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Fund the building. The programme is already proven.
We’re not asking anyone to fund an idea. We’re asking funders to convert an outpatient practice that already works into a residential centre that can finish what it starts.
The ask
A one-time establishment grant
We’re raising a one-time establishment grant plus Year 1 operating support to convert our existing outpatient service into a residential facility — not a request for recurring funding in perpetuity. Full budget details are available on request.
What your support builds
Capital
The physical facility
Establishing the residential centre itself — the beds, medical equipment, and safety infrastructure a supervised detox and recovery programme requires.
Medical
A stocked detox supply
A comprehensive, fully stocked detoxification medication supply for medically supervised withdrawal management.
Operations
Year 1 running costs
Staffing, training for community health workers, and operating costs through the first year, while the residential programme establishes itself.
What this grant is expected to deliver
Residential beds
Serving a meaningful first cohort of residential patients in Year 1.
Expanded outpatient reach
Continued and expanded outpatient consultations alongside residential care.
Strong completion rates
The majority of admitted patients completing the full 90-day programme.
Trained & certified CHWs
Community health workers equipped in addiction first aid and referral.
The case for funding Safeways
There is no affordable alternative. Not a theoretical gap — a fact. People are dying from unsupervised withdrawal on the streets of Huruma, Korogocho, Kariobangi, and Mathare because medically supervised detox is out of reach. This project meets that gap with a concrete, costed plan.
The clinician isn’t learning on the job. Susan Mwende Mutegi has spent over two decades working with exactly these clients, in exactly these settings. This grant funds the application of mastery, not a training exercise.
This isn’t a request for funding forever. It’s a one-time establishment grant plus Year 1 support. From Year 3, the centre is designed to cover a majority of its own costs through tiered fees, government partnerships, and a social enterprise selling goods made by clients in reintegration.
The multiplier effect is real. Every person who recovers reduces crime, domestic violence, and HIV transmission risk in their household. Across a population of 800,000, that ripple effect compounds.
This converts an existing service — it doesn’t start from zero. The outpatient base, the community relationships, and the clinical leadership already exist. This grant turns an established service into a residential one, which lowers risk and speeds up impact.
Beyond the grant
Safeways is designed to reduce its dependence on grant funding over time, through a tiered fee structure that keeps care affordable while higher-income clients cross-subsidise sliding-scale patients; a social enterprise selling vocational products made by clients in the reintegration phase; and continued applications to institutional funders, including UNODC, GIZ Kenya, USAID, and WHO Kenya, for programme-specific support.
Ready to talk?
Whether you’re a funder, a partner organisation, or want to make an individual contribution, we’d welcome the conversation — including a full budget breakdown on request.