A Sanctuary for Healing, Skills, and Sustainability: Where Well-being, Equity, and Nature Thrive in Balance
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Enchilai is a community-based non-profit organisation located in Kajiado County, a rural area of Kenya and home to many Maasai communities.
We focus on mental health and well-being while empowering women and young people to strengthen their resilience, overcome challenges and build stable and hopeful futures.
Our work is community-led and culturally rooted. We believe that lasting change begins by listening to communities, building trust and creating practical pathways for people to heal, learn and thrive.
We deliver change through three interconnected pillars:
Well-being / Mental Health – counselling, trauma support, safe spaces, para-counsellor training.
Equity & Opportunity – girls’ education, women’s economic empowerment (beadwork, agribusiness, poultry, beekeeping, hay making), youth skills and digital literacy.
Planet & Sustainability – climate-smart agriculture, indigenous practices, and training women and youth in environmental leadership.
Enchilai integrates mental health, opportunity, and sustainability into a single, community-rooted framework.
Solutions designed by those closest to the problem.
Using Maasai traditions, beadwork, storytelling, and spirituality as tools for resilience.
Working across homes, schools, faith spaces, and local government.
Every program connects mental health, equity, and environment.
Inclusion, respect, and agency are non-negotiables.
Upcoming Events
ENCHILAI MENTAL HEALTH RUN 2026
RUN FOR THE MIND
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Venue: Decathlon, The Hub Mall, Karen, Nairobi
The event will bring together individuals, families, communities and partners to raise awareness about mental health and support community-based mental health initiatives.
Race Categories
21 KM Half Marathon
10 KM Run
5 KM Family Walk
Our Goal
The Run for the Mind aims to raise awareness, reduce stigma around mental health and mobilize resources to support Enchilai’s community mental health programs and the development of the Community Skills and Rehabilitation Centre in Kajiado County.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Donate • Partner • Support • Volunteer
Your support helps us expand access to mental health support, keep girls connected to education and create economic opportunities for women and young people in Kajiado.
Vision
A community where mental health is openly addressed as a key pillar of development, and everyone benefits.
Mission
To help mentally vulnerable women and young people in Kajiado overcome trauma, break fear and build stable futures.
Our Strategy
How We Work Counselling · Informing · Empowering Counselling Providing psychosocial support, emotional support and safe spaces for individuals experiencing trauma, distress and other mental health challenges. Informing Increasing awareness and understanding of mental health, well-being, available support and issues affecting women and young people. Empowering Equipping women and young people with knowledge, skills, opportunities and support to build resilience and stable futures.
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