Healthcare and Nutrition
Healthcare and Nutrition

Promoting accessible healthcare and nutrition security through community-based eldercare models and preventive health interventions.

Healthcare and Nutrition
Livelihood Support
Livelihood Support

Promoting financial independence and livelihood security through skills training, entrepreneurship development, and social protection advocacy.

Livelihood Support
Humanitarian Response
Humanitarian Response

Promoting resilience and humanitarian assistance through crisis intervention, shelter provision, and emergency relief services for vulnerable older persons.

Humanitarian Response
Advocacy and Policy Influencing
Advocacy and Policy Influencing

Promoting dignity and social inclusion through policy reform, community education, and systematic advocacy for older persons’ rights.

Advocacy and Policy Influencing
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Restoring Dignity

The Ethel Foundation for the Aged (EFA) is a Charitable Non-Governmental Organization established in 2018 by the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church congregation in Kenya to address the plight of vulnerable older persons.

Since inception, the organization has been at the forefront of providing humanitarian assistance and caregiver support for older persons who lack safety nets and struggle to meet their self-care needs, advocating for policies and programs that protect older persons from marginalization, neglect, and abuse while ensuring they have access to essential services, economic opportunities, and social support networks.

Call to Action

Our Strategic Goal

To create a society where every older person leads a dignified life free of want, abuse, neglect, and discrimination, ensuring older persons live with dignity, security, and inclusion in society.

Our Approach

We aim to holistically respond to the spiritual, physical, social, psychological, and economic needs of older persons in society through four thematic areas that address the root causes of their marginalization.

Our approach is based on the belief that by improving older persons’ well-being through advocacy, healthcare access, economic empowerment, and community engagement, while fostering partnerships, training caregivers, and promoting policy reforms, older persons will live with dignity, security, and inclusion in society.

Local Steps to Global Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals commitment to “leave no one behind” strongly aligns with EFA’s mission. We recognize that sustainable development cannot be achieved if older persons are among those furthest behind in achieving these goals.

EFA champions a rights-based approach rooted in Catholic Church’s Social Teaching on liberation theology, working to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by 2030, with a focus on the preferential option for the aged and poor, emphasizing human dignity and the sanctity of life.


In this regard, we focus our interventions to address Violence, Abuse, and Neglect (VAN) and the various socio-economic challenges facing older persons. We have adopted a community-based, inclusive approach that reaches out to older members of society regardless of their race, belief systems, religion, ethnicity, circumstances or political affiliation.

Impact by the Numbers

So far, our impact has transformed the lives of thousands of older persons across Nakuru, Kisumu, Nairobi, Kisii, and Tharaka Nithi counties, improving their access to essential services and economic opportunities.

Older Persons Served
Healthcare and Medical Camp Beneficiaries
Livelihood and Skills Training Recipients
Emergency Relief Beneficiaries

2027 Targets

Older Persons Reached
Healthcare and Nutrition Support Recipients
Economic Empowerment Beneficiaries
Emergency Response Beneficiaries
Reduction in Violence, Abuse, and Neglect Cases