Horse Test

Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps, located in an arid environment in the northern part of Kenya, are host to over 508,033 refugees and asylum seekers, from which more than the half are children. The camps are located in the north-western region of the country, which has the highest levels of poverty and lowest performance indicators relating to access to quality educational opportunities. 84% of the population in Turkana County, and 73% of the population of Garissa County, lives below the poverty line. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the country, schools are closing at each pick outbreak and children do not have tools to follow home-learning. With the provision of solar radio, secondary school children will be able to follow live classes all year long.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. Windle International Kenya manages secondary schools in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps as the lead implementing partner of the UN refugee agency, and runs a range of quality educational programmes and scholarships aimed at improving the educational outcomes and ultimately contributing to the creation of peaceful and durable communities.

Word Forest has created a women’s empowerment group in Kenya called Mothers of The Forest to support women in small rural communities.  In challenging environmental conditions, the women look after their families and work hard to find a living. They have been given little opportunity for education and many have felt socially isolated and disconnected.

They now have weekly meetings that include courses on permaculture, tree husbandry, agroforestry and income generation. They also receive lunch, water and as an innovative way to reforestation, two new tree saplings (mangoes, cashews, moringa), helping them to create their own cropping forest. 

The women can then harvest the crops from the trees, sell any excess creating sustainable livelihoods, and help us by saving the seeds to grow in our nurseries for planting in the future. The trees will also provide shade, a new habitat for wildlife, absorb CO2, clean the air and combat climate change for generations to come.

Your donation will give a fruit or nut tree to each member of our Garashi group. Thank you.

Goats save lives. Kids for Kids lends 5 goats to a family for immediate milk for starving babies and malnourished children. We train the family to look after them, and the little flock grows. What is so fantastic, is that as the flock increases, the goats provide an income for essentials like food, clothes, healthcare and education. Of course the availability of milk and yoghurt in the village benefits the wider community too. After 2 years the family passes on 5 healthy goats to the next family and the miracle continues.

Enabling parents to capture memories forever and write down their thoughts. Including space to write thoughts about them, milestones, general letters and space to write independently.

We offer free therapy sessions for children and young people struggling with various mental health conditions. Your gift will help a child or a young person to get free therapy sessions that can make a lasting impact on their lives.

Our Mission

Deliver quality and accessible mental health services to children and young people on a large scale. 

Our Vision

Build a bright and healthy future for children and young people.

We are a non-profit organization that uses technology to bring the right information and support for the mental health of children and young people.

Why do we do this?

We know how hard it is to find the right information and support at the right time. More than 70% of our team have lived or shared experience of mental health conditions.

We founded Mindsum because we felt there’s a need for an all-in-one solution.

We want to make mental healthcare more accessible to children, young people, and their parents.

How do we do it?

We do this by providing the right information and giving access to the right therapists, as well as dedicating all our profits towards funding therapy for those who cannot afford to pay.

Your donation will protect on average seven acres of rainforest in our most urgent carbon-rich projects, whose protection is vital in the fight against climate change.

And you will be providing a safe haven for countless animals, insects and plants, as tropical rainforests support over 50% of the world’s species, many of which are critically endangered.

The acres you save will also safely store, on average, over 1,000 metric tonnes of CO2e, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change around the world.