For 43 years, 83-year-old Hellen lived in a cramped, 10×10-foot shack in Kibera—one of Africa’s largest informal settlements. But for Hellen, the lack of plumbing or electricity wasn’t the hardest part. It was the isolation. Following the tragic loss of her two children in infancy, and the subsequent death of…
On Wednesday 13th May, 9 of the 11 CRED partners gathered at central location in Nairobi to travel together to the Links Africa Hub in Embu district in the foothills of Mount Kenya for 3 days of fellowship, learning, building relationships, deepening friendships and journeying together. Those who were there…
By K Dudi, IDAK Foundation Carren Anyango is a woman whose quiet strength has anchored her through nearly five decades of life in Nairobi. At 82 years old, her story is a testament to unwavering resilience—a life lived on the front lines of Nairobi’s informal economy, marked by hard…
IDAK has been supporting Wasare primary and junior secondary school for a year now, running a pilot feeding programme for all the students. We’ve reported on the success of this in previous blogs, including how it enables Kindergarten pupils to attend school for a whole day, and also how it…
By Kenyanito Dudi, IDAK Foundation In the heart of Katwekera, a bustling and densely populated area within Nairobi’s Kibera slum, lives Winda Anoro. Winda is a portrait of resilience—a devoted mother and wife whose entrepreneurial journey began with nothing more than a deep need to provide and a meager KSh…
At Wasare school in rural Kenya, CRED Partner IDAK Foundation has supported the implementation of a feeding programme, such that all the children are able to get a hot meal in the middle of each day. For some students, this meal is the difference between being able to complete a…
CRED Partner IDAK have been supporting Wasare school to deliver a lunchtime meal programme for all the students. As a result, all of the students can now remain at school and get a good meal in the middle of the day, rather than having to go home, or go without.…
written by Kenyanito Dudi, IDAK Founder and Director During a recent visit to the Obotch area of Nyalenda in a sprawling informal settlement of Kisumu City, we met with “Dinah”, a determined single mother raising her two-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter under difficult circumstances. Dinah lives in a small corrugated…
*name chosen to protect identity One of the ways in which CRED’s Kenyan partner I Dream Again (IDAK) helps young people realise their dreams is through provision of bursaries for high school education, when the young person is living in conditions that make self-funding an impossibility. Samuel is one such…
*name chosen to protect identity One of the ways in which CRED’s Kenyan partner I Dream Again (IDAK) helps young people realise their dreams is through provision of bursaries for high school education, when the young person is living in conditions that make self-funding an impossibility. Natalia is one such…
