Twenty Years
of Impact
Since 2006, we have invested in the people, institutions, and ecosystems of Kenya — because real change requires all three.
Our Philosophy
Investing in People
and the Places They Protect
We identify and advance partnerships with proven local organizations, then resource them to achieve sustainable change.
Rather than arriving with external solutions, March to the Top Africa backs the leaders and institutions already doing the work. Our three focus areas are interdependent: healthy communities protect ecosystems; conserved landscapes support livelihoods; economic stability enables investment in the next generation.
Most of our partnerships span a decade or more, because meaningful change does not happen in a single grant cycle. We fund what works, and we stop funding what doesn’t.
Health
Quality care for indigent and remote communities, from Nairobi's most crowded settlements to Kenya's borderlands.
Education
Inclusive education and pathways out of poverty, for orphans, children with disabilities, and students in remote and nomadic communities.
Conservation
Biodiversity protected by empowered local communities, from elephant research to anti-poaching patrols.
Our commitment to donors
100% of every donation goes directly to our projects. The March Family Foundation covers all of M2T Africa’s administrative and overhead costs, so every dollar you give reaches the communities, children, and ecosystems we serve. We have honored this since 2006.
Health Impact
Healthcare Where It Matters Most
Partnerships reaching from Nairobi’s densest urban settlement to Kenya’s most remote borderlands, building hospitals, sustaining HIV clinics, and restoring sight.
Babies delivered at Brother Andre Hospital since opening in 2017
HIV patients receiving completely free Antiretroviral Treatment at DREAM Kenya Trust
Viral load suppression at DREAM, exceeding the WHO global target
Life-saving cardiac surgeries on children through MEAK pediatric missions
Outpatient visits per year at Brother Andre Hospital, Dandora
Sight-restoring surgical procedures across M2T-funded MEAK missions
Partner since 2013
Brother Andre Hospital
Dandora, Nairobi · serving 500,000+ people
M2T funded the community needs assessment that revealed women in Dandora are twice as likely to die in childbirth than elsewhere in Kenya, then funded the construction of what is now a Level 4 hospital with no comparable alternative in the area. Recognized in 2026 as the best Level 4 faith-based facility in Nairobi County.
4,000+ babies delivered · 33,000+ outpatient visits per year
Partner since 2016
DREAM Kenya Trust
Tigania West, Meru County
The only completely free HIV care in Tigania West, a rural sub-county where the alternative is no care at all. DREAM’s clinic also provides TB screening, cervical cancer screening, HPV vaccination, and nutritional support, making it a comprehensive primary health facility for one of Kenya’s most underserved communities.
741 patients on free Antiretroviral Treatment · 96% viral load suppression
Partner since 2012
MEAK
Remote Kenya-wide medical missions
Medical missions to communities that specialist healthcare has never reached. MEAK brings eye surgeons and cardiac specialists, by lorry and plane, to counties at the edge of Kenya’s health system. M2T-funded missions have reached Wajir, Mandera, Siaya, Isiolo, and Kwale.
1,300+ sight-restoring surgeries · 37 children’s heart operations
Conservation Impact
Protecting Kenya's Wildlife and Wild Places
Across Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa, our conservation partnerships protect elephants, lions, rhinos, and the communities and rangers who guard them.
Hectares patrolled across Sera, Biliqo-Bulesa and Melako conservancies
Living elephants in Amboseli monitored individually across 52 years of field research
Lions under long-term study in the Maasai Mara, 2024 survey
Critically endangered black rhinos safeguarded at Ol Pejeta, the largest population in East Africa
Rangers insured annually through For Rangers
Rhino poaching deaths across M2T-supported conservancies since 2015
Since 2012
Kenya Wildlife Trust
Greater Mara · Predator research and conservation
The only longitudinal predator study in the Mara ecosystem. 459 lions and 22 cheetahs — the Mara’s entire resident cheetah population — under continuous study. M2T also funds Wildlife Clubs in 21 Mara-area schools, equipping the next generation of Kenyan conservationists.
459 lions and 22 cheetahs monitored · 21 Wildlife Club schools
Since 2008
Amboseli Trust for Elephants
M2T’s longest-running conservation partnership. 1,903 living elephants across 65 family units, supported by 52 uninterrupted years of individual-level field data. ATE’s presence in Amboseli has helped insure the survival of both the elephants and the broader ecosystem they sustain.
1,903 elephants monitored · 52 years of continuous field research
Since 2017
For Rangers
Sub-Saharan Africa · Ranger life insurance
Eight consecutive years of ranger life insurance coverage, protecting nearly 5,000 rangers and their families across 11 counties. These are the people on the front line of Africa’s wildlife protection.
5,000 rangers insured annually · 11 countries
Education and Child Welfare
Education That Transforms Futures
Over 20 years and 18 partnerships, our education giving has reached children at the highest risk of slipping through Kenya’s social and educational safety nets — and stayed with them.
