We believe that behavioral change is the key to the future
Our Story
Welcome, dear supporters on and learn more about us.
Let me tell you about our story and how we empower people in marginalized groups. It all started with a young woman named Anita Soina, who has always been passionate about creating a better world.
She came from the Maasai community, where she witnessed firsthand the impact of climate change on our environment and resources. She knew she had to act.
Our Inspiring Beginnings
The Soina Foundation journey begun by Anita teaching herself about climate issues and how they were affecting her community.
She realized that the Maasai, who rely on livestock for their livelihoods, were being hit especially hard by droughts and other environmental challenges. She knew that she had to find a way to help. So she started advocating for climate action and environmental conservation.
This was the beginning!
Advocacy
Today, the organization advocates for education, gender equality, WASH, and food security. For people in marginalized groups like ours to overcome many challenges to achieve their goals, empowering people through behavioral change was the key to making a difference.
About Us Stepping Forward to Serve Humanity
Today, the Soina Foundation works tirelessly to promote behavioral change through education, advocacy, and awareness campaigns. The priority is provision of resources and support to grassroots community leaders and victims, helping them to tackle the challenges facing our communities, from education gaps and inequality to women’s rights, WASH, FGM, food insecurity, and climate change.
Are you inspired to join us creating a better world for all?
What Shapes Our About Us
1 in 13 rural dwellers live in extreme poverty
5.4 million Kenyans at risk of food and water insecurity due to drought conditions.
~ Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)
Only 30% of students from marginalized communities complete secondary school in Kenya.
~ UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS)
Only 22% of women in Kenya are employed in the formal sector, compared to 36% of men.
~ World Bank (WB)
Only 43% of people in rural Kenya have access to improved sanitation facilities.
~ United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Climate change could reduce crop yields in Kenya by up to 20% by 2050.
~ International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Who We Are
The Soina Foundation is a non-profit, charitable and apolitical organisation duly registered under law in the Republic of Kenya whose foundational commitment is to to empower and uplift marginalized communities in Kajiado, Kenya, by addressing key challenges such as education disparities, gender inequalities, access to clean water and sanitation, FGM eradication, food security, and climate change impacts.
The above-mentioned Foundational Commitment is premised on the urgent, pressing, dignified and moral need to build an unbiased society for all to thrive and take advantage of the opportunities that education presents.
The Soina Foundation acknowledges that for far too long, children and the vulnerable groups have been unfairly discriminated against in terms of access to good quality education as well as other societal issues. Consequently, their economic potential remains untapped and the vicious circle of poverty keeps ticking.
Why Us
Are you concerned about the devastating effects of pressing societal issues such as education gap, inequality, women’s rights, WASH, FGM, food insecurity, and climate change? It’s time for a change.
Between March and June of 2023, due to drought conditions, 5.4 million Kenyans faced the risk of not having enough food and water. Sadly, the drought already claimed the lives of almost 2.5 million livestock and has been deemed the worst in 40 years. The situation is dire, and we must take action now.
That’s where behavioral change comes in. At our organization, we believe in empowering people to solve pressing social issues. We work tirelessly to promote behavioral change through education, advocacy, and awareness campaigns.
By providing communities with the information and resources they need to make a difference, we can pave the way for a better tomorrow.
You can make a difference, too.
Join us in our mission to empower 60% of people in marginalized communities not involved in decision making by 2027 and create positive change by tackling their most pressing issues head-on.
Whether it’s reducing the education gap, promoting equality, protecting women’s rights, improving WASH, ending FGM, combating food insecurity, or fighting climate change, we hold the belief that behavioral change is the crucial element in building a brighter future.
Core Values About Us
Our ethos at the Soina Foundation encapsulate what we are all about and what we choose to focus on as an organization, even as we grow and scale.
What is the common goal about us?
The principles and moral standards that our foundation uphold are like a compass that points the team in the right direction.
For more details of our cultural cornerstone, take a look at our mission and vision.
Empathy
is at the heart of everything we do, and it drives us to create meaningful change in the world.
Responsiveness
leads us to listen closely to the needs among most-at-risk populations and work proactively to deliver effective solutions that exceed expectations.
Resilience
recognizing that behavioral change is not an overnight process but a journey that requires commitment and perseverance for at least 12 months to achieve the best results
Impact
5
YEARS OF
EXPERIENCE
700+
selfless
Volunteers
3
locations
worldwide
TRANSFORMED
Our Team
You can always count on us to be there when you need us most.
Anita Soina
Director
Evelyn Simaloi
Community Outreach
Leonard Moipel
Community Outreach
Shadrack Kipkorir
Director
Jennifer Wangui
Project Manager
Festus Orina
Director
Brian Abraham
Production and Story Telling
I believe that the only qualification you need to conserve the environment is the fact that you live on this planet.
Founder Anita Soina
Going Forward
Reach out & help
Help us realize our milestone of stimulating behavioral change to 8.9 million people from rural communities in extreme poverty by 2027