We have received very generous support to install solar panels on all sixteen houses currently occupied, with enough funds in hand for solar for all of the last phase of building - 9 houses more. Thank you, Prefect Controls, for your interest in our project and for the invaluable financial support and encouragement you are giving us. From the start of the project the aim has been sustainability wherever possible and the plan had been to install solar power at the end of the b

The families who moved in in April are enjoying their new homes. They continue to help the project in practical ways, providing security for the site, help with curing the slab on the latest houses and other contributions to the work made possible because they are now residents. Commemoration and thanks at Kamulu One of these tasks is watering the three saplings recently planted by Robert Neill who came from Ireland and visited the project. He is the brother-in-law of CHT's

Above are the first five houses, almost ready for the tenants. The sixth (above, right) is underway. The past few months have seen lots...

The 180 or so people in the MWAMO families are still living in Korogocho, next to the toxic Nairobi Municipal Dump which has significant...

The decision to finish the first five houses together makes it possible to benefit from economies of scale. All the first five houses are...

Through April and into May 2021, despite a new Covid-19 Nairobi lockdown but observing all regulations, building work continued...

Many important lessons were learned from the first building phase. Some were about the best way to proceed and to implement lessons...

When the site was bought in 2012 it was open, undeveloped land, with just two houses and a small church visible a distance away and with...

The essence of these pictures is to show the MWAMKO members hard at work. The skilled tradesmen in the group and the successful trainees...

The project is entering a new phase. Two acres of land with secure title were bought some time ago, thanks to generous donations, large...

Commonwealth Housing Group (Kenya) has just been declared runner-up in all three rounds of the competition for best fundraising by a...

On 10th August 2019 Aashna Puri and three friends travelled to Tanzania and climbed Mount Kiliminjaro, Africa's highest mountain. Once...

From the outset, the Commonwealth Housing Trust project in Korogocho, Nairobi, was conceived as a potential model for supporting people living in slums who wanted to work together to help themselves to secure decent housing which they could afford. The project has steadily progressed and evolved over many years, with a lot of hard work by everyone involved; the families of the community group in Korogocho, known as MWAMKO; the Commonwealth Housing Group committee (CHG) in K