Maji Mazuri

Duara assists Maji Mazuri to build a community and education center right in the ghetto, but with vital frontage on the main road that skirts it. This means that secure access to the building will be available day and night. This 30,000 square foot facility will house all of the existing Maji Mazuri programs – the Head Start school, with places for 350 children, the micro-business loan program, the Education and Talent Program for youth from 4-22 years – plus a new clinic, a community hall, a library, and an Internet café. 2 floors will provide modern, spacious classrooms, and we will have a large and secure playground on the roof. There will be an elevator for the disabled children, solar panels to generate electricity and a rain water harvesting system.

Besides assisting Maji Mazuri in the construction of the building and raising funds for the educational facilities, Duara focuses in particular in assisting Maji Mazuri on realising the Education and Talent Program (see ‘Stop the Bullet!’ on this site, our campaign to raise funds for the Education and Talent Program).

Maji Mazuri offers a viariety of projects to the community of Mathare: