About Us
Kenya Aid Programme was officially established in 2010 after the outbreak of post-election violence in early 2008. The desire to work in Kenya started in 2008 after news of the violence and turmoil speading throughout the country (particularly the Rift Valley) hit our television screens and newspapers. A small group of people started to work with a mandate to relieve the hardship and distress of persons in need of humanitarian support in Kenya. As a result Kenya Aid Programme began. The charity is now working with a number of ongoing educational and structural projects.
At the time the charity was founded, over 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were centred throughout Nairobi and the Rift Valley Province, the largest of Kenya’s 8 provinces. An obvious and immediate area of disruption was evident in the town of Eldoret (310km north of Nairobi), where the Eldoret Showground displacement camp became home to over 20,000 displaced Kenyans.
Teams from Kenya Aid Programme visited Kenya twice in 2009, and again in early and mid 2010, to establish key relationships and begin the charities’ work on the ground. In Nairobi, Eldoret and Kibugat the charity was able to verify the authenticity of a number of link projects and beneficiaries going forward. We have many more projects to come in the year 2011 and are working hard to lift them off the ground at our base camp here in Tunbridge Wells and then our projects will be taken over to Kenya and put into place.
Central to our efforts is a schools partnership scheme whereby we are able to collect, transport and deliver as much surplus equipment as possible from schools and offices in the UK to recipient schools in Kenya.