KenGen PLC actively participates in the welfare of communities in and around the areas it works as part of its Corporate Social Investment strategy. The company believes every child has the right to education and wants to ensure education access to a maximum number of children. Through our educational initiatives, scholarship grants, and school infrastructure... Read More

It was an ecstatic moment for pupils, teachers and the board of Amani Primary School, Mombasa County, as they received their newly refurbished toilet and hand washing stations from KenGen PLC Kipevu Power Station Givers. The project, which cost approximately Kshs. 3 million, was aimed at promoting hygienic environment for the pupils and teachers. KenGen... Read More

More than a hundred water drums have been distributed through the KenGen Foundation to vulnereable communities at Olkaria, Naivasha County, as a response for the need to provide water storage to households facing the current ongoing drought as part of KenGen PLC’s Corporate Social Investment. Olomayiana Kubwa, Oloosinyat, Cultural Centre, Narasha, Oloirowua, Olomayiana Ndogo, and... Read More

Melia Volkensii, an endogenous hardwood and the KenGen Foundation’s School Green Initiative Challenge flagship tree species, was the main focus during a forestry stakeholders’ workshop held at the University of Nairobi, Kabete Campus held on 30th August. The workshop convened to discuss the challenges, benefits and way forward of cultivating Melia volkensii, was graced by... Read More

One of the interventions outlined in Kenya’s Strategy for reaching 10 per cent forest cover is the use of technology in forest regeneration, protection and planting. As a result, drone technology is one of the possibilities being touted as potentially capable of reaching this goal. According to Anthony Igecha, Managing Trustee of the KenGen Foundation,... Read More

A visit to KenGen PLC Kipevu Power Station on the second day of their excursion was an eye opener for the thirty Ielanthi Primary School students on 5th June. The pupils were awarded an educational trip courtesy of the Schools Green Inititative Challenge for emerging tops in Phase IV of the tree planting competition. A... Read More

Arriving at the end of KenGen Kamburu Power Station’s descending tunnel, 30 young environmentalists from Ndelekeni Primary School, Machakos County, gazed in amazement at the massive machinery and rumbling turbines as they prepared for their tour of the power plant on 26 May. The students, accompanied by their Green Teachers Raphael Mbithi and Boniface Mukanda,... Read More

Arriving at the end of KenGen Masinga Power Station’s , 30 young environmentalists from Kamathitu Secondary School, Mwingi County, gazed in amazement at the massive machinery and rumbling turbines as they prepared for their tour of the power plant on 29 September. The students, accompanied by their Green Teachers William Mukundi and Peter Mutua, Principal... Read More

A field trip by a team from KenGen Foundation to Murang’a County community bamboo growing project sites was conducted on 19 January in partnership with bamboo experts Green Pot Enterprises, and representatives from Water Resource Users Association and the local government. Ambrose Njagi, the Foundation’s Senior Fundraising Officer was accompanied by Ernest Nyamasyo, Elishibah Msengeti... Read More