Nisria

We are a community based organization in Nakuru, Kenya, creating a safe haven for vulnerable children and women. Our mission is to provide vulnerable communities, especially children, with a safe space to heal and therefore prosper. Inspired by a grandmother’s love: nisria, our founder’s late grandmother, lived an inspiring life. nisria demonstrated how to show true compassion and love to others, whenever and wherever — and now we show up to do this in her honor every day. Our beginnings: Founder Nur M'nasria, an accomplished TV and film producer, first visited the slums of Kenya in 2015 to film an episode about the area. At a children’s home within one of the slums, the group met kids who would see themselves on a screen for the first time. Another first was to see someone with a lighter skin color, evidenced by their scratching at Nur’s skin with tiny fingers to check if there was another layer of skin with a different color. “At that moment I knew I had to come back soon, so I did.” — Founder Nur M’nasria