Our North Star
TKP’s Vision
Our Vision
A rural Kenya where children realize their full potential—excelling in the classroom, leading with confidence, and creating their own opportunities.
Our Model
How We Work
We build a sustainable ecosystem for transformation. Our model is built on four pillars that ensure every investment leads to permanent change in rural Kenya.
Our Difference
Scaling Deep in Rural Kenya
Kenyan led +
Community Owned
Decisions are driven by Kenyan educators, staff, and community leaders who understand local priorities, tradition, and challenges. Their ownership helps ensure schools remain culturally grounded, responsive, and trusted while fostering accountability and long-term sustainability.
Place-Based Commitment
Rather than expanding broadly, TKP grows deeper within rural Kilgoris, making long-term investments alongside the children and communities it serves. Campuses expand one classroom at a time, growing year by year as students advance through school and new learners enter behind them.
Accessible Private Education
TKP operates a low-cost education model that keeps high-quality learning accessible for rural families. Philanthropy bridges the gap, while modest family contributions foster shared investment in each child’s future.
Whole-Child Development
TKP combines education with nutrition, healthcare, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Gender Equity, and Enrichment Programs to build rising futures. Supporting the whole child creates the strongest conditions for learning, resilience, and long-term opportunity.
Daily Impact
Designed to Remove Barriers
TKP’s Vision
Our programs are designed to remove the barriers standing between a child in Kilgoris and their future. When we invest in seven areas below to build and support a foundation for early childhood education.
Program Components
8 Areas That Bring Our Model to Life
Academic Excellence:
Early Childhood through Junior Secondary
From age three through junior secondary school, students build the literacy, numeracy, critical thinking, and STEM skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.
Total Child Wellness:
Healthcare + WASH
Annual health screenings, primary care, vaccinations, clean water, and improved sanitation help students stay healthy, supported, and ready to learn.
Nutrition:
The foundation for learning
Reliable access to twice-daily meals supports student health, concentration, and long-term learning outcomes.
Enrichment Programming: Growing the Whole Child
Sports, clubs, arts, and enrichment activities broaden students’ experiences while fostering teamwork, creativity, and connection.
Empowering Educators
Investments ongoing teacher development to strengthen classroom instruction, ensuring students receive engaging, high-quality learning experiences at every level.
Gender Equity: Protecting the Future of Girls
Girls’ empowerment programs, mentorship, and access to menstrual health resources help remove barriers to education while expanding opportunity for girls.
Rooted in Community Partnership
Families, governing boards, local employment, and shared investment keep TKP’s schools deeply connected to the communities they serve.
Food Systems & Sustainability
TKP’s 43-acre farm supplies approximately 80% of school feeding needs while supporting local employment and strengthening community food systems.
