Good Neighbors sponsored pupils in a Kenyan classroom

Our programs

Education & Child Protection

Quality education and protection so every Kenyan child can learn, thrive, and grow up safe.

The challenge

Why this work matters

Education is not only a human right in itself, but an essential right to realise other human rights — and the cornerstone of self-empowerment.

Good Neighbors promotes the right to education from early childhood through lifelong learning, and runs a comprehensive child-protection programme for children most vulnerable to violence, exploitation, and abuse.

What we do

Our focus on the ground

  • Ensuring quality education for all

    We support parents and caregivers, build better school environments, and develop teacher capacity — with special focus on removing the obstacles that keep girls out of school.

  • Enabling lifelong & adult education

    We provide literacy, numeracy, and skills training to adults who missed out on schooling, so they can trade at the market, transact, and empower themselves.

  • Protecting the most vulnerable children

    Our child-protection programme shields children from abuse, neglect, and exploitation through community systems and case support.

Where we work

Active in these communities

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Children supported by Good Neighbors Kenya

From the field

School fees paid by Mama Nahyeon

St. Gabriel Nahyeon Community Centre was founded on 3rd March 2017, in honour of Nahyeon, a former director of KOICA who passed away in 2013.

Nahyeon’s family donated to build and run a school in Dandora, Nairobi, fulfilling Nahyeon’s ambition to promote the education of children in Africa — and they continue to do so with the KOICA Family Foundation and Kenya Good Neighbors.

  • Young people in a Good Neighbors vocational programme
  • A Good Neighbors community meeting in Kenya
  • A Good Neighbors health worker with a mother and infant

School fees payment by Mama Nahyeon · St. Gabriel Nahyeon Community Centre, Dandora

A Good Neighbors community project in Kenya

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