A good day for Githeri (Traditional Nutritious Meal)
Steam rose from the pots and the kitchen smelled like childhood — maize and beans slow-cooked until the edges soften and the flavour deepens. Githeri is not fancy food; it is honest food, the kind that fills a stomach without pretending to be something imported.
Every Saturday our children feeding programme opens its doors, and today was githeri day. Children lined up with their plates; youth and elders joined too, because hunger does not respect age brackets. Someone joked that the beans were counting themselves; someone else said grace like they meant it.
We are feeding more than 350 children weekly, alongside elders and young people who need a steady place to belong. That only happens because people send help — cash on M-PESA, sacks from a church, a business clearing its storeroom. It is not charity as performance; it is food moving from generosity to a spoon.
If you want to sponsor a Saturday — even a partial one — reach out. We will tell you exactly what a week costs in KSh terms, what we bought, and what remained. Transparency is part of respect.
Engaging Children through Feeding Program
Thanks to Chris and Jayne, ETCO had a warm feeding program for children at our new office—bringing joy, a good meal, and community together in Kibera.
Project Site Visit by Rotary Club of IPSWICH (USA) and Kikuyu (Kenya)
It was a great and engaging day of partnership and learning as we hosted the International Rotary Club of IPSWICH team, led by Environmental Lawyer Chris and his wife, Jane, Former President of Rotary Club of Kikuyu Hon. George Ngotho and Rotarian Yumbya for a visit to our project implementation sites. The visit provided an opportunity to review the project areas on the ground, discuss implementation priorities, and strengthen our shared commitment to sustainable environmental and community development. We also had the opportunity to visit the Nairobi Rivers Commission (NRC), where we were hosted by Commissioner Dr. Loice Kipkorir, a member of the Ngong River Committee. We explored opportunities to strengthen collaboration and align our work with the Nairobi Rivers Commission's Restoration Framework.
Community Capacity Building Training
We are currently participating in the ongoing PROVE (Public Space Governance Research, Observation, Validation and Experimentation) Pilot Programme, a four-month initiative by Public Space Networks (PSN) bringing together 11 community groups from Kamukunji and Korogocho. The programme focuses on strengthening community organizations’ capacity to manage, protect and improve public spaces as well as restoring rivers and it's ecosystems. The ongoing capacity-building training is helping CBOs and community organizations better understand the connection between public spaces, river restoration and ecosystem conservation, while exploring practical approaches and stronger collaboration among communities, government agencies, development partners and other stakeholders.