Helping communities to help themselves

Real Impact is a Kenyan Non-Governmental Organisation that helps communities grow food. We work in and around Thika, about 50km from Nairobi, and our mission is to support community groups in setting up kitchen gardens to grow their own vegetables. This may sound a modest objective but its effect can be dramatic in a country where 32% of the population is undernourished (FAO), and the government urgently seek to reduce rural to urban migration.

Key to the concept is that it creates sustainable knowledge among the participants; the benefits we seek are self-reliance, knowledge and empowerment, tribe and gender neutral; the by-product is food.

We call this the Positive Kitchen Garden. Find out more...