Kenya Drylands Education Fund

1. Education-Create and improve educational opportunities for underserved populations in the drylands of Kenya that are accessible, equitable and sustainable and that foster successie generations of skilled leaders.
2. Community Development-Support the development of local solutions by creating healthy, resourced communities governed by local leaders.
3. Infrastructure
4. Operations-Strategically grow KDEF in a way that guarantee programmatic and operational success and that lend themselves to long term sustainability.

To achieve these goals, the KDEF strategic plan outlines objectives and key strategies that undergird these goals.
1. Provide access to education for children at an early age. a) Build Early Childhood Development Centers, b) Create incentives and pathways for students as young as four to enroll in school.
2. Increase school attendance and retention. a) Create conducive learning environments for students, b) Provide tools and menstrual products that allow girls and young women to attend school uninterrupted.
3. Establish scholarship programs for high-school and university students. a) Develop and fund annual scholarships for students who show promising potential to become local leaders and national/international scholars with the capacity to give back to their local communities.
4. Create a community-based mentoring model that leverages success stories while building the next class of scholars. a) Create and lead mentorship programs that allow students to develop life skills while pursuing career goals.

1. Ability to collect, interpret and act upon data from the multi-faceted model using i.e., using the data collected in the cloud-based Salesforce application to effect change.
2. Ten additional Early Childhood Development Centers will exist by 2028. a) Centers will contain the tools necessary for students to learn.
3. Hot nutritious meals will be delivered to each childhood development center and primary school that we serve
4. 90% school attendance in primary, secondary and high school, and transition to next grade. a) 1,800 girls will receive menstrual hygiene products for the school year and will be benchmarked against the number of girls who remain in school.
5. 50 high school scholarships will be provided each year with built in tracking to determine return on investment
6. Identify and drill boreholes to create long term, sustainable water supplies for drought-stricken communities.
7. Assist in the creation of critical infrastructure, such as sanitation blocks, boreholes, rock catchment, and rain water harvesting.
8. Provide scholarships and mentoring opportunities geared toward women.
9. Remove barriers to increasing economic power for women, i.e. create family incentives to keep girls in school
10. Create a pipeline of local leaders through community engagement, scholarships and opportunities to participate in community led governance.
11. Hold regular community conversations that allow people to provide feedback and input on community issues.

Our overall mission of providing educational opportunities is succeeding.
Since 2020 KDEF has provided the following:
1. Classrooms built - 35
2. Kitchens and cookstoves provided - 9
3. Sanitation Facilities provided - 67
4. Teacher houses built - 18
5. Dormitories built - 14
6. Science Centers built - 4
7. Rainwater Concrete Tanks - 3
8. Rainwater Harvesting Tanks - 23
9. Shallow wells - 18
10. Fences built - 16
11. Desks provided - 310
12. Water projects - 4
13. School Feeding Programs - 60
14. Administration Blocks built - 2
15. School gates provided - 3
16. Uniforms provided - 150