About— since 2020
A Kenyan foundation, six years in.
What began as one cohort in Kibera in 2020 is now a registered NGO working across Kenyan counties — turning waste into food and opportunity.
Who we are
Lishe Grow Foundation turns the organic waste a community throws away into food security and household income.
The work began in Kibera in 2020 and formalised as a non-governmental organization in 2026 — six years of composting hubs, school and household gardens, and women's cohorts, built on one idea: nothing useful should be thrown away. "Lishe" means nutrition in Swahili. The foundation also works to include people often left out — single mothers, caregivers of children with albinism, and persons with disabilities.
The founder
Built from the ground, in Kibera.
The foundation's founder started the work in Kibera in 2020, growing it from a single community cohort into a registered NGO reaching schools, households, and women's groups across Kenya — and partnerships beyond it.
The approach is shaped by the place it came from: turning thickets, rocky terrain, and degraded, previously non-arable and flood-prone land into fertile food gardens — and proving the model in some of the hardest conditions before adapting it elsewhere.
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Mission
To turn organic waste into food security and dignified livelihoods — and to keep the loop running in the communities we work with.
Vision
Resilient, prosperous communities where nothing useful is wasted, and no one is left out of the work.
Mission and vision wording to be confirmed with the foundation.
What guides us
How we work.
Nothing wasted
Waste at one end becomes resilience at the other. The circular idea runs through everything.
Skills that spread
Each cohort trains the next, so the work multiplies rather than depending on us.
No one left out
We design for the people most often excluded — and build the work around them.
Counted honestly
We weigh, log, and report — and we're clear about what's measured and what's reasoned.
Rooted, then shared
We prove the model in the hardest conditions before adapting it elsewhere.
Built with partners
The work grows through collaboration — funders, schools, programs, and practitioners.
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