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Money, work, and things money cannot buy
Maua Duniani has no funding yet. What we need in the next twelve months is small, specific, and mostly not glamorous.
Maua Duniani is in the process of registering as a Community-Based Organisation in Mombasa County. Until that registration completes and a dedicated organisational bank account is open in the CBO's name, we are not accepting public donations into any personal account.
That is a deliberate choice, and it costs us money in the short term. Funds received into an individual's account cannot be audited, cannot be properly separated from personal money, and would compromise every governance commitment on this page. If you want to give now, use the pledge form below and we will contact you the week our organisational account opens — with the registration certificate attached.
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Ways to give
Kenyan givers, use M-PESA. Everyone else, use bank transfer. Every route lands in the same organisational account.
- Open M-PESA on your phone and choose Lipa na M-PESA, then Pay Bill.
- Enter the paybill number above.
- Enter the account number above — this is how we identify your gift.
- Enter the amount, then your M-PESA PIN.
- Keep the confirmation SMS. It is your receipt, and we reconcile against it.
Standard Safaricom paybill charges apply and go to Safaricom, not to us.
Giving from outside Kenya? Email us before you send — we can tell you which route loses the least to fees, and whether a receipt useful for tax in your country is available.
Email us about an international giftWhere it goes
What the first money actually pays for
Only the registration costs below are confirmed figures, taken from Kenyan statutory fee schedules. The rest are budget lines we will publish with real numbers once the Year One budget is finalised — we would rather show you an empty box than a made-up figure.
| Line | Cost | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| CBO registration, Mombasa County | KES 1,000–5,000 | Legal existence. Without this there is no bank account, no paybill, no grant application, no MOU. |
| The listening process | to be published | Transport, venue, refreshments and facilitation for sessions with girls and young women in the target ward. |
| Curriculum development & facilitator time | to be published | Twelve months of weekly savings-group and curriculum sessions for one to two groups. |
| Vocational placements & starter tools | to be published | The difference between a girl who has been trained and a girl who is earning. |
| Supervision & staff wellbeing | to be published | Clinical supervision for everyone in direct delivery. Non-negotiable, and budgeted as such. |
| PBO registration (year two) | KES 25,000 + KES 1,000 name reservation | National status, and access to institutional funders that will not fund a CBO. |
Funds are held in a dedicated account in the organisation's name, never a personal one, with two signatories required. We publish an annual financial summary whether or not a funder requires it. We will tell you what did not work, not only what did. If you ask where your specific gift went, you get a real answer. And if we cannot use your money for what you gave it for, we will contact you before we spend it on anything else.
Other ways to help
Three things we need that are not money
Honestly, two of these are more urgent than the money.
Become a founding member
A Kenyan CBO needs a minimum of ten resident members to register. We are building that founding membership from people genuinely invested in this work — not names collected to clear a threshold. If you live in Mombasa County and this is your community, this is the most valuable thing you can give us right now.
Talk to us about joiningOffer an apprenticeship or a first job
Our income pathway only works if Mombasa employers are actually willing to take someone on. If you run a business here — in the port, in tourism, in hospitality, in a trade, in services — one apprenticeship place or one entry-level role does more for this programme than a donation of the same value. We are asking before we train, not after.
Offer a placementLend a professional skill
We specifically need: a Kenyan advocate familiar with the PBO framework, a monitoring and evaluation specialist, a Kiswahili translator willing to review this site, a bookkeeper, and someone who has run a savings group before. Pro bono, part-time, or advisory — all useful.
Offer a skillFor institutional funders
We are building for the funding environment that exists, not the one that used to
USAID committed roughly US$2.5 billion to Kenya between 2020 and 2025 — about $470 million a year, 80% of it health-related — before U.S. foreign assistance was frozen in January 2025 and cut through a July 2025 rescissions package.
By one estimate, terminated USAID contracts and grants in Kenya totalled over KSh 108 billion, roughly US$835 million, with gender-based-violence programmes named specifically among the casualties. We do not build a plan that assumes a large bilateral or UN-adjacent grant in Year One. We build one that survives without it.
Who we are approaching
- AWDF Small Grants Programme — US$1,000–5,000, active in Kenya, built explicitly for small women's groups without other access to finance
- Urgent Action Fund–Africa — flexible, rapid-response funding built to reach emerging groups
- UNFPA — 2026 East and Southern Africa call, seeking women-led and youth-led organisations on GBV prevention and social-norm change
- Kenyan corporate CSR — Safaricom Foundation, Equity Group Foundation, KCB Foundation, given Mombasa's tourism and port-economy corporate presence
Training fees, a small social enterprise, and vocational placements tied to our alternative-livelihood model — built in from day one rather than added later, given how unstable pure grant dependency has become across this sector.