Enkereri, Maasai Mara
On their first visit to the Maasai Mara, GIFT’s founders met community elders. Together they agreed that a school was needed. GIFT contributed to the building and its resources, and later to further classrooms. GIFT also trained a local teacher, bought textbooks for the Kenyan curriculum in the local language, and pays two teachers’ salaries each year. Supporters who visited in 2009 saw how the school had grown.
KICOSHEP, Kibera, Nairobi
In 2001 GIFT’s first partnership was with the Kibera Community Self-help Project, an HIV/AIDS clinic and school for orphans in Nairobi. GIFT funded desks, chairs and science equipment. It also paid for a day at Nairobi National Park, where for many of the children it was the first time they had seen the wildlife their country is famous for.
Kakuyuni School for the Deaf, coast
GIFT has supported Kakuyuni for many years. Support has included hardship help for individual students and first-aid kits, delivered in October 2024. One student was supported all the way through primary school and then four years of secondary school at a school with a deaf unit. School leavers now train and work at GIFT’s tailoring enterprise.
Other schools
GIFT has also supported Bush Bells, Olepoipoi and Gede Special School.
