SHOFCO Launches Strategy to Create Self-Sustaining Model for Community-Led Slum Development
-Today, I am thrilled to share that philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott and educator Dan Jewett have announced…
SHOFCO Library User Comes Second in 2020 KCSE
-When Kenya’s Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha was announcing the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Education (KCSE) results,…
How do transport buses reflect the health of a community?
-Early Saturday morning, the pristine UN blue and white-colored buses rolled through Kibera, Kenya, one of Africa’s largest…
Empowering Entrepreneurs in Kenya’s Urban Slums
-Irene had been running her business for a few years in Mathare urban slum before she enrolled in…
SHOFCO to Host Inaugural World Communities Forum
-Chelsea Clinton, Darren Walker and Ambassador Samantha Power join ‘localisation revolution’ at the inaugural World Communities Forum to…
CNN International – featuring Kennedy Odede of SHOFCO
-Click on this link to watch CNN International featuring Kennedy Odede of SHOFCO
Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
-In a world far removed from zoom classes and online learning, SHOFCO’s teachers and care workers at the…
Employability training opened my eyes to start seeing business ideas in my environment
-Halima Shabani, joined SHOFCO’s employability program in 2017. She says: “I gained a lot of skills including the…
SHOFCO and the Mastercard Foundation to provide COVID-19 support to 1.35 million people living in urban slums in Kenya
-SHOFCO and the Mastercard Foundation have launched a partnership under the Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program…
Kennedy Odede: Wealthy nations in ‘dangerous competition’ to own coronavirus vaccine
-Recently, Kennedy Odede spoke to Politico on COVID-19, saying access to a coronavirus vaccine is important for everyone,…
