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Cistern of Hope Foundation

Together for a lasting change

Kenya • Community-led poverty eradication +254 182 751 610 info@cisternofhopefoundation.org
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Support our work

Help turn hope into opportunity.

We respond where the need is urgent, and we connect that response to education, skills, resilience and self-reliance.

Give

Every contribution should have a clear purpose.

Choose an amount and the area of work you want it to strengthen. Every gift, large or small, goes to the work you choose.

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  • No card or M-Pesa details are stored on this website.
  • Receipted separately from any Hope Market purchase.
  • Spent against approved budgets and documented.

How we account for what we receive →

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Your details

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Where support goes

What your support makes possible.

These are the areas where additional resources have the most direct effect today. We publish no cost-per-beneficiary figures, because we will not present an estimate as if it were a verified number.

Three boys in new school uniforms standing with the Executive Director outside their school.
01

Keep a child in school

School fees, exercise books, stationery, textbooks, uniforms, learning materials and school-related food support for vulnerable children.

Girls receiving packs of sanitary pads from Foundation staff during a door-to-door distribution.
02

Protect menstrual dignity

Sanitary pads and menstrual-health education, supporting the monthly distribution that currently reaches more than 200 girls.

A woman at her fruit and vegetable stall with a Foundation team member beside her.
03

Start or strengthen an enterprise

Start-up support, business-management and financial-literacy training, mentorship and market linkages for women and young people.

Other ways

Giving money is not the only way to help.

Partner with us

Programme grants, multi-year partnerships, technical assistance, equipment, market linkages and co-funding.

Partnership options →

Volunteer your skills

Mentorship, training, professional expertise and time given to programmes and to the young people in them.

Ways to get involved →

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Crafts made by the people in our enterprise programmes. Buying supports the maker and the mission at once.

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Our promise

What we owe anyone who gives.

Trust is one of our most important institutional assets. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to.

  • We prepare and work from approved budgets.
  • We maintain appropriate financial records and supporting documentation.
  • We monitor expenditure against approved programme budgets.
  • We maintain appropriate records for donor-funded activities.
  • We support transparent reporting and independent audit or review.
  • We protect the dignity and confidentiality of beneficiaries when documenting our work.

Read Our Accountability Commitments

Prefer to partner rather than give?

We welcome programme grants, multi-year partnerships, technical assistance, equipment, market linkages and co-funding.

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