We are proud to announce that our first Nancy's Playgrounds project of 2021 was launched on the 20th of February 2021!
Continue reading..In 1975, Nancy started the “Pledge Your Christmas Tree to Naivasha” campaign...
Continue reading..The use of solar lights is a simple, sustainable solution to lighting for children across...
Continue reading..With your support over the last 10 years, our Lights for Learning Program has provided affordable solar...
Continue reading..Since her arrival in Kenya in 1959 alongside her husband Howard, Nancy Crooks committed herself to take on project after project to better the lives ...
Continue reading..With the spread of Covid-19 worldwide, food availability and affordability has become an important and pressing issue across nations worldwide. In Kenya, the pandemic has worsened…
Continue reading..In the digital age, most children have access to the internet through the computer and other technology devices. According to the Communications Authority of Kenya, 87% of children…
Continue reading..Over the past weeks, citizens in cities across the world, including here in Nairobi, took to the streets, organizing and mobilizing massive protests against racism and police…
Continue reading..This month the NECF is excited to collaborate with the ‘Reaching Heart through Arts’ initiative to bring you our NECF readers and your children downloadable activity and coloring…
Continue reading..While gardening is often thought of as an outdoor activity, it totally doesn’t have to be. For those who are social distancing in apartment buildings or just have limited outdoor…
Continue reading..The need to plan and prepare our children for potentially overwhelming infectious outbreaks rather than trying to teach hygiene during outbreaks cannot be overstated. They say…
Continue reading..44 % of Kenyan households are in the dark with lack of access to electricity. Could a shift towards solar energy be the answer to Kenya’s universal electrification goal? Lighting…
Continue reading..Did you know, creating attractive, beautiful and healthy environments for children has a direct impact on their morale and lifts their spirits? Children interact wholesomely with…
Continue reading..The first ten years of my life were paraffin powered. Recalling now, sibling rivalry in my household was propagated by a constant desire to have the well-lit, non-soot side
Continue reading..On June 5th the Nancy Ellen Crooks Foundation launched Nancy’s Gardens at Village to Global school in Vihiga County. Papaya, locally known as pawpaw is one of the easiest fruit to…
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