Restoration Initiative — 2024 in review
Across fourteen African countries, 2024 was a year of consolidation and quiet acceleration. We served 6.4 million meals, sponsored 12,800 children into school, and graduated our largest-ever cohort of community leaders. This is the long version.
Restoration is slow work. It does not photograph well in a single frame. It looks like a girl who, four years after we first met her, walks past our field office on her way to her secondary-school exams — and waves.
What we did in 2024
We opened three new community hubs (Lilongwe, Tamale and Bukavu), bringing our total to 41. We trained 1,820 primary-school teachers through our coaching residency. We disbursed 4.2 million USD in micro-loans through 312 village savings cooperatives, with a 96.4% repayment rate at year end.
What we got wrong
Our Mozambique expansion ran six months behind schedule because we underestimated the difficulty of importing classroom furniture through Beira. Our digital-literacy pilot in Nairobi reached only 38% of its planned cohort — we rebuilt the curriculum and are re-launching in Q2 2026.
"Transparency about failure is the price of the trust we ask donors to extend. We will keep paying it."
— Joseph Mwangi, Executive Director
The numbers
Total revenue: 24.6M USD. Programme expenditure: 78.2%. Administrative overhead: 8.1%. Fundraising: 13.7%. Independent audit by KPMG East Africa is published in full as Appendix A.
Joseph Mwangi
Executive Director, Nairobi
