About SVF

About Us

Our Mission

To empower individuals and communities through values-based leadership development, community engagement, and social impact initiatives that foster sustainable change.

Our Vision

Thriving communities led by ethical, values-driven leaders who take shared responsibility for social transformation.

Who We Are

Founded in 2014, Shared Values Foundation (SVF) is a Kenyan NGO inspired by global sustainable development principles outlined in the Social Responsibility ISO 26000 guidelines. Guided by our SCAPII values, we strive for equity in all our charitable endeavors, collaborating with like-minded individuals and organizations. Since inception, SVF has partnered with donors like the African Circle of Hope Foundation and the Gstaad Rotary Club to make strides in community development across Meru, Nairobi, and Muranga counties. Achievements include improving sanitation at St. Lucy’s Primary School for the Blind, distributing food to over 550 during COVID-19, sponsoring secondary education for 300 students annually, supporting 1800 girls with menstrual hygiene, and conducting medical camps benefitting 500 individuals. Additionally, SVF surveyed FGM in Samburu, engaging with survivors and planning expansion to all 21 hotspot counties. Focus areas include education, child welfare, and environmental concerns.

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Students Sponsored

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girls supported with menstrual hygiene

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food packages distributed during COVID-19

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medical camps beneficiaries

Where we Work

Shared Values Foundation’s programming mandate includes 19 counties click here of Kenya, of which 12 are Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and 7 non-ASAL. We have initially done some work in Nairobi, Muranga and Meru and getting our foot prints in Isiolo and Samburu counties, eventually planning to reach Marsabit and concentrate in this cluster; hoping to venture into the other counties as we grow and raise the necessary resources. Our entry into the listed counties is informed by overwhelming needs of their populations.

Our Core Values (SCAPII )

Our Approach

Shared Values Foundation employs an inclusive and integrated approach to facilitate programs that lead to no poverty, zero hunger, promotion of good health and wellbeing and quality education, having clean water and sanitation in the communities, promotion of decent work and economic growth, reduced inequalities, climate action initiatives, promotion of peaceful, just and strong institutions and enabling partnership and collaboration through shared values. The approaches include community mobilization and animation, supporting formal and non-formal education for children and youth while promoting basic literacy and numeracy in the adult populations including digital knowledge and skills and financial literacy, support development and implementation of community driven income generating initiatives, support climate action programs including knowledge on climate mitigation and adaptation, and small enterprises particularly in agribusiness among others.

Community Development Issues

The world over Kenya included, children, youth and women are the section of population often left behind socially and economically and more vulnerable to social injustices, internal conflicts, impacts of climate change, diseases such as HIV/AIDS and COVID- knowledge19, knowledge and skills gaps.

This is pushing more and more of the vulnerable populations into poverty and retrogressive activities such as human trafficking, prostitution, and crime for survival. Phenomenal increase in cases of mental illnesses and suicides is also attributed to these challenges.

For girls and young women, coercion into inhuman cultural practices like early marriages, FGM and child labour which are common in several northern Kenya cultures is still a major concern of our times.

Shared Values Foundation has taken up the challenge to attempt to address these issues by dealing primarily with the root causes as well as the impacts, aiming to empower them by equipping them with the right knowledge, skills, attitudes and the wherewithal to confront their challenges, achieve a turnaround, particularly in their livelihoods and become active and productive participants in their own development and that of our country.

What we hope to achieve

Shared Values Foundation hope to see thriving communities where there is social justice, no poverty, with zero hunger; good health, equitable and quality education; clean water and sanitation, decent work, economic growth and reduced inequalities. Communities where climate action is a collective responsibility right from the grassroots. Peaceful communities, with just and strong institutions partnerships and collaboration through shared values.