Commonwealth Housing Trust

We seek to assist marginalised communities who are striving to provide themselves with stable, healthy, living environments. More specifically, we aim to support community-led initiatives, particularly projects in areas with acute housing need and especially when they have the potential to provide valuable models for delivery in future projects. We have minimal overheads and administration costs and depend entirely on donations, grants and sponsorship. From the outset, the Commonwealth Housing Trust project in Korogocho, Nairobi, has been conceived as a potential model for supporting people living in slums who want to work together to help themselves in securing decent housing which they can afford. MWAMKO was founded in 2006 when a group of 25 families in Nairobi’s Korogocho slum first came together to consider how they might help themselves to secure decent homes for their families, away from the slum. Registered UK Charity Number: 1102126.