Clean Start Africa
Clean Start Solutions is a social enterprise that works with women impacted by the criminal justice system, and their children, to restore their dignity and hope for successful reintegration. They are giving a second chance to current and formerly incarcerated women to heal from their trauma and have a chance at having a decent livelihood…
Why we love them
Clean Start Solutions is changing the mindset of Kenya’s society about incarceration and shedding light on how poverty is intertwined with the justice system in Kenya.
In the News
- Clean Start Africa was featured in the Skoll documentary Funding Africa.
- Clean Start Africa founder Teresa Njoroge was named one of the Top 100 Kenyans of 2023.
- Clean Start Africa founder Teresa Njoroge was selected for the 2023 Meaningful Business 100.
- Clean Start Africa won the 2023 Elevate Prize.
- Clean Start Africa founder Teresa Njoroge was selected as an Acumen East Africa Fellow.
- Clean Start Africa founder Teresa Njoroge was named a Female Founders Initiative (Middle East and Africa) 50 Under 50 awardee.
- Clean Start Africa founder Teresa Njoroge won the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge Award for Sub-Saharan Africa.
