we are S.A.F.E.
We exist to create and distribute powerful stories about complex, taboo and sensitive issues to allow for health, gender and environmental justice to take hold.
S.A.F.E.’s work is only possible due to the generosity of our donors and partners.
Every donation goes to our arts-based community programmes which use high-quality performance, film, and storytelling to solve some of Kenya’s most urgent challenges.
OUR WORK
S.A.F.E. fearlessly tells stories about complex, taboo and sensitive issues. S.A.F.E. addresses hard to talk about topics in the realms of health, gender and the environment. Our three streams of work, from grassroots community development to the creation and distribution of internationally recognised films create a two-way stream of information. Providing a much-needed authentic voice in spaces of power, and ensuring that no individual gets left behind.
Grassroots Community Development through Arts
Our three grassroots teams deliver interactive theatre interventions to educate and crowd-source solutions to health, gender and environmental issues. This solutions form the basis of follow up community based activities.
S.A.F.E. Productions and Mobile Cinema
S.A.F.E.’s award winning films are co-created with the communities we serve. They feed into our community work through S.A.F.E.’s mobile cinema, and supliment advocacy work through our partners. They have also entertained Kenyan’s for over a decade.
Impact Partnerships
S.A.F.E. works with a variety of impact partners such as health centres, Universities, social impact businesses and film makers. Through these partnerships, S.A.F.E. uses arts to increase our partners community engagement and improve services in S.A.F.E.’s communities.
SAFE Pwani
SAFE Pwani has been delivering community projects at the Kenyan Coast since 2002. Projects focus on HIV awareness, justice and access to services for survivors of GBV, mental health, climate change adaptation and peace.
SAFE Maa
SAFE Maa, in the Loita Hills, Narok County, has been in operation since 2005. Projects focus on ending FGM/C, increasing girls education, adaptation to climate change, and safeguarding land onwership of vulnerable people.
SAFE Samburu, in the Westgate Conservancy, Samburu County, replicated the work of SAFE Maa and started in 2016. Projects focus on HIV awareness and access to medication for PLWH, ending FGM/C, increasing girls education and adaptation to climate change.
ABOUT US
S.A.F.E. is an arts for social change NGO working in some of Kenya’s most vulnerable and marginalised communities through our 3 grassroots, local teams. We are guided by the principle that communities know what is best for them, and thus employ teams of local actors to design and deliver projects.
Through participatory, artistic techniques, communities are brought together to co-create solutions to their most pressing problems. This gives the target beneficiaries ownership over the project’s messaging, implementation and long-term success – resulting in increased uptake, willingness to engage, relevance and sustainability, as actions are based on local resources and indigenous knowledge.
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