The Crisis That Created Us
Korogocho, home to over 180,000 people, was one of Nairobi’s most densely populated settlements. In 2001, gang violence and a culture of silence left women and girls paying the highest price.
In 2001, young people responded with a radical act: the first Miss Koch Beauty Pageant — “Never say Die, Yes We Can.” A pageant became a movement.
Shaping Our Commitment
Our Approach
We identify needs through community assessment. We fund through donors and partnerships. We strengthen together through implementation and monitoring. We build networks for sustainability and scale.
Our Mission
To empower young people through education, nurturing talents, mentorship, and life-skills for their sustained social well-being.
Our Vision
Transforming lives by empowering minds.
Twenty-Five Years, By the Numbers
Scholarships funded, families fed, a Material Recovery Facility built with the community. Numbers alone don’t build trust. These do.
Contributing to the UN 2030 Agenda
In pursuit of our mandate, we set out to feed hungry families, keep girls in school, and give Korogocho’s waste pickers dignified work. As a byproduct of that pursuit, we found ourselves in alignment with seven of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Improving social and economic development across Korogocho.
8,000+ households fed during COVID-19.
Reproductive and mental health work, including a pilot with Aga Khan University.
Scholarships and mentoring for 300+ students.
Protecting and empowering girls and women, our purpose since 2001.
Training that leads to income, from DJ Academy to Ajira Digital.
Delivered with UN-Habitat, AICS, APHRC, UNFPA and others.
Our Partners
Programmes delivered alongside UN agencies, research institutions and foundations.
What Your Support Builds
Programmes running now in Korogocho include scholarships, safe spaces for adolescent mothers and Korogocho’s first Material Recovery Facility.
Stay Close to the Work
Twenty-five years in, MKK is still building. Get the next chapter as it happens.