Safaricom Foundation is marking 20 years since it was officially launched on 14th August 2003.
Since its inception, the Foundation has invested over KES 5 billion in more than 4,000 community projects, directly impacting over 8 million Kenyans across all 47 counties in education, health, economic empowerment, access to water, environmental conservation, and disaster response.
“In the past two decades, Safaricom Foundation has become one of the biggest enablers of Kenyan communities. Whether through partnering with individuals on small investments that have a big impact or implementing large-scale, long-term programs of nationwide scale, our purpose of transforming lives has always been at the core of the Foundation,” Said Peter Ndegwa, CEO of Safaricom PLC.
To mark the milestone, throughout the month, the Foundation, joined by Safaricom staff, will distribute Mama Packs in select hospitals nationwide to support maternal and newborn care and share food hampers with children’s homes.
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The Foundation will also go across all 47 counties to engage and connect with communities and its stakeholders with different activities, including medical camps, fistula camps, the launch of projects and programmes, and the mentorship of young people in other areas.
“As we celebrate 20 years of transforming lives, we have learned a lot and developed key insights into how we approach philanthropy. One key strategy that has defined our interventions is partnerships with experts in the fields we seek to create impact, and with the communities, we aim to transform. As we look to the future and implement our 2023-2026 strategy, partnerships will remain important in our work as a Foundation,” Said Joseph Ogutu, Chairman of the Safaricom Foundation.
Some of the new interventions set to be launched under the Foundation’s 2023-2026 strategy include digitizing teachers’ training colleges under the education pillar, revamping its maternal health programme to become a comprehensive Reproductive, Maternal, Neo-Natal, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) initiative, and expansion of its Economic Empowerment Programme to include Agribusiness, Ecoprenuership and Enterprise Development.