#ImprovingLives
Giving back to local communities has been a commitment of Davis & Shirtliff since its founding in 1946...
Giving back to local communities has been a commitment of Davis & Shirtliff since its founding in 1946. Through Corporate Social Responsibility, we help solve some of our most pressing challenges and unlock the potential of communities. We implement sustainability- focused corporate strategies and interventions through a multi-sectorial approach designed to end poverty, inequality, climate change and environmental degradation.
Davis and Shirtliff is converging people, technology and resources to improve lives in Africa through cooperation and a resolve to find sustainable solutions to existing challenges. We continue to deploy millions of shillings in both resources and time to address these challenges. Our goal is to achieve real impact on people, the communities they live in, the society and ultimately our planet to preserve it for future generations.
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Lack of access to clean water is a key factor in students’ academic performance and attendance rates. Kibuye Girls is a girls’ primary day school in Kisumu County, Kenya. It sources learners from disadvantaged backgrounds such as the informal settlements of Obunga,
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Drowning is often under looked as a public death threat. According to the Kenya police records, about 4,607 deaths in 2018 alone were caused by drowning. Every year, many people in Lamu die from drowning, and one of the causes of this is that many don’t know how to swim. A local charity has set up in Lamu to teach people how to swim in an effort to mitigate this risk. Being a predominantly conservative community, there are challenges around girls/ women swimming, which the charity specifically tackles head on.
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About 275 km from Kenya’s capital, lies Ngundune, a semi-arid region in Meru County, Kenya. The region is prone to regular draught and as a result, is lacking in reliable sources of water. The ripple effect of this lack, is hardship,
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Water has often been rightly described as the integral ingredient of life and at Davis and Shirtliff, all efforts have been made to improving the quality and management of this precious resource.
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While Kenya’s free primary education policy has obvious benefits, the influx of new students since the program was implemented in 2003 has put considerable strain on available facilities. In Ayany Primary School, Nairobi, one class has 98 pupils and the entire school itself has more than 2,600 students.
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Tumaini children’s home deals with children who were negatively impacted by the post-election violence of 2007-2008. The home offers refuge to street mothers and their nursing babies, orphans who have no place to call home and underprivileged children whose parents cannot afford to take them to school.
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Dundori Road, Industrial Area
Nairobi
P.O Box P.O Box 41762 - 00100
Kenya
