Building a childcare system that works.
A locally rooted, evidence-driven approach to early childhood care.
Our Founding Story
In 2014, after visiting informal childcare centres in Nairobi's informal settlements, Sabrina Habib saw firsthand the challenges facing young children in unregulated childcare environments. At the same time, she recognized that millions of working parents relied on these providers every day and that building a small number of new centres would never address the scale of the problem.
Together with co-founder Afzal Habib, she launched Kidogo with a different question: how could quality childcare be improved where it already existed? What began with two pilot centres in Kibera evolved into a model that works alongside local women operating childcare businesses in their communities, improving quality while strengthening livelihoods and creating pathways for systems-level change.
OUR STORY
The Kidogo Journey
Over the past decade, Kidogo has grown into Kenya’s largest childcare network, combining direct delivery with systems change to transform how childcare is delivered and regulated nationally.
OUR APPROACH
Delivery & Systems Change at Scale
Since founding Kidogo has worked closely with government at the national and county level, with the goals of regulations, licensing and quality standards.
Kidogo operates as both a direct service provider and a systems actor. The two reinforce each other: delivery generates the evidence which earns the policy influence, and the policy scales the impact beyond what any single organisation's network can reach.
OUR IMPACT
A decade of Impact
Over the past decade, Kidogo has grown into Kenya’s largest childcare network, combining direct delivery with systems change to transform how childcare is delivered and regulated nationally.
10 YEARS
50,000 +
CHILDREN REACHED
65%
REDUCTION IN OFF-TRACK DEVELOPMENT
90% +
OF CHILDREN ARE SCHOOL-READY WHEN THEY GRADUATE
2,000 +
CHILDCARE PROVIDERS
90% +
OF CENTRES MEETING STANDARDS
OUR TEAM
Our Board
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CO FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
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DIRECTOR
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DIRECTOR
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DIRECTOR