What we do
We don't just support one boarding school: our goal is universal access to quality education, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a particular focus on girls' access to education. We do this by supporting education projects in Kenya and Italy.
Our principle
We don't propose projects from Italy: we listen to the people who live the problem, and offer time, skills and funding for the solutions that actually work.
They gave us our name
When founder Mattia left Maralal in 2018, the students of Irene School saw him off clapping their hands like an approaching storm. They told him: "For us, you were like rain and storm — a blessing." From there came the name STORM — STudy to transfORM — and the commitment to keep being that promise, alongside the people who live that reality every day.
Discover our storyWe listen, before we act
In Samburu, Pokot and Turkana communities, many girls don't go to school: kept home for cattle-herding, married off at 13 or 14, or at risk of genital mutilation. Irene School takes them in and protects them — and Storm supports a model designed by the people who live that reality every day, not imposed from outside.
Our projects
This is what we are doing and what we could do thanks to you
Maralal, Kenya 12/2024
Irene School Maralal A boarding school for girls that has taken in poor students and students fleeing early marriage and genital mutilation since 2018. Over 40 graduates, 10+ students at university.
Kakuma/Marala, Kenya ongoing
Kakuma Refugee Camp In the Kakuma refugee camp (200,000 people), only 6% of eligible students reach secondary school. We sponsor the transfer of some students to Irene School in Maralal: far from the camp, closer to a future.
Samburu County, Kenya ongoing
ILEPU School Our school for the years ahead: 10 hectares of land bought in 2024, in partnership with Nielimishe Foundation — a Kenyan organization that will run it directly. A self-sustaining, replicable model.
Maralal, Kenya ongoing
Basketball training A complete education includes sport too: basketball helps students build discipline, teamwork, confidence and wellbeing, both in and beyond the classroom.
Our impact
These are not just numbers: they are the lives we have changed and the dreams we have helped to achieve, together.
people reached
students supported
students admitted to university
volunteers from all over the world
Educating a girl means educating a community.
Peter Musau
Founder of Nielimishe