Program Vision: Improving community and environmental health for Kenyan families, by increasing access to safewater and sanitation, while building individual skills and capacity and maintaining bonds of friendship and support with the Tweed Community.

The Tweed Community, under the leadership of Tweed Shire Council, is participating in a mentoring program with a number of communities in Kenya.

The program uses the Tweed’s human, technical and financial resources to support an environmental education and safe water program in the informal settlements surrounding Nairobi, and in poverty stricken rural areas. The program is underpinned by a strong bond between individuals and community organisation from Tweed Shire and Kenya who have met and learnt from each other over the course of the program.

The International RiverFoundation and On Q Human Resources are the major external sponsors of the Tweed Community Kenya Mentoring Program. The program has also been sustained by the generosity of a large number of businesses and individuals within the Tweed Community, all of whom are listed under the sponsors section of this website.

The mentoring program employs one full-time staff member and operates from an office in Kiberia, which is a township on the outskirts of Nairobi. It has recently provided a water treatment facility for the community of Obambo-Kadenge in the west of Kenya, and is managed within the Tweed Shire by a team of Council staff and volunteers from a number of community groups.