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, Skyjuice Foundation and JH Williams 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 three staff members and operates from an office in Dagoretti, which is a township on the outskirts of Nairobi. The staff work with networks of youth groups to raise awareness of environmental issues and organise activities based around sport which provide opportunities for community development. The program has now provided two water treatment facilities for poor rural communities 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.