Established in 1997, Slums Information Development and Resource Centres (SIDAREC) firmly believes that community problems necessitate community solutions. This idea has driven the organisation’s groundbreaking work to empower and educate the underprivileged residents of Nairobi’s vast Pumwani and Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums for over ten years.

All activities are designed to tap the skills and talents already existing within the community, especially the youth, for the common benefit.  SIDAREC combats apathy by encouraging and facilitating young people to stimulate positive change in their own neighbourhoods, and across Kenya.
As a crucial element of its operation, SIDAREC devised the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme in collaboration with local administration and youth participants. Since their launch, over 5,000 children have benefited from these centres, numbers of street children in the surrounding neighbourhoods have dropped by approximately 40%, and 3,000 children have continued their education, with school reports indicating that they are among the top performers.

SIDAREC is a trusted and much appreciated organisation with strong insight into what people really need, and the energy and resourcefulness to make a tangible difference that reverberates throughout the communities it serves.