• Empowering Women

    NLPF works to empower women in order to create an equal society and invest in our currently underutilized human capital.

  • Empowering Children

    NLPF seeks to cater for children and their needs.

  • Empowering Communities

    NLPF seeks to work with communities in conflict areas to prevent violence and provide a platform for dialogue and ultimately peace restoration.

  • Empowering Youth

    NLPF seeks to work to empower youth in order to create an equal society.

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PEACEBUILDING

NLPF seeks to work with communities in conflict areas to prevent violence and provide a platform for dialogue and ultimately peace restoration.

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EDUCATION PROMOTION

This program aims to promote education throughout Samburu County. Education can ease other struggles such as poverty, war, ignorance, and disease.

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YOUTH AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

This program works to empower youth and women in order to create an equal society and invest in our currently underutilized human capital.

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Conflict Resolution

We create meetings between divided communities, and so opening up a dialogue that enables them to discuss and resolve issues.

Education Promotion

This program aims to promote education throughout Samburu County. Education can ease other struggles such as poverty, war, ignorance, and disease.

Leadership Training

We equip young women with leadership skills and create spaces that facilitate young men and women to lead social change. We share information and resources to build leadership skills.

Youth and women empowerment

This program works to empower youth and women in order to create an equal society and invest in our currently underutilized human capital.

Programs

NLPF seeks to work with communities in conflict areas to prevent violence and provide a platform for dialogue and ultimately peace restoration. The Foundation works with warring communities to deepen the collective understanding of the conflict and bring together the communities to create a platform to resolve their differences peacefully. The Foundation acts as a first-time responder to conflicts, We build peace through encouraging genuine partnerships, promoting comparative learning through a tailored approach, and engagement whilst not taking sides. Leadership training equips young women with leadership skills and create spaces that facilitate young men and women to lead social change. We share information and resources to build leadership skills.

About Our Founder

Naisula Lesuuda in her early days worked as a journalist at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation where she hosted  Good morning Kenya in  2009, after ten people were killed in cattle rustling in Laikipia, she became a founding member of the Laikipia Peace Caravan. This in turn led to the founding of a number of other local peace organizations, supported by the Kenya government. This is where she left her job to found the Naisula Lesuuda Peace Foundation which advocates for the education of girls and for the eradication of female genital mutilation and child marriage, community peacebuilding, education promotion, and economic empowerment programs for women and youth, health promotion and environmental conservation.

Our Partners

Ongoing projects

  1. Distribution of sanitary towels to primary and secondary school girls in Kisima Girls, St. Theresa’s Wamba, Wamba Girls, Nkuroto Mixed, Bishop Perlo Girls, Sereolipi Day School, Springs of Hope Children’s Home, Suguta Girls rescue center, Baragoi Girls, Tuum Girls among others in partnership with Mfariji Africa, Zana Africa, Garden of Hope Foundation and Governor Mike ‘Sonko’ Mbuvi.
  2. We have also begun the distribution of sanitary towels in Primary schools including Lerata, Lchoro, Lorok, Maralal DEB, and Loikas, the objective being to cover the whole of Samburu County.
  3. Construction of the ‘NaiSonko’ library at AIC Moi Girls High School in Maralal.
  4. Construction of a computer laboratory and dining hall at Maralal DEB Primary School in partnership with MTN Business Kenya and provision of books, computers, tablets, and digital content.
  5. Renovation of a computer lab for St. Paul’s Primary school ahead of a donation by the Ministry of Education of Computers and digital content.
  6. Peace tournaments in the 3 Samburu sub-counties in partnership with Kenya Commercial Bank Foundation, Equity Group Foundation, and Kenya Red Cross.
  7. Scholarship programs, peace training among others.

OUR PURPOSE

To be a role model organization in promoting the peaceful coexistence of pastoral communities, promoting access to education for vulnerable children, and economically empowering women and youth in Samburu County.

OUR FOCUS AREA

NLPF’s focus areas encompass the creation of innovative solutions around; community peacebuilding, education, and economic empowerment programs for women and youth, health promotion, and environmental conservation.

THEMATIC FOCUS

The Foundation seeks to establish partnerships with institutions, investors, philanthropic individuals, and other development stakeholders to execute projects and to promote ideas for self-sustainability.

Samburu food donation

Samburu West University Students Spend a Day with their MP

Hon Naisula Lesuuda visits Suguta Girls Rescue Centre

Towards Universal Healthcare for Samburu West