ETCO Children Feeding Program
Saturday comes in loud: plastic chairs scraping, someone laughing at the gate, and the smell of something cooking before you even see the pots. Schools are closed, so the numbers are up — more children squeezing onto the benches, more small hands reaching for plates. Visitors step through the door not as spectators but as people who came to do the work with us: scoop, serve, sit with a child for a minute.
This week we had extra reason to breathe easy. The Uebert Angel Foundation and the Faith Work Forum team stood with us in a very practical way — food came in, and non-food essentials too, until our office felt less like paperwork and more like a storeroom of possibility. Boxes lined the corridor; someone tested a ladle against a pot and the sound carried.
That kind of support does not arrive as a speech. It arrives as ugali that will stretch, as beans that will feed another Saturday, as supplies that say someone believes service to people is a blessing worth investing in. We are grateful — and we are already planning how every bag and carton moves out to where it belongs: into children's stomachs and into a community that keeps showing up.
If you have been thinking about giving, whether through M-PESA or by walking in with groceries, this is your invitation: join the next Saturday. Bring a friend. We will find you gloves, a serving spoon, and a child who will remember the day someone looked them in the eye while filling their plate.
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.