MAONO Africa Centre for Transformation is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that works with youth and children in the informal settlements of Nairobi Kenya and its environments. The center started out as MAONO cultural group in 2000 and was later transformed and registered as a national non-governmental organization in 2020. The main goal of the organization is to transform the lives of talented youth in informal settlements focusing largely in Dandora, located in the Eastern parts of Nairobi

This is achieved through tapping in and developing talents, skills and abilities among the youth. This initiative transpired as a strategy for restoring hope among the disadvantaged and vulnerable youths in Nairobi’s informal settlement faced by a myriad of challenges in their stormy lives. Key among the challenges is unemployment and meaningful engagements that renders many hopeless and increases the risk to engage in anti-social behaviors including joining criminal gangs, which ignites insecurity in the community