1.  Grace Clean Energy & Water Limited (GCEWL) – Kenya & Uganda

Founded in March 2022, Grace Clean Energy & Water Limited (GCEWL) is a true social impact company that provides access to affordable, safe drinking water and clean energy to people living in both urban and rural areas.
The Company designs, builds and sells high-quality robust water purifiers,  solar-powered systems and back up power sets with genuine parts imported from North America and Europe.

GCEWL Kenya, a new sister company, will commence its operations in Nairobi by late September 2023.  The Company plans to hire and train  local youths (between 22 and 35 years old)  – both women and men – as salespersons, customer service reps, technicians, electricians, and plumbers  as well as freelancers. As a social impact company, job creation is a key objective to make empowerment lasting and successful.

SDGs:  6, 7 and 8

2. Men and Traditions Against Aids (“MTAA”) – Kenya

Men and Traditions Against AIDS (MTAA) is a small-scale project carried out in eight villages in West Kenya. MTAA, an NGO since 2012, was founded by Mrs. Gertrude Lawrence and Mr. James Wambani.

MTAA informs village chiefs and village elders (normally male) about the traditions that promote the transmission of the disease. It is important to include these village chiefs and elders in any solution since they are highly respected and function as keepers of traditions. Working together with these chiefs and elders, MTAA approaches sexually active men and women who run the risk of becoming infected. Behavior change can reduce this risk significantly.

With a very generous contribution by MTAA Netherlands, a resource center and office space was built during the last quarter of 2019.  The resource center is primarily used to hold critical workshops carried out by MTAA to its members who include adolescents with their respective caregivers, young couples, widows, HIV discordant couples and old men. An average of 1,000 people attend these workshops each year. These workshops, held in April, August and December of each year, are essential since they help MTAA closely monitor all participants so as to improve their drug adherence and academic performance.  These very important and effective workshops have yielded a significant drop in HIV/AID infections since their inception.

To date, Grace Impact has provided over five (5) grants (in 2017 through 2023) to MTAA in Kenya and continues to collaborate with MTAA Netherlands.

Grace Impact is also sponsoring two HIV positive young boys presently studying at a local boarding school.  The two boys, Brian and Peter, are enjoying their classes and new classmate and have achieved very good grades.

MTAA Kenya also partners with Amref Health Africa, KANCO and APHIA PLUS among others.

SDGs: 3 , 4, 10 and 17

3. Starehe Girls School – Kenya

Starehe Girls’ Centre is a National Public Secondary School, located near Nairobi Town, Roysambu Constituency in Nairobi County. Starehe Girls Centre is a national boarding school that offers secondary education to financially disadvantaged girls from all Counties of Kenya. The school was founded in January 2005 as a charitable institution. It emulates the spirit of the much renowned Starehe Boys Centre. It caters for all the girls academic and social needs.

Starehe Girls Centre was founded on the principles and ethos of the Starehe Boys Centre, collectively known as The Starehe Way. The School motto: Our Education, Our Strength (Elimu Yetu, Nguvu Yetu) reflects the spirit of academic excellence that permeates the culture of the Centre. The founders of Starehe Girls Centre set out, not merely to provide food, clothing and protection to girls in need, but to restore in them the self-confidence and self-respect so often injured by earlier misfortune in life and to provide them with a sound education to serve them well an increasingly competitive world.

In 2022, Grace Impact donated the annual tuition fees to sponsor two girls at the Starehe Girls Centre.  The Starehe Girls Centre has been selected as a recipient of a Good Water Program grant.

4. Higher Education Grants

Together with local donors in Nairobi, Grace Impact is providing tuition and accommodation grants to two students to study for Bachelor of Education degrees at Kiriri Womens’ University of Science & Technology (Nairobi, Kenya) and Laikipia University (Laikipia, Kenya). The students, Jane and Daniel are the oldest children of a needy family with 10 children in Uashin Gishu County (Kenya). They have just completed their first-year exams in which they performed very well. Through this locally co-funded project, we expect that the students will help life their family out of poverty once they find gainful employment.