Mission Statement
Our Mission is the “Advancement of education of the children of Maisha Trust school in Kenya by assisting in its maintenance, proper staffing and administration, thereby empowering children and young adults living in extreme poverty in Kenya to realize and fulfill their potential in life through teaching, training and nurturing”.

Objectives
- To build a Centre from which any activity in accord with achieving Maisha Trust’s goals can operate.
- To establish and maintain the running of a pre-primary school for the poor.
- To remove any financial barriers that discriminate against children from going to school, from pre-primary up to secondary level.
- To provide nutritionally adequate food (in quantity and quality) to all registered beneficiaries, staff and local volunteers of the Centre.
- To offer services or programmes for emotional support, counsel and guidance.
- To teach the Word of God and nurture believers in their spiritual growth.
- To collaborate with any like-minded organizations, in order to fulfill the preceding objectives.
- To engage in any other activities that the trustees deem necessary in order to fulfill the aforementioned mission.
Meet the team

Kenyan Trustee
Founder
Sarah Vohya is the founder of Maisha Trust, which she established out of her compassion for the poor and passion for empowering others. Sarah was born and raised in Surrey in the UK but now lives in Nairobi with her husband, Tom and their baby, Zephan. She works as a Music teacher at a British Preparatory school in Nairobi. She first set foot in Kenya in 2006 during her Gap-year between secondary school and university, not knowing that it would later be her permanent home. Sarah’s love for helping people culminated in her starting an informal kindergarten school in Kibera slum, which has since evolved to become Oasis Kindergarten.

Kenyan Trustee
Kenyan Chairman
Tom Vohya is a Trustee and Chairman of Maisha Trust Kenya. He was born in Nairobi and is trained in ICT therefore very keen on technology. Having shared the vision of empowering the poor in Kenya, he supported Sarah in managing the kindergarten school long before they got married. Tom is now the Senior Director of Oasis Kindergarten and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the School, including leadership of the staff team and managing the schools’ finances. He is self-employed with a vision of establishing a social entrepreneurial enterprise in agribusiness. He is a talented musician and photographer.

UK Trustee
UK Chairman
Susannah is the ordinary mother of an extraordinary daughter, who called home from Nairobi one day and said, 'I've been asked if I will help set up a school for children who wouldn't be able to afford it, in Kibera slum, and finance it from the UK. Will you help me?' Being a supportive sort of mother, who likes to encourage her children in all their exploits, she blithely said, 'yes', and that is how it all started. Susannah teaches the harp and runs a harp ensemble of about fifteen harps with some of her pupils, which plays at charity events. She is a Lay Reader in her local church.

UK Trustee
Partner in Bennetts
is a partner in Bennetts, a firm of solicitors in Wrington, near Bristol. He has been a practicing solicitor for 30 years and now specializes in property and commercial work, as well as charity law. He is married to Olivia and is strongly committed to his parish church in Wrington, where he is a Lay Reader. Francis worked in Kenya as a lawyer for four years with Hamilton Harrison and Mathews, one of the largest law firms in Nairobi. During that time, he frequently visited Starehe, one of the best-known secondary schools in Nairobi, which was founded specifically to give an education to those who could not afford the fees.

UK Trustee
Church Army Captain
Keith Dyde is a retired Church Army Captain. He worked as an evangelist in many areas of the UK and Ireland with a huge range of social backgrounds and with a particular ministry to children and young people. He is an active member of his local church. He and Susannah visit Oasis Kindergarten every year where they help with the teaching and get to know the teachers. He is particularly interested in developing fundraising opportunities.

UK Trustee
Director of City & Provincial
Christopher Lovegrove is married to Avril and has three children. He is director of City & Provincial Properties plc, a property company specializing in adding value through planning, development and investment. He heads up the Music Worship Ministry at his local church. Chris is no stranger to charity work; he is currently Chair of Trustees of Lionsraw, a charity involved in mobilizing football fans to create opportunities for change in deprived areas around the world. Chris is passionate about education for children and its power to enable change and create opportunity. His support for the Charity focuses on helping to raise funds for our work in Kenya.

UK Trustee
Chartered Accountant
Wendy Fry is a Chartered Accountant and currently a short-term mission partner with CMS. She has had a varied career over the years including Price Waterhouse, Tearfund and 2 years in South Sudan with ACROSS. She is widowed with 3 sons in their 20s and is a regular member of her local church. She is passionate about justice in the world, Micah 6:8.

Kenyan Trustee
Founder
Sarah Vohya is the founder of Maisha Trust, which she established out of her compassion for the poor and passion for empowering others. Sarah was born and raised in Surrey in the UK but now lives in Nairobi with her husband, Tom and their baby, Zephan. She works as a Music teacher at a British Preparatory school in Nairobi. She first set foot in Kenya in 2006 during her Gap-year between secondary school and university, not knowing that it would later be her permanent home. Sarah’s love for helping people culminated in her starting an informal kindergarten school in Kibera slum, which has since evolved to become Oasis Kindergarten.

Kenyan Trustee
Kenyan Chairman
Tom Vohya is a Trustee and Chairman of Maisha Trust Kenya. He was born in Nairobi and is trained in ICT therefore very keen on technology. Having shared the vision of empowering the poor in Kenya, he supported Sarah in managing the kindergarten school long before they got married. Tom is now the Senior Director of Oasis Kindergarten and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the School, including leadership of the staff team and managing the schools’ finances. He is self-employed with a vision of establishing a social entrepreneurial enterprise in agribusiness. He is a talented musician and photographer.

