Kimlea is a girl's technical training centre, which was started with the aim of helping women and girls working in the coffee and tea plantations of Limuru area of Kenya to raise their standards of living.

 Most of the women working in the plantations have very little education and no alternative source of income. Consequently, they find themselves in a vicious poverty cycle which is difficult to break. They pick tea as a source of livelihood, a seasonal job which earns them around Kshs. 4 per kilo. Each woman is able to pick an average of 30 kilos a day. The money is barely able to meet basic family needs. As a result, their children join them at an early age to help bring food to the table, thus discontinuing their education. Unlike other more privileged families there is scarcely any opportunity for further education among the tea pickers, for want of school fees.

In order to help solve this problem,  Kianda Foundation started Kimlea. Its main aim is to provide technical skills for women and girls so that they have an alternative source of income and can raise the standard of living of their families and consequently that of the society around them.