Let's join hands to build our Akhirah

Give a Helping Hand to rural communities in Kenya

40,000+ people reached with food, clothes, shoes, medicine and mobility aids along Kenya's coast. Helping Hands is a small team on the ground. Every project is visited, photographed and reported back to the people who funded it.

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Helping Hands volunteers handing out flour and food parcels to families in a rural village
A mother holding her two young children at her doorway, with a food parcel of flour, oil and essentials from Helping Hands A Helping Hands volunteer visiting a family in a home made of mud walls and scrap metal
Our story

Started by Kenyans, trusted by donors

Helping Hands was started by a team of Kenyans who wanted to give back to their own people. They saw families along the coast living without clean water, safe shelter or enough to eat, and decided to act, one well, one home and one meal at a time.

Today Helping Hands works across villages on Kenya's coast. The team on the ground oversee every project in person, so donors can see exactly where their help goes.

Projects you can support

Choose where your donation goes.

Every project has a clear cost. When it's complete, you receive photos and video of what you helped build.

A newly dug well shaft in red earth, with timber ready for the well head

Well Building

Clean water close to home, so families stop walking hours each day and children stay in school. A lasting Sadaqah Jariyah.

One well from £1,800
Pledge to a well
An elderly man standing with a Helping Hands volunteer outside his newly built home

Home Building

A safe, dry home for a family in need. Built by local workers, handed over with the family there to receive the keys.

One home from £1,000
Pledge to a home
Masjid Umar Al-Farooq, a completed mosque with green arches and two minarets, built by Helping Hands

Mosque Building

A place of prayer and learning at the heart of the village. Give towards the whole build or sponsor a part of it.

One mosque from £2,500
Pledge to a mosque
A Helping Hands volunteer carrying a food sack on his shoulder, walking with children and families from the village

Qurbani

Eid al-Adha

We carry out your Qurbani locally and share the meat with families who rarely eat it. You receive a video on the day.

Qurbani from £180
Reserve a Qurbani
Zakat

Give your Zakat with confidence.

Zakat is kept separate from general donations and passed only to people who are eligible to receive it.

  • Recorded separately from Sadaqah
  • Given to eligible families we know personally
  • Confirmation sent once it is distributed

Zakat calculator

Your Zakat (2.5%) £0.00

These calculations are approximate. Other income and assets may also be due for Zakat. Zakat is due when your wealth has stayed above the nisab (£[NISAB] today) for a lunar year. If unsure, please ask a scholar.

Pledge my Zakat

From your pledge to the finished project, you see every step.

  1. 1You pledgeChoose a project and tell us how much you'd like to give.
  2. 2We confirm on WhatsAppA real person sends you the ways to give and a thank you once it arrives.
  3. 3We buildProgress photos as the work happens on the ground.
  4. 4You see the impactA video of the finished project and the families it serves.
From the field

Latest updates

Watch all on YouTube
A Helping Hands volunteer checking the tap on a water tank installed on a completed well Ongoing · Well Building

Water tank installed on a new well in [VILLAGE]

A new cement-rendered house with its roof on, nearly complete, under palm trees Ongoing · Home Building

Walls and roof complete on a new family home in [VILLAGE]

A white goat in a village yard, ready for Qurbani Ongoing · Qurbani

Qurbani goats sourced locally in [VILLAGE]

Make a pledge

Tell us what you'd like to give. We'll take it from there.

A member of the Helping Hands team will message you on WhatsApp within 24 hours with the ways to give, from the UK, Kenya or anywhere else.

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No payment is taken here. Tapping send opens WhatsApp with your pledge ready to send to the Helping Hands team. Your details are only used to contact you about your pledge.