Every child deserves a chance to dream beyond their circumstances.
We turn potential into possibility through education, mentorship, and care.
CHANGING LIVES
THROUGH EDUCATION
Education has the power to change lives. It opens up new opportunities, encourages critical thinking, and helps individuals reach their full potential. By providing quality education, we can break the cycle of poverty, promote equality, and support sustainable development. Education not only imparts knowledge and skills but also fosters values like empathy, resilience, and a passion for lifelong learning.
CHANGING LIVES
THROUGH EDUCATION
Education has the power to change lives. It opens up new opportunities, encourages critical thinking, and helps individuals reach their full potential. By providing quality education, we can break the cycle of poverty, promote equality, and support sustainable development. Education not only imparts knowledge and skills but also fosters values like empathy, resilience, and a passion for lifelong learning.
About Us
Zaharamap Elimu Foundation
Zaharamap Elimu Foundation is Christian Faith based organisation duly registered under the Public Benefit Organizations Regulatory Authority kenya. Registration number NGO-ABUJWM6 (formally NGO Board)
Zaharamap Elimu program is dedicated to supporting the education and well-being of children living in poverty with high academic potential in rural Kenya. Zaharamapelimu is located in Machakos,Mavoko, Syokimau. Our journey began in 2025 with just four children, and today, Zaharamap Elimu supports over 15 children, including many orphans, in all aspects of their lives and education.We focus on primary school children who are orphans or vulnerable by enrolling them in quality boarding secondary schools.
Our high school students attend National and County schools where we help them strive for excellence. Post-high school, we will endevour to enroll them in quality universities and technical institutions based on their grades and abilities.
Zaharamap Elimu provides comprehensive scholarships that cover tuition fee, pocket money and basic school shopping .
More importantly, we offer ongoing psychosocial support, business literacy, and, above all, Love.
ZEF Program supports 2/3 of girls and 1/3 of boys. The future of our incredible orphans without Zaharamapelimu’s support is unimaginable, especially for our young ladies.
EDUCATED GIRLS DEFY ODDS
Perhaps the most significant contributor to global poverty alleviation and gender equality is girls’ education. In Kenya, girls are more likely to drop out of school after primary school than boys. When you keep a girl in school, she will be more likely to marry later, have fewer and healthier children, earn a decent living, educate her children, and live longer.
When given opportunity, empowered girls break through barriers.They lead as school prefects. They excel as math champions. They grow into engineers and lawyers, mentors and changemakers.
EDUCATED BOYS CREATE CHANGE
We cannot underestimate the role of boys’ education in the fight for gender parity worldwide. Zaharamap Elimu is for the opinion that, due to historical injustices meted to girl child, alot of emphasis has been directed to girl child while the boy child has lagged behind.
Gender equality in Kenya depends on investing in boys as much as girls. While much-needed attention has rightly gone to girls’ education in recent decades, boys in vulnerable communities face their own barriers — poverty, absent role models, and pressure to leave school early for work. Left unsupported, these gaps can lead to unemployment, substance abuse, and cycles of instability that affect entire communities.
Zaharamap Elimu believes lasting change requires lifting both girls and boys together. An educated, emotionally healthy generation of young men becomes partners, fathers, and leaders who support the same progress their sisters are making — not obstacles to it. That’s why our program, alongside our strong focus on girls, is intentional about mentoring boys toward positive masculinity, responsibility, and opportunity
In kenya, unemployed, and uneducated boys are more likely to be involved in antisocial norms like substance abuse, crime and community menace. Zaharamap Elimu believes that, in order to maintain parity and healthier community, we need to move both gender to a higher indifference curve.
With exposure to healthy gender norms through empowernment, the community produces individuals who enhances sustainability in the society at large
Impact and transparency
How Zef Works
Education is the greatest tool for a child living in poverty. Zef provides access to secondary school, supports transitions to and through higher education, and incorporates mentoring and personal and professional development along the way.
How your donation works
This is how your donation is utilised
Your US $140 donation provides one term school tuition fees for one student
- Your US $420 GIft provides a full year school tuition fees for one student
- Your US$ 25 provides shoe polish, toilet paper,toothpaste, toothbrush,laundry soap,bathing soap,oil/lotion and bus fare to school for one term for one student
Who Are ZEF Scholars?
Zef scholars hail from all corners of Kenya, and are selected based on academic merit, financial need, and leadership potential. Our gender ratio is ⅔ girls to ⅓ boys. The programme began in 2025. 15 students were enrolled in semester 1, 2025.
Our Scholars
What we do
At Zaharamap Elimu Foundation, we are committed to providing quality holistic education. Our sponsored students receive comprehensive support, empowerment, mentorship, and monitoring from induction through to post-graduation.
Quality Holistic Education
Interventions worked on
Selection of Deserving Students: We identify and support deserving students at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education.
Mentorship and Coaching: We enhance students’ knowledge and character through dedicated mentorship and coaching programs.
Internships and Job Opportunities: We increase students’ access to internships and job attachment opportunities.
Monitoring and Evaluation: We continuously monitor, strengthen, and evaluate students’ outcomes to ensure their success.
Equipping graduates to be independent, responsible and productive with their lives post graduation
Actively engage and empower Alumni network
Assist develop business and life skills to every sponsored child
Know More About
What We Achieved
- Education for both boys and girls.
- Economic empowerment.
- Sexual Reproduction, Health, and Rights.
- Advocacy.
They Need Your Help!
NOTE:
Zaharamapelimu Foundation recognizes and upholds the dignity,confidentiality and rights of all children supported through our program. We are committed to ensuring their safety and wellbeing and work in partnership with parents/guardians, government and sponsors to do this.
FAQS
A program dedicated to supporting the education and well-being of children living in poverty with high academic potential in rural Kenya.
A transformed and empowered society where every vulnerable child and youth has access to education, guidance, and opportunity to reach their full potential
To empower vulnerable children and youth through access to education, mentorship, career guidance, and psychosocial support, equipping them to make informed life decisions and become positive agents of change in their families and communities.
To break cycles of poverty and dependency by nurturing educated, confident, and value-driven young people who contribute meaningfully to society.
- Access to Education
To provide consistent educational sponsorship that ensures vulnerable children remain in school and transition successfully to post-secondary opportunities. - Holistic Mentorship & Career Guidance
To offer structured mentorship and early career guidance that enables students to align academic choices with long-term career aspirations. - Psychosocial Support & Well-being
To address emotional, psychological, and social challenges faced by beneficiaries through counselling, mentorship, and safe spaces for self-expression. - Family & Community Empowerment
To engage parents, guardians, and community stakeholders in shared responsibility for child development, reducing dependency and strengthening family systems.
Integrity, Accountability & Sustainability
To steward resources with transparency, strengthen donor trust, and develop sustainable funding and operational systems that support long-term impact
All and any needy child who meets ZEF selection Criteria can reach out to for enrollment in the Zaharamap Elimu Program
ZaharaMapElimu is located in Machakos, mavoko, syokimau. Visit us at our offices, at 48 Loneview Access road. Syokimau