Rafiki Mwema

Our vision is a safe childhood and bright future for every Kenyan. Our mission is to support Kenyan children through trauma by providing safety, nurture, education and hope.

In 2011, a generous trust donated funds to set up a therapeutic home for sexually abused girls under the age of 12 in Nakuru, Kenya, called Rafiki Mwema (Swahili for loyal friend). Within one week of opening the house was full and has been ever since.

One year later, all of the girls were responding to trauma therapy, showing remarkable progress and growing in the safe and protective arms of Rafiki Mwema. But the organisation was running out of funds and was at real threat of closing. Enter Sarah Rosborg who literally saved our souls by holding an online auction, raising enough funds to keep the home open for another three months. Sarah then established ‘Rafiki Mwema’ as a charity within Australia to help fund our home in Nakuru which is now home to both boys and girls who have suffered abuse, neglect and trauma.

Our successes are many and the impact Rafiki Mwema has had is undeniable. We’ve grown from a rented house with 22 girls, to four therapeutic houses housing 70 children; we’ve installed the first ever video-links in Kenyan courts to protect our child witnesses; acquired a farm where we grow crops and sell the excess at market; built a school for our girls called ” Rafiki Jasiri; launched Rafiki Mtaani (” Friend on the Street” ) which provides one meal per day, showers, lessons and care to those living rough in our community.

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