Programmes

15 Programmes. Three Pillars. One Shared Future.

We work through three interconnected pillars. Across all three, we use nature-based solutions, community ownership, and strategic partnerships to deliver outcomes that last. Every programme below connects environmental outcomes to economic opportunity.

Pillar 1

Environment

We restore forests and degraded landscapes, protect water catchments, introduce clean energy solutions, and promote physical and mental wellbeing through nature. Our primary geography is the Ngong Forest ecosystem where ecological value and community vulnerability intersect.

Forest Restoration

We plant and nurture indigenous trees across Oloolua, Ngong Hills, and Kibiko Forest blocks. Every seedling is grown in a community nursery, GPS-tracked, and monitored through our M&E system.

Why it matters: When forests disappear, water disappears with them. Restoration rebuilds water catchments, soil health, biodiversity, and carbon stores that communities depend on.

Agroforestry

We work with smallholder farmers to integrate trees into their farmlands, combining food production with forest restoration. Indigenous species are planted alongside crops, improving soil fertility and stabilising water supply.

Why it matters: The boundary between farm and forest is where conservation is won or lost. Agroforestry turns that boundary into a bridge.

Commercial Forestry

We establish community-managed tree nurseries producing quality seedlings for both restoration and sale: a conservation tool, a business, and a source of community pride.

Why it matters: When communities can earn from forests, they protect them instinctively.

Physical & Mental Wellness

We create opportunities for communities and the public to reconnect with nature through wellness activities in Oloolua Forest. The Run for Oloolua is our flagship expression.

Why it matters: People protect what they love. And people love what they experience.

Water Security

We rehabilitate degraded water catchments, construct water pans and boreholes, and support small-scale irrigation. Clean, accessible water is the most immediate return on environmental investment.

Why it matters: Water security is not a nice-to-have. It is the foundation of everything.

Green Energy

We promote clean cooking technologies, solar systems, and low-carbon solutions in communities that currently rely on wood, charcoal, and biomass, reducing pressure on the forests we restore.

Why it matters: Charcoal is Kenya's leading driver of deforestation. Clean energy is conservation by another name.

Pillar 2

Empowerment

We build real economic pathways rooted in conservation. From green enterprise development and food security to youth employment and support for vulnerable groups, ensuring people living alongside Kenya's forests have genuine reasons, and real capacity, to protect them.

Food Security

We train smallholder farmers in climate-smart agricultural practices that increase yields, build drought resilience, and reduce dependence on environmentally harmful farming methods.

Why it matters: A food-secure community is a conservation-secure community.

Green Enterprises

We support individuals and community groups, especially youth and women, to build businesses rooted in the green economy: tree nurseries, eco-tourism, sustainable agriculture, and clean energy distribution.

Why it matters: A green economy is the most durable conservation tool available.

Youth Opportunities

We create structured pathways into the green economy for young Kenyans through internships, training, mentorship, and support for youth-led conservation enterprises.

Why it matters: Young people with opportunity become environmental leaders.

Vulnerable Groups

We design targeted interventions for the people most marginalised by environmental degradation: women, the elderly, people with disabilities, and the most climate-vulnerable households.

Why it matters: Inclusion is not an afterthought in our programmes. It is the design.

Capacity Building

We invest in the skills, governance, and leadership capacity of community organisations (CFAs, farmer groups, youth groups, and women's organisations) so they can sustain programmes independently.

Why it matters: The most important thing we can leave behind is not infrastructure. It is capability.

Pillar 3

Education

We invest in young people. Through school support, green scholarships, environmental education programmes, and talent development, we ensure that conservation is not just taught as a concept and lived as a commitment.

Supporting New Kids

We identify children in under-resourced communities adjacent to forests who are at risk of dropping out due to economic hardship, and invest in keeping them in education.

Why it matters: An educated child in a forest community grows into a forest steward.

Green Scholarships

We award scholarships to young Kenyans pursuing higher education in environmental science, conservation, forestry, green energy, and sustainable agriculture.

Why it matters: Kenya needs environmental professionals. We are investing in them now.

Environmental Lessons

We deliver structured environmental education sessions in partner schools: lesson materials, teacher training, environmental clubs, and field visits, making conservation part of everyday learning.

Why it matters: Environmental education in schools is the most cost-effective conservation investment available.

Nurturing Talents

We find young people with gifts in sport, science, the arts, and leadership, and create pathways to develop those gifts in a conservation context. The Run for Oloolua is the most visible expression.

Why it matters: Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not.

Support Our Programmes

Every act of support helps us restore more forest, empower more communities, and educate more young Kenyans.

Partner With Us Join the Run