Humanity First UK volunteers wearing HF vests during a visit to Kenya

Kenya

Restoring sight, caring for orphans, and bringing clean water and medical camps to communities across the country.

Eye Care, Orphans & Community

From a Gift of Sight programme that restores sight to thousands, to two orphanages, clean water, medical and dental camps, food security and one of our largest Qurbani distributions, our work in Kenya reaches communities through drought, hardship and everyday need.

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2,000+
Eye Patients Screened / Yr
300+
Sight Surgeries / Yr
13,500
Qurbani Beneficiaries
60+
Qurbani Locations
Eye Care

Restoring sight, every year

In partnership with the Lions SightFirst eye hospital, our medical camps screen more than 2,000 patients and perform over 300 sight-restoring surgeries every year.

Healthcare

Medical and dental camps

Local doctors run regular medical and dental camps, including in the Kibera settlement in Nairobi, treating hundreds of patients free of charge each year.

Water & Sanitation

Solar wells and hand pumps

Around five to eight new solar-powered wells and hand pumps go in each year, with work underway to build many more from next year onward.

Food Security

Farming, fish and village mills

We train farmers and provide seeds, fertiliser and fish farming, and install milling machines in villages so communities can process their own harvests.

Community Care

Standing with the most vulnerable

Clothing, food supplies, essential items and aid for people with disabilities reach the most vulnerable, including families hit hardest by drought and other hardship.

Orphan Care

Two orphanages, year-round

Two orphanages receive regular support with food supplies, learning equipment and the everyday essentials that help children grow up cared for.

Born in Nairobi · 2023

Sisters Around the Globe started here

In 2023 a group of women launched Sisters Around the Globe in Nairobi, by women, for women. The pilot tackled period poverty head-on after research showed one in ten girls in Kenya was missing school each month because of her period.

The programme pairs menstrual hygiene education with mental health support, reproductive health counselling and motivational and career talks. The pilot worked, and Sisters Around the Globe has since rolled out across our entire network.

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Sisters Around the Globe group photo, Nairobi
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