About Us

ZILALA Residents Initiative is a Community Based Organization registered under the Department of Social Development. The C.B.O was formed by residents of Ziwani, Lake Amu and Lakeside areas of Mpeketoni Sub-County all of whom border Lake Kenyatta. The residents of Ziwani, Lake Amu and Lakeside are directly affected by whatever happens to Lake Kenyatta and its environs.

We the residents of the three mentioned areas came together to form this C.B.O with a view to finding lasting solutions to our common problems and challenges affecting us in our day-to-day lives, as we strive to eke a living from our farms.

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Vision

To enable the residents of Ziwani, Lake Amu and Lakeside make sufficient earnings from their economic activities in their farms, earn a decent living, eliminate any form of financial embarrassment by sustainably meeting their financial obligations and have respectable and honorable lives.

Mission

To eradicate endemic poverty in Ziwani, Lake Amu and Lakeside areas, occasioned by wild animals, by providing an enabling environment for the residents to initiate economically viable and sustainable income generating activities while conserving the environment of Lake Kenyatta and its environs for the benefit of all humanity, and posterity.