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 completed programme in Malaa, Machakos County — a fully sponsored school, hyena coping lessons, and five seedlings to each homestead every rainy season.
Done project — fully sponsored school, hyena lessons, and five seedlings each rainy season.
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
Across Kenya
Problem Free Movement works in 42 counties. On this page we walk three of them in full — Nairobi, Kiambu, and Machakos, where we sponsor Baraka Hawali School in Malaa. The other counties are not a side note. They are the work.
A girl kept from school is the same child in Kisumu as in Mathare.
Three counties, up close
County 01
Nairobi
Mathare sits beside Muthaiga. The city looks well-off until you walk the other side of the wall.
County 02
Kiambu
Settlements the county average still misses — Githurai to Gachagi.
County 03
Machakos
Baraka Hawali School, fully sponsored by PFWM, sits in Malaa. Each nearby homestead receives five tree seedlings every rainy season.
Stories
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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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One of PFWM’s objectives is to network with organisations, agencies, and individuals who share the aim. Named partner marks appear here only when they are approved in writing.
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