GIFT sponsors the Ilamaiyo Bee Run
A 10 km race in Laikipia for World Bee Day, raising support for local students' running clubs.
News
News from the projects
Updates from Kenya and from our supporters at home.
Mother & Baby project moves into community hands
A cattle herd now pays for maternity care in a Transmara village, so the project no longer depends on GIFT.
Two more children helped by cleft surgery
Two babies from a remote village in northern Kenya travelled to Nairobi for surgery, with a caregiver and a translator alongside their mothers.
Clean cooking for 90 Maasai households
Gas cookers, with safety training, replaced smoky wood fires in 90 homes at Enkereri.
Water arrives in Laikipia
A small dam, a solar pump and a 40,000-litre tank now supply about 100 people and the botanical garden near Il Polei.
Our first cleft palate surgery
Four years after our cleft fund opened, a nine-month-old boy had his operation and was home for Christmas Eve.
Supporters' trip, October 2024
Supporters from Canberra and Ireland joined Janet for school visits, a mangrove apiary, a beekeeping consultation and a vote that changed the Mother & Baby project.
Back in Kenya after four years
Our first visit since December 2019 took in a nearly finished Honey Centre, a new delivery couch for a Maasai clinic and a community gathering of more than 70 people.
Kenya coronavirus update
Lockdown, locusts and floods hit Kenya in 2020. Because GIFT budgets a year ahead, its projects kept going.
Small grants, real change
Every gift goes to projects that communities have chosen and run themselves.