Greening & Community Projects
We believe that community-driven solutions are the most sustainable in order for young people, their families, and their communities to thrive and break cycles of poverty.
Our Kenyan-led NGO partner are deeply embedded in their communities. For over 20 years, they have run regular focus groups and needs assessments and developed projects tailored by the people closest to the problems.
Community Outreach & Financial Literacy Training
The impact of our flagship Seed of Hope education programme increases exponentially when whole families and communities are empowered with numeracy skills to help them thrive. Each year, 520 parents/guardians of Seed of Hope students (in rural Kitui and Murang’a and informal settlements in Nairobi) are engaged in financial literacy training covering: saving, budgeting, business planning, profit and loss. Many have themselves faced barriers to education, ongoing financial instability, in disaster-prone areas, where the priority is survival.
Parent/guardians also engage in ‘Community Outreach Training’, similar to the student’s wellbeing curriculum on destigmatising mental health awareness, gender equality and Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights, so they can support and encourage their children when they graduate.
Greening Technical and Vocational Education & Training (TVET)
We are recognised as a ‘greening TVET’ institution, integrating environmental sustainability and climate action into our programming. As part of this commitment, an agribusiness and climate change module is taught to Seed of Hope students alongside their vocational studies. As the national and global voices on climate change advocate for better use of the environment to manage issues like food poverty, we are proud to equip students to be better stewards of the environment while also enabling them to be food secure.
Water & Growing Seeds of Hope projects
In January 2026, we celebrated the official launch of a 240m-deep borehole and community water point at the Seed of Hope centre in Kangweni, Kitui county; a semi-arid area affected by drought, crop failure, extreme poverty and food insecurity.
The solar-powered, pumped water provides a reliable source of clean fresh water to students, the local community, as well as on our demonstration farm to train 300 community members per year in ‘agribusiness’ in climate-resilient farming and how to generate increased, year-round income for sustainable livelihoods.
In partnership with the local Ministry of Agriculture, this project replicates the proven agribusiness model at our Seed of Hope Kariti centre in Murang’a County, where the demo farm offsets operating costs, participants report improved food security and incomes, and training is sustainably continued by the community and Ministry.
In the growing season after her agribusiness training, Susan was able to increase her maize production by 200% as well as the food security in her household. She now sells surplus crops and with her increased income, is able to pay for school fees, home improvements and healthcare. She insisted; “we need to get more young people trained in agricultural production since the majority are [out of school and unemployed] yet there’s a lot of potential in the farms”.
Susan, Agribusiness training participant, Kariti
Our Programmes
Seed of Hope
Through our Seed of Hope training programme we provide completely free vocational training, business skills courses and personal support to over 1,000 young people every year.
Scaling Seed of Hope
Explore how we are scaling our training and programmes to impact many more Kenyan young people.