The Dariu Foundation · Kenya
We have worked in Kenya since January 2025 — training teachers, partnering with counties, and opening Dariu Tech Clubs™ where young people learn to build with technology rather than simply consume it. This is the home of our Kenya operations: what we run, where we run it, and how to reach us.
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Our work
The Dariu Foundation is an international charitable foundation that empowers young people through digital education, with programmes across Southeast Asia and Africa. Under our 2026–2030 strategy — The AI Initiative: Empowering the Next Generation — Kenya is where that vision meets the classroom.
Our flagship here is the Dariu Tech Club™ Applied AI Literacy programme. It began in Kilifi County's vocational training centres in January 2025 and now runs through three delivery streams: two county-wide VTC programmes on the coast, and a national secondary-school pathway with The President's Award – Kenya.
We measure ourselves on what remains when we step back: certified local trainers, working clubs, and county partnerships on formal footing.
Formal MoUs with the County Governments of Kilifi and Taita Taveta anchor every programme in public institutions.
We certify local educators who then train their peers — the engine that lets the programme grow without growing dependent on us.
School-based clubs where learners apply AI tools to projects of their own — and showcase them to their communities.
Programmes
From the coast outward: each stream carries the same curriculum and the same cascade model, adapted to its institutions.
Stream A
Where it began. From a seven-centre pilot, the programme now runs in 42 vocational training centres across the county.
Active · since Jan 2025
Stream B
Launched with the County Government in Voi on 3 July 2026, bringing the programme to 32 vocational training centres.
Launched · Jul 2026
Stream C
An Engagement Framework signed in May 2026 brings Applied AI Literacy into ≈60 pilot senior secondary schools — Award Centres spanning 26 counties and 8 regions.
Piloting · national
Opportunity is what we are here to redistribute.George JilaniChief Representative, Kenya
Milestones
The first Dariu Tech Clubs™ open inside vocational training centres, in partnership with the County Government.
Country leadership is appointed and operations are coordinated from Nairobi.
The President's Award – Kenya partnership opens a national pathway into senior secondary schools.
At Mariakani VTC, more than 80 Master Trainers are certified and 13 student projects go on show for the county.
Alongside the County Government, Stream B begins across 32 vocational training centres.
54 Taita-Taveta instructors start four weeks of training towards certification as Dariu Foundation Master Trainers.
Master Trainer graduation in Taita-Taveta in August; lead-centre showcases in Voi, Mwanjila and Taveta in September; and in October, an Inter-County Regional Showcase bringing the coastal counties together.
In production
A documentary following Dariu Tech Club™ learners and trainers across the Kenyan coast — the question we ask every student, put to film. Shooting through August 2026.
Partners
Every programme rests on formal agreements with county governments and national institutions — and on the educators who carry it daily.
Team
County governments, schools, funders, media, and fellow travellers: if our work speaks to yours, we would like to hear from you.
Country office
Nairobi, Kenya
Global foundation
dariu.org
Safeguarding concern?
Write to george@dariu.org with the subject line "Safeguarding" — it reaches our Safeguarding Lead directly and is treated in confidence.