Roots Institute Centre is a community school located in Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya.
Our school provides free education (pre-school and primary), nutritious meals and a safe environment for vunerable children within Mathare Kosovo Community.
Roots Institute Centre is registered in as a CBO (“Community Based Organization”) and accredited by the Ministry of Education in Kenya.
Mathare slum, located in East Nairobi, is home to over 850,000 people.
With an average income of well below 2€ per day, many struggle to provide food and basic needs for children. These families often have limited or no resources to create opportunities to advance themselves, which leave them stuck in the poverty trap.
Poverty is a situation and not a choice.
Breaking the poverty cycle can be achieved by helping empower communities in Education.
Education is vital to break the poverty cycle. Education can open doors to jobs and loans to start businesses. Education improves knowledge in health and hygiene as well as reduces vulnerability to disease and violence.
The transformation is Driven by The Community
Our Story
Roots institute Centre was started with an aim of helping the less fortunate kids in the slum. It started with Seven Kids and later grew to more than Three hundred plus kids.