Children given a home at AINA since founding, 159 of whom were HIV-positive at admission
Students at Paolo Academy, including children from the wider Meru community
SAM Elimu university graduates now working as teachers, engineers, and healthcare workers across Kenya
Children with disabilities housed and educated at Kivuli Trust each year
Wildlife Clubs in Mara-area schools, shaping future conservationists
AINA graduates successfully reintegrated into family and community life
Partner since 2008
New Hope – AINA
Meru County · Kenya's largest home for HIV-positive children
M2T co-founded AINA in 2008. Today it houses 97 children, enrolls 498 students at Paolo Academy, and runs a dispensary serving 600+ community patients. It remains the largest home for HIV-positive children in Kenya — a distinction made possible by 17 years of consistent co-funding.
196 children housed since founding · 1,350+ children educated
Partner since 2012
SAM Elimu
Kenya-wide cradle-to-career scholarships
Full scholarships for vulnerable and orphaned children, from primary school through university. With 140+ active students and more than 100 university graduates now working across Kenya’s professional sector, SAM Elimu represents one of M2T Africa’s most tangible long-term returns.
201 graduates · annual high school conference for 70 students
Partner since 2025
Kivuli Trust
Gilgil Special School, Rift Valley
M2T’s investments have opened access to essential resources and infrastructure for children with physical and intellectual disabilities at Kivuli Trust, improving the quality and continuity of daily care for 68 children who depend on the school’s specialized support. Kivuli holds Government Centre of Excellence status.
68 children housed and educated · 110+ enrolled at school
2026 · Our 20th Year
Renewing Our Commitment
We began in 2006 with a climb of Kilimanjaro and a conviction that meaningful change requires patient, relational investment in local people and local institutions. Twenty years later, that conviction is unchanged — and our ambition is growing.
01
More Rigorous Assessment
Holding every investment to a higher standard of evidence, outcome measurement, and financial accountability, so that our giving compounds rather than simply accumulates.
02
New High-Impact Projects
In 2026, two significant new partnerships address unmet need at the intersection of health, education, and conservation, bringing our active portfolio to eleven organizations.
03
Deeper Community Ownership
Prioritizing partners where local leadership is not an aspiration but an operating reality, because the most real change is led from within, by local people and local knowledge.
Two New 2026 Investments
Growing the Portfolio
Both new partners reflect exactly what M2T Africa is deepening in its 20th year: community-led, outcomes-focused, and rooted in the conviction that local people are the most powerful agents of lasting change.
New Conservation Partner
Ewaso Lions
Samburu and Isiolo Counties, Northern Kenya · 4,500 km² landscape
Ewaso Lions conserves Kenya’s lions and other large carnivores by promoting coexistence between people and wildlife — engaging warriors, elders, women, herders, and children across 11 community conservancies. Programs range from Warrior Watch, which trains Samburu warriors to monitor lion movements and prevent retaliatory killings, to Mama Simba, designed by Samburu women to reclaim their place as owners and protectors of wildlife, to Lion Kids Camp, which brings the next generation of Kenyan conservationists into the field.
M2T 2026 Grant
Funds operational costs of the Warrior Watch program: warrior salaries, training, monitoring vehicles, and field equipment, directly sustaining 7 full-time warriors across 5 conservancies.
New Health Partner
Communities Health Africa Trust
Laikipia County · Mt. Kenya Ecosystem and Nanyuki Urban Settlements
Founded in 2000 with a simple insight: maternal health and environmental health are the same problem. CHAT is built on a simple insight: maternal health and environmental health are the same problem. It is the only organization in Kenya to formally integrate community health with conservation through its People, Environment, and Health framework. CHATs model uses Community Own Resource Persons – local people selected by the communities themselves – who conduct door-to-door visits delivering maternal health education, referrals, and environmental awareness while continuing their own livelihoods.
M2T 2026 Grant
Supports a 12-month program reaching approximately 3,120 people, connecting around 2,400 women to reproductive health choices, facilitating antenatal care referrals, and integrating environmental stewardship to ease pressure on the Mt. Kenya ecosystem.
Join Us for the Next Twenty Years
Join Us for the Next Decade
What M2T provides is not transactional. It is the sustained, year-after-year presence of a donor who shows up — for the building of a classroom, the salary of a carer, the vehicle that gets a warrior to the field — that gives each of these organizations the stability to do their most important work.
Our third decade begins now. We are asking our donors to double down with us: to back real change in Kenya at the moment it matters most.
Kilimanjaro 2026 · Bookending Twenty Years
Twenty Years On,
We Climb Again.
In 2006, a climb of Kilimanjaro set this foundation in motion. In 2026, we are returning to that summit — to mark twenty years of partnerships, children, communities, and wildlife that would not be where they are today without the people who chose to invest alongside us.
We have co-founded Kenya’s largest HIV-positive children’s home, helped protect the largest black rhino population in East Africa, restored sight for thousands of patients who had no other path to care, and built eleven partnerships that communities now lead themselves. None of it happened in a single grant cycle. All of it happened because donors showed up, year after year. We want you to show up again — and to climb into our third decade with us.