Welcome to KWENCH

Kenya Water, Energy Cleanliness and Health Project

www.kwench.org
P.O. Box 1336, Village Market Nairobi, 62100100 Kenya +254 726 295 675
Constance Hunt, Executive Director
Email: kwenchproject@gmail.com  |   Follow KWENCH on Twitter
Click here to donate through GlobalGiving.org.

List of  KWENCH staff and Board of Directors

Latest News

KWENCH opened its biodigester ablution block/community kitchen project in Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya on January 22, 2013 with a big event!Read more by clicking a link below.

·       Recap of the opening celebration

·       Remarks by Constance Hunt, Executive Director

·       Photos (click on thumbnail for larger photo)

Finnish Ambassador receiving a Necklace of Paper Beads from a Community Member as KHDP Manager, Moses Shivachi, Looks On

 

Finnish Ambassador Sofie From-Emmesberger and U.S. Deputy Ambassador Isiah Parnell on the Roof of the Project

 

Finnish Ambassador Sofie From-Emmesberger, U.S. Deputy Ambassador Isiah Parnell, a Safaricom Foundation Board Member and KWENCH CHair, Patrick Adira

U.S. Deputy Ambassador, Isiah Parnell, Unveiling a Plaque

 

 

Donors Cutting the Ribbon

Finnish Ambassador Sofie From-Emmesberger Speaking

Girls doing a Luya Dance

 

Participants Group Photo

Deputy U.S. Ambassador Isiah Parnell doing Stretches with Children

Safaricom Representatives talking with KHDP Project Manager Moses Shivachi

 

 Kitui Spring Project -- KWENCH has undertaken a wonderful, new project in rural Kenya in cooperation with the Muvua Self Help Group. The spring is located in Kitui West District, Mutongi Division, Usiani location, Kavalo sublocation. Like our first project in Kangeme, this one involves the development of a spring to provide high-quality water for drinking, cooking and other uses. But it also has sanitation, hygiene and livelihood components.  Learn more by clicking below.

You can donate to this project by going to http://www.globalgiving.com/13136

The Kitui Spring Project (click on thumbnail for larger photo)

Members of Muvua Self Help Group

Kitui Spring

Woman Fetching Water from Kitui Spring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archived material

Help KWENCH build a biodigester ablution block/community kitchen project in Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya
Click here to donate through GlobalGiving.org.   
This project will provide 500 residents of a Nairobi slum with access to toilets, showers and safe cooking facilities. People in the slum of Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya lack access to toilets and showers. They also use kerosene and charcoal cookstoves that present fire hazards and create indoor air pollution. This project will provide toilets and generate methane from human waste. The methane will be used to heat water for showers and to cook food in a safe community kitchen. It will change lives by increasing dignity, reducing disease and generating income through access fees and selling food. 

Read the project update, August 2011

Watch a video about the project.

 

Read and view photos about Kangeme Spring project, which diverted a spring to provide 10,000 liters per day of potable water to a school!

 

 

Please Help KWENCH Provide for Safe, Clean, Affordable Water for Mathare, a Nairobi Slum
Click here to donate through GlobalGiving.org.  

Mathare residents generally pay illegal vendors high prices for water of poor quality. KWENCH will replace the cartel of illegal vendors with legally registered community-based organizations (CBOs). The CBOs will establish legal connections with the Nairobi water utility. KWENCH will help them raise money for equipment and train the CBOs in financial management, operation and maintenance and hygiene. The CBOs will promise to maintain safe water supplies and operate legally and transparently.    Read more about the project. 

Photos of Mathare

 

 

 

 

 

KWENCH recently initiated a project to construct a wetland to improve water quality on the Ngong River, one of the three major tributaries to the Nairobi River.  Read more here. 

Read the preliminary feasibility report, 2011