About Us

Mwangaza Light is a women-founded and women-led social enterprise working with faith institutions to end energy poverty and accelerate climate action in Kenya. Ending energy poverty is fundamental to improving how people live and how institutions function- and addressing it at scale can transform society. Through churches, one of Kenya’s largest and most trusted national networks, our work has the potential to reach and influence millions of people and institutions nationwide.

This reach is achieved through Green Churches Kenya, designed by Mwangaza Light as a church-led environmental movement. It integrates theology, technology, and trees, translating institutional change within churches into the transition of schools and households to clean energy at national scale. By linking church, school, and home, the movement embeds environmental stewardship across institutions and everyday life.

Our Focus Areas

CHURCHES

Movement Building

Building a church-led environmental movement integrating theology, technology, and trees.

HOMES

Empowering Households

Empowering households to adopt clean energy and practice sustainable living - efficiently and affordably.

SCHOOLS

Transforming Institutions

Transforming church-based schools into clean energy and environmental stewardship hubs.

Our work advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We reduce energy costs in institutions and households, freeing resources for livelihoods.
We replace smoky cooking with clean energy, improving health and safety.
We create cleaner, more efficient school environments that support learning.
We empower women leaders while reducing the time and health burdens of cooking.
We expand access to clean, affordable energy across church, school, and home.
We cut emissions and deforestation through clean energy and environmental stewardship.

56,275

households served with clean energy

16

Number of schools with cleaner cooking solutions

500

Number of women leaders empowered

$148,173

In household savings on cooking fuel

129,422,800

Hours saved from the useof clean cookstoves

647,836

Tons of wood saved
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Leading With Purpose

DR. CATRINE SHROFF

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Leadership focus: Strategy, systems change,
and faith-led climate action.

Provides strategic leadership working with
church leaders, clean-cooking actors, donors,
and financiers to advance clean energy.
Leads the design and scale-up of Green
Churches Kenya, strengthening governance,
accountability, and delivery systems for
impact at scale.

PAULINE MWANGI

DEPUTY CEO / GM

Leadership focus: Operations, finance, and
organisational performance.

Leads operations and financial management,
ensuring strong systems, accountability, and
effective delivery. Plays a central role in
translating strategy into day-to-day
implementation and supporting the scale-up
of Green Churches Kenya.

JUDDY WANJA

PEOPLE & CULTURE MANAGER

Leadership focus: People, systems, and data-driven performance.

Strengthens internal operations, team
performance, and continuous digitalisation.
Leads efforts to build Mwangaza Light as a
data-driven organisation while supporting
project implementation under Green
Churches Kenya.