Forty years of building real things across two continents — now focused on the most important project of all.
Orphanaid Kenya was founded by Mansurali Jiwani in 2021 after years of witnessing the growing child protection crisis in Kenya — and concluding that observation without action is its own form of failure.
Kenya has over 2.4 million orphaned children. Girls among them face not just poverty, but targeted, organised exploitation — trafficking networks, organ-harvesting syndicates, and international criminal organisations that systematically prey on children without family protection.
Orphanaid Kenya is not a response to a fundraising opportunity. It is a response to a documented, urgent, preventable human crisis — designed by a founder who has spent forty years building real things and who intends this to be the most enduring structure he ever creates.
To work together for orphaned children — giving them hope for a brighter future and a meaningful, dignified adulthood. A Kenya where no girl's potential is extinguished by the absence of protection.
To provide social and material assistance to orphaned children; to protect them from exploitation, abuse, and discrimination; and to improve their quality of life through structured residential care, quality education, and community development.
Born in Kenya, educated in the United Kingdom and Canada, Mansurali Jiwani has spent over forty years building businesses, technology companies, property developments, and construction projects across East Africa and British Columbia. He brings to Orphanaid Kenya the same operational discipline, financial governance, and personal commitment to completion that has defined every project he has undertaken.
"I have built hotels, technology businesses, and 27 construction projects. I know exactly what it takes to take an idea from concept to foundation to finished building. Orphanaid Kenya is my most important project — not the most profitable, but the most important."