Empowering youth In Slums for 25 years

CFK Africa is youth-centered and community-aligned.
We envision a future where a generation of healthy, educated, and innovative youth in informal settlements become visionary leaders and change-makers, facilitated by digital connectivity.

Our Youth Leaders Will

INSPIRE YOU

In the 2025 school year, our Lux Sit and Jim Rogers scholars rose to the top! We are proud to celebrate a historic achievement: for the first time ever, three of our scholars earned an A plain, the highest possible KCSE score, representing the top 0.19% of students. We also applaud the many scholars who earned A-minus and B-plus scores. Their journeys have been marked by many ups and downs, and their accomplishments speak to extraordinary perseverance in the face of challenges of growing up in slums. Well done to all of our scholars!

CFK Africa Spotlight:
FROM THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE

When Girls Lead, Communities Act: A Menstrual Health Victory in Kilifi

"In Matsangoni, members of CFK Africa’s Girls’ Parliament put their learning into...

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A Historic First: Lux Sit and Jim Rogers Scholars Earn Record KCSE Results

"Their journeys have been marked by many ups and downs, and their...

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2025: Our Year of Impact

For CFK Africa, 2025 has been an extraordinary year of impact. We...

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Talent is universal, Opportunity is not

We are committed to connecting talented slum youth to opportunities. Our approach confronts the most critical obstacles at each stage of life, from poor childhood nutrition to lack of education and gainful employment.  

Community Health​

We remove barriers to accessing quality health care.

Youth Leadership

We equip youth with education, employment, and advocacy skills.

Powerful Partnerships

We bring together partners to tackle community challenges.

Committed to local leadership

CFK Africa is locally led. Since our founding in 2001, our participatory development approach has been rooted in the conviction that sustainable impact and solutions to poverty are only possible when the communities most affected are the real change-makers.

We engage community advisory boards, hold feedback sessions, and strengthen collaborations with like-minded organizations, building trust and credibility essential to the success of our programs.

THE POWER OF COMMUNITY

With over two decades of work in our communities, CFK Africa has a proven track record of leading change.

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In collaboration with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), our RMEAL team is conducting a long-term #impact study on our sports program! We are preparing enumerators to conduct community surveys on Making Social Gains, tracking the social, economic, and community‑level outcomes from our #sports programs through a structured data collection process. #CFKAfrica

At least 50 other teenage mothers like Elizabeth Ombura, who come from informal settlements, have been trained in various trades. The Women at Work program by #CFKAfrica supports these teenage mothers in gaining financial independence by providing skills training and placing them in jobs in traditionally male-dominated fields. For more insights, watch Victoria Amunga's interview on TRT World https://bit.ly/3O4Lt7N

In the 2025 school year, our Lux Sit and Jim Rogers scholars rose to the top! We are proud to celebrate a historic achievement: for the first time ever, three of our scholars earned an A plain, the highest possible KCSE score, representing the top 0.19% of students. We also applaud the many scholars who earned A-minus and B-plus scores. Their journeys have been marked by many ups and downs, and their accomplishments speak to extraordinary perseverance in the face of challenges of growing up in slums. Our scholars reflect on their achievements: https://cfkafrica.org/a-historic-first-lux-sit-and-jim-rogers-scholars-earn-record-kcse-results/

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