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Mars Society Kenya is Transitioning to a Hybrid Social Enterprise Model
Our public-benefit mission stays in charge. A wholly owned company will run the commercial work, moving us from grant dependency to a self-financing, investor-ready organization.

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PUBLIC-BENEFIT MISSION · COMMERCIAL ENGINE

THE HYBRID SOCIAL ENTERPRISE MODEL

One mission. Two engines.

A hybrid social enterprise pursues a public-benefit mission and earns revenue to sustain it. That is the shape Mars Society Kenya is growing into.

ENGINE 1 · PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANISATION

The mission we keep

Our registered non-profit keeps ownership and strategic control of the enterprise. This is the work everything else exists to serve.

Space advocacy and public awareness
Zindua STEM education for children
Analog habitat research through OASEAS
University clubs and a worldwide volunteer community

ENGINE 2 · (UPCOMING)

The company we are adding

A wholly owned Private Limited Company will run commercial activity in space-related education, technology, innovation, research, culture and hospitality. Its profits are channelled into the public-benefit mission, not maximized for their own sake.

Details of the venture lines will be shared as they are confirmed.

Talk to us about the venture arm

THE STRUCTURE

Two entities. One public-benefit mandate.

MSK will operate through its registered Public Benefit Organisation and a wholly owned Private Limited Company, (upcoming). The PBO keeps ownership and strategic control. The company runs the commercial work.

NGO / NON-PROFIT

Public Benefit Organisation

Owns the company
Holds strategic control and the IP
Carries the public-benefit mandate

Owns and controls →

← Profits fund the mission

PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY

(Upcoming)

Education and technology
Innovation and research
Culture and hospitality

The Goal:

To move MSK from grant dependency into a self-financing, financially sustainable and investor-ready organization, where commercial success directly drives public benefit.

Products & Services

The programmes that anchor the model

Camp Kipini

Our head office near Fourteen Falls in Thika doubles as a testbed for new technologies and hands-on habitation experience.

Visit Camp Kipini

Zindua STEM

Project-based learning in science, technology, engineering and maths, plus art, coding and drones, built to give every child a “YES I can do it” attitude.

Visit Zindua STEM