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.
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!
"In Matsangoni, members of CFK Africa’s Girls’ Parliament put their learning into...
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For CFK Africa, 2025 has been an extraordinary year of impact. We...
Read MoreWe 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.
We remove barriers to accessing quality health care.
We equip youth with education, employment, and advocacy skills.
We bring together partners to tackle community challenges.
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.
With over two decades of work in our communities, CFK Africa has a proven track record of leading change.
community members served annually.
years of experience working in slums.
of Kenya’s population is < 35 representing power and promise.
We are committed to #alwayslearning - both by sharing our lessons learned and embracing opportunities to learn from partners around the world. Today, Siama Yusuf, Senior Program Officer for Girls Empowerment, presented on #CFKAfrica's advocacy and community-led support model for girls empowerment at a special event hosted by the The Coalition for Adolescent Girls, "Sharing Promising Practices That Amplify Girl-Centered Approaches: Voices, Visibility, and Collective Learning." Thank you for including us in this virtual gathering of partners dedicated to #girlsempowerment.
In Kilifi, #CFKAfrica’s Girls’ Parliament put learning into action, advocating for greater access to sanitary towels. With support from local authorities, they mobilized over 1,000 packs of sanitary pads for distribution to girls and young women at a special community event. The turnout was overwhelming, the energy inspiring, and the impact immediate! You go, girls! Read about their efforts here: https://cfkafrica.org/when-girls-lead-communities-act-a-menstrual-health-victory-in-kilifi/ #girlsempowerment #girlslead
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
