Mid-Year Momentum: How Your Support Is Changing Lives in 2025
- Kenya Works
- Jul 30
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 30
💜 The Lives You’ve Helped Transform
As we cross the midpoint of 2025, we pause with deep gratitude to reflect on what your support has already made possible—and to share why your continued generosity is needed now more than ever.
With your help, we have reached so many with life-changing programs. Here's a snapshot of what we've done so far:
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Provided 17,519 nights of shelter and 70,076 plates of food at our shelter, while building plans for each child to return to a family setting
Reached an average of 1500 children and 700+ families with a daily meal and connected services directly tackling hunger and family instability
Equipped 27,621 school girls with our Makini Pad reusable sanitary pad kits, helping them reclaim 662,904 days of school
Distributed 7500 Boxers for Boys, inviting boys to become allies in building a period-friendly world
Supported nearly 900 young people attending school through our education sponsorship program this year, with vast majority meeting academic requirements
Ensured 2,630 children are receiving a healthy daily meal through our school feeding initiative
Activated 1,800 grassroots leaders and parents to combat gender-based violence and promote children’s rights, fostering safer communities
This is what happens when compassion meets action!
Community Needs: Why Your Support is Vital Now
The challenges:
Food insecurity is on the rise
In the the last decade, Kenya has lost many of the gains it made in eradicating poverty since the start of the century.
Poverty rates are once again on the rise, exceeding levels from a decade ago.
The global pandemic and resulting global inflation alongside climate-related flooding and drought cycles are increasingly hurting the most vulnerable and food insecure.
Petrol prices are driving up food costs while new taxes are decreasing household's purchasing power, especially for the most vulnerable.
Former lifelines and aid programs are being defunded
Communities served by Kenya Works face new vulnerabilities as global power structures shift, direct aid ends and development projects are abandoned.
The abrupt and significant reduction in USAID funding has created a multifaceted crisis in Kenya, with far-reaching consequences for healthcare, humanitarian efforts and the country's overall development trajectory.
Fuel Opportunity
Kenya Works is calling on our network to join us in this mid-year funding effort to help sustain life-changing programs and fuel community-driven progress across Kenya. We’re proud of the progress we've made thus far—but there is more to be done!
Donate today to sustain critical programs providing the security of food and shelter, menstrual empowerment, knowledge through education and equality through community training!
✨ Partner with us to pioneer holistic solutions and scale proven, community-led models
✨ Join our circle of monthly givers and help us plan for ongoing stability
Your mid-year gift will directly fund opportunity development solutions in four foundational pillars:
Shelter Works: Rapid safety assessment, holistic care, and daily nutrition for all shelter children. Swift family reunification and robust aftercare yield lasting impact.
Education Works: School advancement rates among sponsored students remain high, powered by daily meals, mentorship, digital literacy, and expanded library and smart farming initiatives.
Menstrual Health & Hygiene (MHH) Works: Stigma-breaking outreach, boy-engagement, and dignity kit distribution have virtually eliminated period absenteeism among beneficiaries, with new partnerships helping us scale innovation and access.
Community Works: Local leaders and parents trained in our behavior change workshops become equipped to champion children’s rights and end gender-based violence building sustainable grassroots action plans and protection networks.
Get Involved!
Every gift is a partnership in creating opportunity, dignity and hope for Kenya’s most vulnerable.