About us ...
The Footsteps for Africa is a UK based non-profit organisation that strives to enable children in Kenya to reach their potential as individuals and in the community by helping them to become healthy, educated, self-sustaining and contributing members of their communities:

In 2004 we launched the Footsteps Cyber café in Nairobi. This enterprise:

  • generates profits locally to be distributed to various social projects in Kenya
  • provides a secure income to its employees

In 2005 we started a "long-distance adoption" programme by connecting local children to UK Sponsoring families. Through this programme Footsteps:

  • improves the educational environment of children and families
  • supports school building projects
  • Makes sure the Kenyan family has enough food to feed the child
  • funds water projects and income generating programmes

Since 2006, we have run our volunteer programme - the Rafiki programme. The aims of this programme are:

  • to broaden the experience of the children and the UK based volunteers alike
  • to introduce new sports, arts and life skills to the children
  • to provide some understanding to the children of the world outside their village
  • to provide the volunteers with a glimpse of the situation faced by 80% of the planet

For more information about the 2007 programme see Rafiki 2007 report and the 2007 photo gallery. The 2006 gallery of photos, Michael's diary and the video (right) are from 2006. To see the video in larger size click here.

In November 2008, Footsteps opened its first medical centre, in the village of Katito near Lake Victoria. The centre will provide comprehensive care in the field of HIV/AIDS. It is already receiving hundreds of visitors who are discovering their HIV status. Those who are positive are able to access free drugs at the centre.

See here for more details.

Click here to read about our new projects.

In 2009, we will take another group of volunteers to Kenya.