Safaricom Launches KES 30B Education Initiative and Appoints Group Chief External Affairs Officer - October 2025

Safaricom, through its M-PESA Foundation, has launched a new education initiative called "Citizens of the Future" which aims to revolutionize Kenya's education and training sector over the next five years. As part of this program, the M-PESA Foundation is launching a Kshs 30 billion initiative to digitally transform over 600 Kenyan schools. The goal of this investment is to create "Schools of the Future" over the next five years. In a separate corporate development, Safaricom announced the return of Steve Chege as its Group Chief External Affairs Officer. In this group-level role, he will support both Safaricom Kenya and Safaricom Ethiopia.