PFWM
We are people of action
An indigenous Kenyan movement that trains, places, and walks with communities — especially girls from low-income areas.
Our focus
For more than twenty years we have organised around the rights a girl in informal housing still cannot take for granted.
Sustained action
The girl of the slum: our target beneficiary
Water, school, a toilet she can reach, food, a room, and someone who will hear her. PFWM builds programmes around that week.
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PFWM community programme
Baraka Hawali School, Malaa
A fully sponsored school in Malaa — classrooms, five seedlings to each homestead every rainy season, and lessons that help children stay safe from hyenas.
Working figure — replace with monitoring data before treating as an audited result.
PFWM community programme
Safe water points, Kariobangi
Community-managed kiosks that cut the walk and the cartel price.
Working figure — replace with monitoring data before treating as an audited result.
PFWM community programme
Sanitary dignity, Mathare
Pads, privacy, and a lock on the school latrine door.
Working figure — replace with monitoring data before treating as an audited result.
42 counties
The whole map
Nairobi and Kiambu are two postcodes we can walk you through. Problem Free Movement works in 42 counties — lake, coast, highland, dryland — and a school we fully sponsor in Malaa is one classroom on that map.
The girl of the slum is not a Nairobi-only problem.
Field notes we can walk
County 01
Nairobi
Mathare sits beside Muthaiga. The city looks well-off until you walk the other side of the wall.
County 02
Kiambu
Peri-urban settlements the county averages still miss.
County 03
Machakos
Baraka Hawali School, fully sponsored by PFWM, sits in Malaa. Each nearby homestead receives five tree seedlings every rainy season.
Stories
Stories
News
School introduces hyena lessons to help children cope amid increased attacks
At the PFWM-sponsored school in Malaa, Machakos, learners are taught how to identify hyenas and protect themselves as attacks rise around Oldonyo Sabuk.
Sep 23, 2026
News
Greening Malaa area is at top gear
In Kaseveni, Malaa, the school Problem Free Movement sponsors plants with the community — five seedlings to each homestead every rainy season.
Sep 22, 2026
Article
Why the girl of the slum
She is the route to real change — not because she is a symbol, but because her week is the week of the settlement.
Sep 16, 2026
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