The SAFI Project
Sustainable Agribusiness Financing Initiative
SAFI is a finance-led social venture of the Ohala Africa Foundation, conceived as a practical response to a defining challenge of our time: how to align economic activity, institutional integrity, and human dignity within ecological limits.
Grounded in Kenya’s Lake Region, SAFI operates at human scale, where livelihoods, markets, governance, and natural systems are deeply interconnected. The initiative is intentionally designed as a living systems demonstration—a real-world context in which the relationship between finance, institutions, stewardship, and enterprise can be observed, tested, and refined.
Rather than treating finance as an end in itself, SAFI uses capital as a formative force to strengthen institutions, leadership, and responsibility alongside enterprise growth. While rooted in a specific regional context, SAFI is conceived as a contribution to wider global conversations on finance, development, and institutional renewal.
To learn more about SAFI’s purpose, design, and operating model, download the full SAFI Concept Document (PDF).