When our preschool started in 2007, we began in a village of the Mathare slum called Jangwani. It means "Desert" in Swahili. When it came time to name our school, our teachers chose Mawewa, which is an old Swahili word that roughly translates to "Clean Clear Water." Similarly, we hope that our students will experience the refreshing, transforming, and empowering effect of Living Water through their time with us.

Water is one of our most foundational needs and something that can have a transformational effect on a community. It is with immense joy that we share eduKenya’s next sustainability project, a 15-acre farm in Mitaboni, Kenya that will be irrigated by a borehole well supported by The Well Coffeehouse, a Nashville-based nonprofit coffeehouse that supports water projects in like-minded organizations.

In the short term, our team will be able to grow our own food and be less reliant on the effects of international markets. Long term, our future high school students will enjoy clean, abundant water.

Liking drilling 240m down, we hope this project will likewise ensure deep, transformational education.

The property is east of Nairobi and will eventually be the permanent home of eduKenya’s Chelezo High School. As part of eduKenya’s unique focus on sustainability, we began dreaming of ways to make an impact on our students today. With drawings for our future high school, we recognized that we could build the necessary infrastructure for a farm today that will serve the long-term good of the property.

All we needed was the right partner to enter the journey.

The Well’s mission is turning coffee into water, and made possible by the many friends that chose to visit their cafes. Each transaction added up, and will now have eternal impact. Our partnership will be their 77th project.

Our Kenya Director of Development, Stella, is leading this project on the ground. You can follow along with us by visiting eduKenya.

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