Karibuni Children

Registered charity 1044872 · since 1995karibuni.org.uk·Kenya·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£220k

Annual giving, year to 31 December 2024

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

Karibuni Children's work fits applicants running education or child-focused poverty projects in Kenya, since it partners with nursery and primary schools and community organisations, all run by Kenyans in deprived areas, and funds meals, uniforms, shoes, learning equipment and feminine hygiene products.
Organisations working outside Kenya, or whose purposes fall outside relieving children in need by reason of poverty, sickness and distress, particularly homeless children, or advancing their education, should not apply.
The annual report shows £220,267 paid in total, which may include grants to individuals, but no typical grant size or grant range is stated, so size any request to your own project rather than to that figure.
No application process is published in the annual report, its register entry or on its website, so the sensible first step is to contact the listed contact and ask how to apply and when decisions are made.
Nothing is stated about timing or how competitive its funding is, so ask about both when you get in touch.

Overview

Karibuni Children is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1044872).

Karibuni Children is a charity registered in the UK that exists to help Kenyan children from some of the poorest backgrounds fulfil their potential and release themselves from the cycle of poverty. At any one time it supports around 700 children living in slum communities across Kenya. It works through professionally run projects in Kenya, run by Kenyans, which include nursery or primary schools and wider community-based organisations.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Karibuni Children focuses on transforming young Kenyan lives through education, partnering with locally run projects to help children from some of the poorest backgrounds attend school. Its partners include nursery and primary schools and wider community-based organisations, all run by Kenyans and based in deprived areas. It supports access to education and works with communities to address barriers through nutritious meals, uniforms, shoes, learning equipment and feminine hygiene products. It also supports initiatives to empower wider family units and works with partners on infrastructure such as garment workshops and spaces for small businesses, aiming to strengthen self-sufficiency. Children are selected locally according to a poorest-of-the-poor criterion, without bias for gender, faith, tribe or academic potential.

Themes

Education
Poverty relief
Family empowerment
Community development
Child nutrition

Geographic Focus

Kenya.

What they don't fund

The foundation does not fund outside Kenya
The foundation does not fund purposes other than relieving children in need by reason of poverty, sickness and distress, particularly homeless children, through shelter, food and clothing, and advancing their education

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Kenya

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2020	£300,058	£360,154	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2020
year to 31 December 2021	£290,830	£291,667	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£281,674	£270,844	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£313,606	£371,416	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£281,759	£310,115	£220,267	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024

Grants paid, year to 31 December 2024: grants paid out in the year.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.