‘Darasa’
means class or classroom in Swahili
‘Kenya has one of the youngest populations in the world and with an extensive rural population, this makes the provision of adequate facilities for education challenging.
How We Help
Darasa Initiative Limited is an Australian-registered charitable organisation established solely to support impoverished, malnourished, distressed, and underprivileged school children in the Republic of Kenya. We provide practical, sustainable, and locally-driven solutions to remove the barriers that prevent vulnerable children from accessing education — such as poverty, poor school infrastructure, inadequate hygiene, and hunger.
We are working to provide bright futures
We focus on schools that serve disadvantaged children aged 6-19 years old facing extreme levels of need. Beneficiaries are selected based on the following criteria:
Schools located in rural or underserved areas with high poverty levels;
Evidence of unsafe, unsanitary, or unusable infrastructure that prevents students from learning safely;
A student body consisting largely of impoverished, malnourished, or distressed children;
Inability of the school or community to fund improvements independently.
We work with Generous (a Kenya/UK charity), local authorities and the school community of teachers, board and parents to carry out on-site inspections, interviews, and sometimes satellite verification to determine the urgency of need. No formal application from children or parents is required—the aid is delivered at the community level, based on collective vulnerability and direct observation.
Priority is given to schools where infrastructure failure poses an active risk to child health, attendance, or well-being, particularly those without basic structural safety or clean water.
In this way, the program ensures that assistance reaches those most in need, and that every improvement provides essential educational infrastructure and humanitarian relief to Kenya’s most vulnerable children.
