Across Kenya
Teacher training
Workshops in Education for Sustainable Development for more than 500 teachers, from Western Kenya to the coast.
Our work
Projects chosen by communities, not for them
Every GIFT project starts with a conversation. Communities tell us what they need, and we fund and train until the project can stand on its own. We aim for that within five years.
Education & schools
Teacher training, school building and bursaries that open doors to college and work.
Mara, Nairobi, Laikipia & coast
Schools we've supported
Classrooms, desks, textbooks, teachers' salaries and first-aid kits, from GIFT's first Maasai school to a school for deaf children on the coast.
Coast, Mara & Laikipia
Bursaries & skills
School and college fees, degrees, driving licences and practical training that lead to real jobs.
Health & wellbeing
Safer births, cleft surgery, clean cooking, clean water and food when it is needed most.
Maasai Mara (Transmara)
Mother & Baby project
Safer births for Maasai mothers, through clinic transport, vaccinations, mosquito nets and food. Since 2025 the project has been run and funded by the community itself.
Nairobi & northern Kenya
Cleft lip & palate surgery
Life-changing surgery for babies born with a cleft lip or palate, with travel, translation and aftercare included.
Maasai Mara (Enkereri)
Clean cooking
Gas cookers for 90 Maasai households cut smoke in homes, protect the forest and give children time for breakfast before school.
Laikipia & Maasai Mara
Clean water
A small dam, a solar pump and a 40,000-litre tank for about 100 people in Laikipia, and piped water in progress in the Mara.
Ngong (Kajiado) & Mombasa
Food & emergency support
Food for elders and young children, a year of nutritious meals for girls at a safe house, and small grants when illness strikes.
Livelihoods & enterprise
Beekeeping, tailoring, cattle and small businesses that communities own and run.
Gede (coast) & Laikipia
Beekeeping & the Honey Centre
GIFT's longest-running enterprise. It began with hives and training, and now includes a community-owned Honey Centre, a mangrove apiary and beekeepers training other beekeepers.
Gede (coast)
Tailoring for deaf school leavers
Smart Gift Fashion Studio & Accessories gives school leavers from Kakuyuni School for the Deaf skilled, paid work.
Maasai Mara & Ngong
Women's groups & cattle
Cattle owned by women's self-help groups. Selling cattle rebuilds the herd, and the remaining profit pays for education and health.
Gede (coast)Past project
Ujumula craft enterprise
Premises and office equipment that let young people earn from crafts made from natural and recycled materials, and from office services.
Gede (coast) & Laikipia
Small enterprises
A maize mill, a solar-chilled village shop and a poultry project, each paying its own way and creating jobs.
Environment & food security
Tree nurseries, woodlots, a botanical garden and better use of small plots.
Embu, Laikipia, Mara & Gede
Trees & woodlots
Tree nurseries, community woodlots and school planting days. The trees restore land and, after about five years, give a sustainable crop.
Laikipia North (Il Polei)
Laikipia botanical garden
A community garden protecting endangered indigenous and medicinal plants, now behind an elephant fence and watered from a new dam.
Maasai Mara & coast
Farming & trench gardens
Composting, trench gardens and better use of small plots, so families can grow more varied food on their own land.
Across Kenya
From the Maasai Mara to the Indian Ocean, GIFT works with communities in eight areas of Kenya.
Where we work
- Western Kenya
Teacher training - Maasai Mara & Transmara
Mother & Baby, clean cooking, water, school - Laikipia North
Botanical garden, water, beekeeping, poultry - Embu
Tree planting - Nairobi
KICOSHEP school, cleft surgery - Ngong & Kajiado
Food support, girls’ safe house - Gede & the Kilifi coast
Honey Centre, tailoring, woodlots - Mombasa
Humanitarian Fund
Small grants, real change
Every gift goes to projects that communities have chosen and run themselves.