Miti School Programme
Shaping mindsets, one classroom at a time.
We partner with public and community schools across Kenya to give children hands-on environmental education — and the trees, tools and training to put it into practice.
Real environmental change starts young. The Miti Schools Programme brings 40-minute lessons and field expeditions into partner schools, covering conservation, biodiversity and climate change in a way children can see and touch — not just read about.
Every partner school gets support to plant fruit and indigenous trees, set up a tree nursery, and establish a kitchen garden and orchard, backed by teacher training and a full year of monthly follow-up visits from our field team.
Since we began, the programme has trained teachers, launched environmental clubs, and put trees in the ground with the help of the very children who will watch them grow up.
We work with county education authorities and school administrators to identify partner schools, and with corporate and institutional partners — including I&M Foundation, National Bank, Prime Bank, Equity Bank, Bank of Africa, Citi Bank and the Kenya Forest Service — to fund and deliver each school’s programme.
KEY STATS TO FEATURE
- 28,000+ school children reached with environmental education (Kiambu & Nyeri hubs)
- 500+ fruit and indigenous tree seedlings planted across 70 schools
- 265 schools reached across 19 counties since 2018, over 100,000 learners engaged (organisation-wide, cumulative — see flag)
- Recognised as Environmental Education Organisation of the Year, 2022
WHAT A SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP INCLUDES
- Site assessment, soil testing and baseline survey
- Fencing, a water tank and drip irrigation system
- A kitchen garden, fruit orchard and school woodlot
- In-class and field training for teachers and CBC classes (grades 4–9)
- Environmental curriculum materials for every learner
- A full year of monthly follow-up visits
- Fruit trees for participating parents and teachers to take home
Other related programmes
Miti Kitchen Gardens
Regenerative food gardens that feed school feeding programmes
Miyawaki Forests
Dense, fast-growing native micro-forests on school and community land
Miti Museum
A living seed bank and tree museum at the foot of Mt Kenya, open for tours, training and stays
Be part of a lasting change
Fund the next forest, garden or classroom.
Every gift goes directly to a specific, budgeted need — a water tank, a fence, a season of seedlings, a forest. Choose a school below, or fund what's needed most.