About Us
Kibwezi Center for Sustainability (KCS) is a grassroot non-for-Profit organization involved in promoting environment conservation, gender balance, access to education, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and public health care services with an aim of increasing socio-economic empowerment, improving food security and safety, promoting equality and equity, climate change resilience, and improving ecological balance, thus achieving sustainable development.
KCS provides a holistic gender-sensitive approach of a fully integrated three-pronged solution that combines social, environmental and economic aspects of promoting sustainable development in line with the UN sustainable development goals agenda of 2030, AU agenda 2063, Kenya’s Vision 2030 and the National Development Plan of Kenya.
KCS has an affiliate voluntary group of members under the name Kibwezi Wellwishers, which has three chapters namely: Coast, Nairobi Metropolitan and Highway chapters, that organize and conduct charity events in line with KCS objectives. Further, KCS partners with community members, local government, corporates, sponsors and donors to successfully implement projects and hold impactful events.
Target population
KCS operates within the Counties of Makueni, Kitui, Machakos, Nairobi and Mombasa. Our targets populations are rural communities that are constrained socially, culturally and economically mainly needy students and girls, whom are exposed to abuse, rape, early pregnancies, forced/early marriages and period poverty, thus dropping out of school and denied their freedom of choice and expression.
Vision, Mission and Values
Mission
To provide solutions through practical environmental, health, education programmes, research, capacity building for enhanced livelihoods
Vision
A healthy, educated and environmentally sustainable society responding to the livelihood needs of the vulnerable communities and threatened environment
Values
1. Transparency
2. Accountability
3. Volunteerism
4. Inclusivity
5. Self and community growth
6. Professionalism with integrity
objectives and principles
OBJECTIVES
• To promote education for vulnerable and maginalized children and youth through scholarships, mentorship, technical trainings and psychosocial support sessions and capacity building
• To conserve the environment through tree planting programmes, seedballs broadcasting, garbage cleanups, and environmental advocacy
• To advocate for a healthy society through health awareness and education, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH programmes) medical and veterinary camps, fight against period poverty and shame, mental health awareness, domestic violence, sexual and drug abuse awareness
• To promote socio-economic development through capacity-building on sustainable climate-smart farming systems, marketing and entrepreneurship, renewable energy, value-chain management, food production systems, best farm management practices.
PRINCIPLES
KCS shall be governed according to the following principles:
- Transparency, honesty and accountability
- Love and respect for nature and environmental
- Volunteerism, self and community empowerment
- Inclusiveness and respect for human dignity
- Professionalism with integrity
OUR RECENT ACTIVITIES
Nairobi Metropolitan Chapter Celebrating International Women’s Day at Machakos Women’s Prison
Nairobi Metropolitan Chapter on 11/03/2023 visited the Machakos Women’s Prison to celebrate them as we commemorate International Women’s Day. The happiness in their faces after receiving the assorted package of gifts brought to them affirms our desire to keep doing good and touching lives of the less fortunate in our society. The importance of prison […]
Seedballs broadcasting and tree planting at Athi River riparian – Nairobi
Kibwezi Center for Sustainability in partnership with My Green Institution and Kaiti Greening Champions where able to broadcast 125,000 seedballs and planted 40 tree seedlings along Athi River (riparian) in Nairobi. We appreciate Bolt and SeedballsKenya for their support with #SeedBolts A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.” – Justice Oliver […]
Long weekend Kinyambu event update – 08/10/2022
The event was started at noon by distributing tree seedballs and seedlings to the residents of Kinyambu, followed by garbage collection which helps in saving the environment from the toxic effects of the inorganic and biodegradable elements present in the waste reducing water contamination, soil pollution, and air contamination and improving the environmental aesthetic value. […]
OUR TEAM
Dr. Sonnia Nzilani Musyoka -Founder & Chairperson
Rachael Mwikali Munyao - Secretary
STEPHEN MWONGELA - Treasurer
ROBERT MUTHAMI - Board Member
KELVIN MWENDWA
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Active Volunteers
Land Rehabilitated
Community Members Engaged
Children Supported
Our Voluntarism, our Activities, our Love
Members support activities financially and volunteer to support events and projects as we share love with the less fortunate while creating sustainable environment.