About Us - GREDO Grassroots Empowerment and Development Organization

About GREDO

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GREDO KENYA

Grassroots Empowerment and Development Organization (GREDO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities across Kenya. We focus on child protection, education, health and nutrition, livelihoods, peacebuilding, and access to clean water and sanitation. Through strategic partnerships, we work to deliver sustainable solutions that improve lives and strengthen communities.

Our Mission

To empower grassroots communities as a foundation for achieving sustainable development in South Sudan.

Our Vission

To see communities empowered with knowledge and skills, with access to basic needs, and with the capacity for self-sustainability.

Our Journey

Grassroots Empowerment and Development Organization (GREDO Kenya) is a nonprofit organization established in 2026 to address critical development and humanitarian needs across Kenya, particularly in underserved and marginalized communities. Building on a strong foundation of grassroots engagement, GREDO Kenya is committed to reaching vulnerable populations with inclusive and sustainable solutions.

With a mission to serve those most in need, GREDO Kenya focuses on key thematic areas including child protection, education, food security and livelihoods, peacebuilding, health, nutrition, and WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene).

While Kenya has made significant development progress, many communities especially in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), informal urban settlements, and remote rural areas continue to face persistent challenges. GREDO Kenya seeks to bridge these gaps by delivering impactful, community-driven interventions that improve lives and build resilience.

GREDO Kenya operates with a growing presence, starting from its national coordination office in Nairobi and expanding programs across priority regions, including northern Kenya, coastal areas, and informal urban settlements where vulnerability levels remain high.

Through strategic partnerships with government institutions, local communities, and national and international organizations, GREDO Kenya works to strengthen systems and empower individuals. Our approach emphasizes collaboration, sustainability, and local ownership to ensure long-term impact.

As we begin our journey in Kenya, GREDO Kenya is dedicated to fostering a society where children, women, and communities live in safety, health, and dignity with access to education, economic opportunities, and a supportive environment for growth and development.

➢ To increases provision of basic and holistic development services that strengthens resilience aiming
at reducing extreme poverty, illiteracy and injustice among vulnerable communities (women, girls
and the disabled).
➢ To improve access to inclusive learning, protection, mental health and psychosocial support
services (MHPSS), health & Nutrition services among the vulnerable communities by providing
timely life-saving assistance and enhancing community ownership and sustainability.
➢ To elevate the capacity of women/girls and youth through trainings, employment, encourage equal
participation in decision-making; enhance enterprises scheme and inter- cultural mutual bond that
build tranquility between communities.
➢ To coordinate and collaborate with local, national, regional, international, charitable institutions,
foundations, individuals, donors and UN agencies to share skills, knowledge and information
pertaining to achieving holistic transformational development and community welfare

i. Transparency and Accountability

GREDO employs best standards in management and utilization of resources in order to make a difference
through learning, sharing and practicing new ideas and information. GREDO believes that citizens have a
right to hold governments and institutions accountable, to expect them to respect their rights and do what
they say they will do. Likewise, we believe that non-governmental organizations should be accountable to
the communities in which they work, to partner organizations, and to those from whom they receive
support.
ii. Humanity
GREDO takes and considers with high esteem the set humanitarian principles of humanity; the mandated
principles to respond to situations based on need with the most vulnerable prioritize with full aim of aiding.
Human suffering must be addressed wherever and whenever it is found. The purpose of humanitarian action
is to protect life and ensure respect for human beings.
iii. People and Safety
GREDO acknowledge and recognize the skills and abilities of our co- workers and would like to draw
strengths from our diversity and commitment to equal opportunity. We work and live safely! We protect
human life, preserve property, and put employees’ safety before production.
iv. Excellence Service
We are committed to provision of quality services, in all sectors that we intend to work in. We are leaders
and managers that solve issues; we intend to provide support to our partners both relief, emergency
interventions and development and to satisfy the communities that we serve, we love them and work with
them with a do-no-harm concept and attitude we work together and with others to respond effectively to
their needs.
v. Integrity and Respect
We are honest and responsible in all that we do and hold ourselves to the highest moral and ethical
standards. We respect others, and we always act with courage and humility.

vi. Community Empowerment
GREDO believes that given timely and appropriate support, communities have an inherent ability to pull
themselves out of poverty. Therefore, the approach adopted when implementing our programs is fully
participatory; in which ideas from the affected communities form the foundation of our planning, design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all initiatives. We also expect full commitment to these
values from our staffs, partners and targeted beneficiaries.
vii. Non-Allied (Social Inclusiveness)
GREDO is not a political or a commercial organization; we are a charity organization committed to
alleviating human beings from all f suffering We are therefore fully committed on providing emergencies
relief, humanitarian, early recovery and development support to all communities irrespective of religion,
gender, creed, political affiliation, tribe etc.