Give
Your gift builds what the community has already begun.
Donations to SMG help erase educational, economic, and health disparities so that youth in Kiteta and beyond have a foundation for prosperity. Every project your gift touches was chosen and vetted by the community it serves.
Stephen Mbuvi Global is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 99-4166825. Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Mail a check
You can also send a check
Mail in checks are an excellent fee free option. Make it payable to "Stephen Mbuvi Global” and mail it to the address below. Checks reach the same general fund as gifts made online, and the community decides where they do the most good.
Mailing address
Stephen Mbuvi Global
2406 S Prospect Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
USA
Write your email address in the memo line and your receipt comes back the same day we open it. Without one, we post the receipt to the return address on your envelope.
Giving tiers
Your giving makes a difference
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$25
Provides essential menstrual hygiene kits and wellness support for one girl
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$100
Funds vital school building maintenance, facility repairs, and classroom upkeep for a full year
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$150
Equips one student with tailored school uniforms, textbooks, and essential learning supplies for a full year
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$600
Sponsors a full annual student scholarship through the Stephen Mbuvi Scholarship Fund (SMSF)
Stephen Mbuvi Global is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 99-4166825.
Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Support in everyday life
“Our children used to walk barefoot, so the shoes helped us a great deal. Then the sweaters came, because they used to feel the cold. They have supported us with food, and there was a time they helped the parents with school fees.”
Mary Nthenya Mutunga
School cook
Kiteta Primary School
A place to learn
“Before they came to renovate our classes, we were working under harsh conditions. There was dust in the classrooms, and the learners were getting colds and coughs because of it. Since the renovation, all has been well. We are in an environment that is conducive for learning.”
Kennedy Kioko
Teacher · Mathematics and Integrated Science
Kiteta Primary School
The difference, in their words
People at Kiteta share what support has meant in everyday life.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Stephen Mbuvi Global is recognized as a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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A receipt is emailed to you as soon as your gift goes through. It carries the date, the amount and our EIN, which is everything an accountant needs. If it does not arrive, check your spam folder, then email info@stephenmbuviglobal.org and we will send it again.
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Yes, and it is the most useful gift we receive. A school year runs on a schedule. Knowing what is coming lets us commit to a repair or a term of fees before the term starts rather than after it.
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Every receipt email has a link at the bottom to manage your gift. It opens a page where you can change the amount, move the date, update your card, pause the gift or stop it altogether. You do not need an account or a password, and any receipt from the plan works, not only the most recent one. If you would rather we handled it, email info@stephenmbuviglobal.org.
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Yes. Make it payable to “Stephen Mbuvi Global” and mail it to 2406 S Prospect Ave, Champaign, IL 61820. Write your email address in the memo line if you would like the receipt emailed, otherwise it goes back to the return address on the envelope. Checks reach the same general fund as gifts made online.
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We collect gifts through Givebutter, which charges us no platform fee. It funds itself by offering donors an optional tip at checkout. The tip is separate from your donation and entirely optional. Either way, the full amount you intended for Stephen Mbuvi Global reaches Stephen Mbuvi Global.
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Yes, within 30 days. Gifts made in error, duplicated by mistake or entered in the wrong amount are refunded to the original payment method. Email info@stephenmbuviglobal.org.
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Into one general fund that pays for work at Kiteta Primary School, the Stephen Mbuvi Scholarship Fund, Ndithini Vocational School, and leadership support for teachers and community leaders. We hold it as one fund on purpose, so money can move to the most pressing need rather than to whichever project attracts the most attention.
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No, and that is deliberate. Every gift joins the general fund. Restricted giving is how a school ends up with three new classrooms and no money for the roof. One fund lets the community’s own order of priorities set the order of the work.
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The community does. Nothing moves forward unless the people in Kiteta have asked for it, planned it and put their own labour and resources into it. SMG funds what comes out of that process. It is why the work looks the way it does: a library first, then classrooms, then electricity, then a vocational school.
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They are honest averages, not invoices. Costs move with the price of materials and the size of a class, so $150 covers roughly a year of uniforms, textbooks and supplies for one student rather than exactly that. Your gift joins the general fund and is spent where the community’s plan needs it.
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In 2001, neighbours of the Mbuvi family built a library at Kiteta Primary School in his memory. A two-classroom conversion. Everything SMG does now grew out of that room. The full story is on The Stephen Mbuvi Legacy page.
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The paperwork is new. The work is twenty-five years old. The library opened in 2001, and the years since brought renovated classrooms, electricity, rainwater tanks, books, uniforms, menstrual health supplies, teacher support and a vocational school. Registering as a 501(c)(3) in December 2024 formalised what the community had already been doing for two decades.
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Email info@stephenmbuviglobal.org and a person will answer you.