UK Trustee
UK Chairman
Susannah is the ordinary mother of an extraordinary daughter, who called home from Nairobi one day and said, 'I've been asked if I will help set up a school for children who wouldn't be able to afford it, in Kibera slum, and finance it from the UK. Will you help me?' Being a supportive sort of mother, who likes to encourage her children in all their exploits, she blithely said, 'yes', and that is how it all started. Susannah teaches the harp and runs a harp ensemble of about fifteen harps with some of her pupils, which plays at charity events. She is a Lay Reader in her local church.

UK Trustee
Partner in Bennetts
is a partner in Bennetts, a firm of solicitors in Wrington, near Bristol. He has been a practicing solicitor for 30 years and now specializes in property and commercial work, as well as charity law. He is married to Olivia and is strongly committed to his parish church in Wrington, where he is a Lay Reader. Francis worked in Kenya as a lawyer for four years with Hamilton Harrison and Mathews, one of the largest law firms in Nairobi. During that time, he frequently visited Starehe, one of the best-known secondary schools in Nairobi, which was founded specifically to give an education to those who could not afford the fees.

UK Trustee
Church Army Captain
Keith Dyde is a retired Church Army Captain. He worked as an evangelist in many areas of the UK and Ireland with a huge range of social backgrounds and with a particular ministry to children and young people. He is an active member of his local church. He and Susannah visit Oasis Kindergarten every year where they help with the teaching and get to know the teachers. He is particularly interested in developing fundraising opportunities.

UK Trustee
Director of City & Provincial
Christopher Lovegrove is married to Avril and has three children. He is director of City & Provincial Properties plc, a property company specializing in adding value through planning, development and investment. He heads up the Music Worship Ministry at his local church. Chris is no stranger to charity work; he is currently Chair of Trustees of Lionsraw, a charity involved in mobilizing football fans to create opportunities for change in deprived areas around the world. Chris is passionate about education for children and its power to enable change and create opportunity. His support for the Charity focuses on helping to raise funds for our work in Kenya.

UK Trustee
Chartered Accountant
Wendy Fry is a Chartered Accountant and currently a short-term mission partner with CMS. She has had a varied career over the years including Price Waterhouse, Tearfund and 2 years in South Sudan with ACROSS. She is widowed with 3 sons in their 20s and is a regular member of her local church. She is passionate about justice in the world, Micah 6:8.

Kenyan Trustee
Founder
Sarah Vohya is the founder of Maisha Trust, which she established out of her compassion for the poor and passion for empowering others. Sarah was born and raised in Surrey in the UK but now lives in Nairobi with her husband, Tom and their baby, Zephan. She works as a Music teacher at a British Preparatory school in Nairobi. She first set foot in Kenya in 2006 during her Gap-year between secondary school and university, not knowing that it would later be her permanent home. Sarah’s love for helping people culminated in her starting an informal kindergarten school in Kibera slum, which has since evolved to become Oasis Kindergarten.

Kenyan Trustee
Kenyan Chairman
Tom Vohya is a Trustee and Chairman of Maisha Trust Kenya. He was born in Nairobi and is trained in ICT therefore very keen on technology. Having shared the vision of empowering the poor in Kenya, he supported Sarah in managing the kindergarten school long before they got married. Tom is now the Senior Director of Oasis Kindergarten and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the School, including leadership of the staff team and managing the schools’ finances. He is self-employed with a vision of establishing a social entrepreneurial enterprise in agribusiness. He is a talented musician and photographer.

UK Trustee
UK Chairman
Susannah is the ordinary mother of an extraordinary daughter, who called home from Nairobi one day and said, 'I've been asked if I will help set up a school for children who wouldn't be able to afford it, in Kibera slum, and finance it from the UK. Will you help me?' Being a supportive sort of mother, who likes to encourage her children in all their exploits, she blithely said, 'yes', and that is how it all started. Susannah teaches the harp and runs a harp ensemble of about fifteen harps with some of her pupils, which plays at charity events. She is a Lay Reader in her local church.

UK Trustee
Partner in Bennetts
is a partner in Bennetts, a firm of solicitors in Wrington, near Bristol. He has been a practicing solicitor for 30 years and now specializes in property and commercial work, as well as charity law. He is married to Olivia and is strongly committed to his parish church in Wrington, where he is a Lay Reader. Francis worked in Kenya as a lawyer for four years with Hamilton Harrison and Mathews, one of the largest law firms in Nairobi. During that time, he frequently visited Starehe, one of the best-known secondary schools in Nairobi, which was founded specifically to give an education to those who could not afford the fees.

UK Trustee
Church Army Captain
Keith Dyde is a retired Church Army Captain. He worked as an evangelist in many areas of the UK and Ireland with a huge range of social backgrounds and with a particular ministry to children and young people. He is an active member of his local church. He and Susannah visit Oasis Kindergarten every year where they help with the teaching and get to know the teachers. He is particularly interested in developing fundraising opportunities.

UK Trustee
Director of City & Provincial
Christopher Lovegrove is married to Avril and has three children. He is director of City & Provincial Properties plc, a property company specializing in adding value through planning, development and investment. He heads up the Music Worship Ministry at his local church. Chris is no stranger to charity work; he is currently Chair of Trustees of Lionsraw, a charity involved in mobilizing football fans to create opportunities for change in deprived areas around the world. Chris is passionate about education for children and its power to enable change and create opportunity. His support for the Charity focuses on helping to raise funds for our work in Kenya.

UK Trustee
Chartered Accountant
Wendy Fry is a Chartered Accountant and currently a short-term mission partner with CMS. She has had a varied career over the years including Price Waterhouse, Tearfund and 2 years in South Sudan with ACROSS. She is widowed with 3 sons in their 20s and is a regular member of her local church. She is passionate about justice in the world, Micah 6:8.