REGIONS OF OPERATION
GREATER NAIROBI
Design, partnerships, and national scaling
Greater Nairobi has been Mwangaza Light’s headquarters since 2014 and serves as our national design, coordination, and partnership hub. From here, we collaborate with clean energy suppliers, financiers, donors, and national institutions, including government stakeholders. Working closely with church partners across Nairobi, Kiambu, and Kajiado counties, the region is a key testing ground for household transitions to electric cooking. Greater Nairobi has also been central to the engagement with Green Anglicans Movement and the launch of the Green Anglicans Cookstoves, as well as ecotheology partnerships with St Paul’s University anchoring innovation, learning, and national scale.
MURANG’A
Household and institutional cooking transitions
Murang’a is a region where Mwangaza Light has established a strong household-level presence, supporting a gradual transition from open fire cooking to improved cookstoves, and now to electric cooking. Between 2019 and 2024, the Rocket Cookstove programme reached 30,000 households in Murang’a (and 20,000 in Nakuru), embedding cleaner cooking practices at scale. Building on this experience, Mwangaza is working with Anglican and Catholic partners to assess the energy needs and readiness of church institutions, laying the foundation for Mwangaza Kitchens and the transition of institutions to modern cooking systems.
ELGEYO MARAKWET
Piloting Green Churches Kenya model from grassroots to county level
Elgeyo Marakwet is where Green Churches Kenya was comprehensively piloted, integrating the full set of movement components at grassroots and county level in a semi-arid context. Since 2021, the county has served as a learning ground for ecumenical committee formation, eco-theology training of clergy,interchurch tree nurseries and tree growing, and last-mile clean energy distribution led by women leaders and Change Agents. Behaviour-change tools such as Conversation Starters and Community Diagnosis & Action Sessions were also piloted. The result is a Green Churches infrastructure at county and grassroots level, anchored by an annual Green Churches Conference.
TURKANA
Faith-led energy adoption in a humanitarian setting
In Turkana, Mwangaza Light is replicating Green Churches Kenya and piloting Green Mosques in a humanitarian and interfaith context. Established late 2024 through a consortium with DanChurchAid, Danish Refugee Council, and Tupado, the work responds to the unique energy realities of a refugee setting. With diverse cooking cultures from across East and the Horn of Africa, Mwangaza leads the energy access component, supporting
transitions from firewood to cleaner and electric cooking solutions.We are particularly excited to contribute to a shift toward market-driven approaches that enable both refugee and host communities to live with greater dignity and resilience.
COAST
Delivering last-mile solar and clean cooking through faith networks
Along Kenya’s Coast, Mwangaza Light drives last-mile access to solar energy and clean cooking in off-grid and low-income communities. Active since 2018, the region has been a strong base for solar solutions, including public address systems for off-grid churches, while progressively introducing clean cooking technologies. We work closely with the Green Anglicans Movement in Malindi, Mombasa, and Kwale, partnering with dioceses to deliver eco-theology training for Anglican clergy and to train Change Agents who enable community-level distribution and adoption in firewood-dependent coastal communities.