Transforming Communities

Community

“Mana is simply how you care for other people.”

We are born to help one another. We are born to connect with community. When we serve one another, we experience a deep contentment.

Manasprings facilitates ‘in-field’ learning that takes place within community schools, health centres, children’s homes, community groups, agricultural settings and more. We become stronger leaders by seeing first-hand what other like-minded leaders are actually doing. We learn from each other. Our organisations grow stronger.

We champion Mana Women and their local organisations! And in doing so, help raise funds for community programs to support our mission to transform communities for the wellbeing of all. Manasprings Girls Education, Agriculture for Women, and Women in Small Business Programs are a collective effort to educate and empower girls and women within Kenya society.

You Can Help us By

Contributing to a community project

  • Target: $30,000

    Raised: $100

    For many people living in marginalised communities in Kenya, the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic is an additional life threatening crisis that requires urgent response. Stay at home orders are extremely difficult when living in overcrowded slum communities, and when relying on daily casual labour to earn enough money for food and rent. Manasprings women community leaders […]

  • Target: $50,000

    Raised: $250

    Women in leadership is a major agenda within Manasprings, so empowering young women to become leaders in their chosen career is vitally important to Manasprings. Educating Kenyan girls to realise their full potential is worthy of our efforts, especially when we understand that girls and women suffer such inequalities, including gender disparities within education and […]

  • Target: $15,000

    Raised: $120

    According to the World Bank, women make up 80 percent of Kenya’s farmers, however access to financial support to develop their small scale shambas is severely lacking due to the fact that few women own property they can use as collateral for loans. Combine this with the impacts of prolonged drought and devastating floods in recent […]

  • Target: $10,000

    Raised: $50

    Women are extremely hardworking and creative when it comes to business, and the money they earn provides for rent on their home, school fees for children, and daily food for the household. But raising the capital to start a small business is challenging for many Kenyan women living in rural villages or inner city informal […]

Together we were able to get...

  • It’s done… thanks to all who dug deep and stretched out to make it happen. Because of your generosity, Manasprings now has a big, bold, and black 4WD – a 2004 Landrover Discovery 2 with rugged front and rear bull bars, side-steps, tyres that will take us off-road, and bright lights for Kenya’s unpredictable roads. […]

  • Thanks to friends who donated $1,600 to buy 15 bags of maize and five bags of bean for Mercy Children’s Home. Drought in the Migori area meant that the expected harvest of maize and beans for children living at Mercy Children’s Home was halved. There would not be enough food for kids.

  • Partnering with Ducere, Manasprings handed out over 8,000 books to children in Kenya, in both public and informal schools. The African Children’s Stories are remarkable books, written by African children for children across the world.

  • Today, Danny is a student at the University of Nairobi, studying accountancy and commerce. Danny is one of eight siblings, and the first within his family to attend university. 

  • After receiving funds from the Australian High Commission Direct Aid Program, Tenderfeet have been extremely busy in building new gas cookers for the school kitchen, erecting a water tower and connecting water to the school, plus getting new office furniture and computers.