Sh100 million Ndoto Zetu phase four is on. Here’s how you can apply for funding
You can now have your dream community project brought to life as Safaricom Foundation’s Ndoto Zetu initiative invites Kenyans to share Sh100 million funding.
Kenyans wishing to participate can send a written submission through Safaricom Foundation’s Ndoto Zetu website: www.safaricom.co.ke/ndotozetu or by visiting any Safaricom Retail Shop and fill in an application form for a chance to have their community dream realized. All successful participants will be contacted by through 0722 000 000, Safaricom Foundation said.
Now in its fourth phase, Safaricom Foundation seeks to positively transform the lives of about two million people through health, education, and economic empowerment projects spread across Kenya.
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa made the announcement at Salvation Army Joytown Secondary School in Thika, Kiambu County, where the foundation donated 10 laptops and 8 projectors worth over Kes1.5 million. The school caters to physically challenged learners.
“Ndoto Zetu aims to support Kenyans who are keen to make an impact in their communities through social investments. Through the initiative, we ask Kenyans to share the dreams and aspirations that they hope to achieve in the areas of health, education, and economic empowerment. Each dream we help fulfill translates to thousands of lives being uplifted and transformed”, said Peter Ndegwa, CEO, Safaricom.
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Ndoto Zetu is a unique corporate giving programme under Safaricom Foundation that encourages Kenyans to partner with it by proposing projects at the grassroots for consideration and financing thereby bringing their community dreams and aspirations to life.
In the previous three editions leading up to the fourth leg of the programme, Ndoto Zetu has funded over 1,000 projects in thematic areas of health, education, environmental conservation, economic empowerment, water, disaster relief, and arts and culture across the country, impacting over three million Kenyans.
Joytown Secondary Principal Dr Evelyn Andolo lauded Safaricom’s untiring commitment to facilitating and actualizing students’ dreams in the school.
“Every part of our compound has a mark of Safaricom, so it’s hard to forget you,” she said, alluding to previous contributions by the tech giant to her school.
The telco has previously made donations to the school to promote students’ well-being, such as a school bus, physiotherapy equipment, a bakery, and a poultry project.
Dr Andolo termed the donation as a “continuation of the actualization of our dreams.”
Joytown students were delighted to receive personal utilities from Ndoto Zetu. Each was gifted a backpack and a geometrical set, while all 153 female students got sanitary towels.
