Addressing root trauma as the essential prerequisite for foundational education, gender empowerment, and long-term economic mobility across Kenya and East Africa.
Unaddressed child trauma blocks learners from processing foundational literacy and achieving life goals. $100 can rescue a traumatized child in Africa by funding an entire year of specialized Trauma Healing Circles, educational re-entry kits, and psychological counseling.
Donate any amount today to support our trauma-informed education centers across East Africa.
Rescue a Child NowChildren in East Africa have undergone trauma impacting learning.
Youth aged 15-17 in Sub-Saharan Africa remain out of school.
Annual target for trauma-informed recovery interventions.
Foundational literacy programs designed to restore hope to African children.
Providing self-sufficiency tools and trauma recovery support for local women leaders.
Sikika Foundation Africa (SAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the premise that every child deserves a champion to thrive. Children, women, and refugees deserve to be heard—not just seen. Unaddressed trauma is a foundational barrier to academic success and economic mobility.
A world where every child, woman, and refugee is heard, healed from trauma, and empowered with education and economic tools to thrive.
Restoring hope and dignity to underserved children, women, and refugees in Kenya through trauma recovery, foundational learning, and business skills.
Sikika Foundation Africa offers senior-level technical advisory services to strengthen civil society organizations, faith institutions, churches, and humanitarian networks across sub-Saharan Africa.
Designing robust M&E frameworks, data management systems, real-time indicator tracking, and reporting templates aligned with international donor specifications and UN SDGs.
Executing multi-country quantitative and qualitative research, baseline surveys, community needs assessments, and empirical field studies across urban and rural settlements.
Independent mid-term and final project evaluations assessing OECD-DAC criteria (Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, Sustainability) for donor-funded initiatives.
Grant proposal writing, institutional donor mapping, pipeline strategy design, and executing high-yield fundraising drives (including multi-million dollar sit-down campaigns).
Facilitating 3-to-5 year institutional strategic plans, organizational restructuring, vision alignment retreats, and governance advisory for boards and church councils.
Co-creating human-centered social programs, Theory of Change (ToC) modeling, curriculum alignment, and reviewing ongoing community empowerment frameworks.
Engage Dr. Paul Moturi and our senior advisory team for your M&E, evaluation, or strategic planning assignment.
Founder / Dreamer-in-Chief
PhD (Cand.) Project Mgmt (OUK), MSc (UCT), MBA, BSc (JKUAT)
Chartered Arbitrator (ACIArb), Dip. Law, Dip. Education Psychology
Experience across SADC, East, West Africa, Europe & Asia
Dr. Paul Opy Moturi is an accomplished, award-winning multi-country management and strategy expert serving as the Dreamer-in-Chief of Sikika Foundation Africa[cite: 1, 3, 6]. He led the largest single sit-down fundraiser in Kenya, raising USD 3.84 Million[cite: 1], and has overseen major programs funded by MFA Norway, MFA Finland, Netherlands Bible Society, and BFBS UK[cite: 1].
He recently served as Strategy & Organizational Development Advisor at WUSC (Sri Lanka)[cite: 1, 2, 3], Executive Director at PACEmaker International (expanding education projects across Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi)[cite: 1, 2, 3], and COO at the Bible Society of Kenya, managing 16 major programs and 48+ staff[cite: 1, 3].
Born in an underserved locality deep in rural Rift Valley and a double victim of tribal clashes, Dr. Moturi realized early that education is an equalizer[cite: 6]. With multiple advanced degrees and continuous learning, he remains deeply rooted in local communities, having led education, trauma healing, and M&E initiatives across Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini[cite: 1, 2, 3, 6].
Psychological support to process unaddressed trauma—a key barrier impacting 47.8% of East Africa's children.
Reintegrating out-of-school children and youth back into formal or informal learning hubs.
Teaching at the Right Level: evaluating learners by skill rather than age to build foundational literacy.
Partnering with local churches & mosques for spiritual support, character building, and moral anchoring.
Practical entrepreneurial training helping youth, women, and refugees transition into financial self-sufficiency.
Explore interactive samples of our field diagnostic instruments used to assess foundational learning and trauma screening in community sites.
Stage 1: Paragraph Test
Can the learner read the paragraph comfortably with 3 or fewer errors?
Score 2 key items to calculate sample clinical distress indicator (0 = Not at all, 4 = Almost always)
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All financial contributions are audited annually. 100% of campaign donations go directly into funding trauma recovery toolkits and education centers for children in Kenya and East Africa.
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