About Us
Healing Beyond the Habit
At Nyumba Yetu, recovery is not just stopping a substance.
It is restoring meaning, rebuilding identity, and returning people to family and belonging.
We walk with individuals and families as they move from survival to significance — healing body, mind, and spirit together.
What part of your life feels like it’s been running without meaning?
Our Purpose, Mission & Vision
Our Purpose
To restore meaning where addiction has erased it.
Nyumba Yetu exists to address a global crisis that often goes unnamed: the loss of meaning, identity, and belonging beneath addiction and destructive coping.
We restore what substances, compulsions, and modern disconnection destroy — not only in individuals, but in families, communities, and generations.
Rooted in African wisdom and lived experience, our purpose is to offer the world a human-centred, identity-first model of recovery that can be adapted across cultures while remaining anchored in dignity, responsibility, and home.
We believe addiction is not just a medical or behavioural issue — it is a meaning crisis, and meaning must be restored for healing to last.
Our Mission
To break cycles of addiction by restoring identity, strengthening families, and rebuilding purpose — locally and globally.
Our mission is to develop, implement, and scale Existential Rehabilitation as a holistic recovery framework that heals the body, mind, and spirit together.
We do this by:
- Supporting individuals through identity-centred recovery journeys
- Strengthening families as the primary ecosystem of healing
- Equipping communities with tools for prevention, reflection, and reintegration
- Developing scalable programmes, ECQs, and training models that can be adapted across regions and cultures
While our work is grounded in Kenya, our mission reaches beyond borders — responding to a global need for recovery approaches that treat people not as problems to fix, but as humans to restore.
Our Vision
A world where healing begins with meaning, and recovery restores both people and the homes they belong to.
We envision a future where:
- Addiction is understood as a loss of identity and belonging — not a moral failure
- Recovery models honour culture, family, spirituality, and responsibility together
- Families are restored, not sidelined, in the healing process
- Communities become safe spaces of accountability, compassion, and purpose
From Kenya to the world, Nyumba Yetu envisions a global movement of homecoming — where individuals rediscover who they are, families rebuild trust, and societies move from survival to significance.
Why Our Model Is Different
Most programs focus on behaviour. We focus on meaning.
We use Existential Rehabilitation — a holistic approach that helps people rebuild the inner foundation addiction often destroys:
Identity is the return to your true self — separating who you are from what happened to you. It helps a person move from “I am broken” to “I am a whole human who has been wounded.”
Belonging is the restoration of safe connection — to family, community, and healthy relationships. It answers the loneliness that often fuels relapse by rebuilding a place where someone is known, valued, and accountable.
Purpose is the discovery of a meaningful direction that makes sobriety worth protecting. It turns recovery from mere survival into a life that carries hope, contribution, and a reason to keep going.
Responsibility is the practice of consistent choices that repair trust — with self and others — over time. It replaces excuses with ownership, and chaos with a steady path forward.
When meaning is restored, change lasts.
How Existential Rehabilitation Works
Our work combines structure and soul — stabilising life, restoring meaning, rebuilding family trust, and activating purpose.
1) Stabilisation
Restoring safety, routine, and a healthier rhythm of life.
2) Meaning Recovery
Guided reflection through ECQs, coaching conversations, and inner work that rebuilds self-understanding.
3) Family Reintegration
Repairing relationships, restoring dignity, rebuilding trust at home.
4) Purpose Activation
Turning pain into power: direction, skills, service, and a life that can carry responsibility.
The Identity Journey
Take an ECQ
Guided questions that help you face the deeper issues beneath addiction — safely, honestly, and without shame.
Alcohol ECQ
For anyone struggling with alcohol use — or living with the consequences of alcohol in the home.
Student ECQ
For students navigating pressure, identity confusion, loneliness, and escape habits.
Gambling ECQ
For those caught in hidden cycles of betting, shame, debt, or secrecy — and families affected by it.
If you feel unsafe or in crisis, please seek immediate local support. ECQs are reflective tools, not emergency care.
Our Values
Empathy with Standards
Compassion without enabling.
Integrity
Truth, accountability, and clean leadership.
Community
Healing happens in relationship, not isolation.
Hope with Structure
Belief supported by pathways and follow-through.
From Francis Muya, Founder
I’ve seen what happens when meaning disappears — families suffer, potential dies, and people begin to live without a “why.” Nyumba Yetu exists to restore what addiction tries to erase: identity, belonging, and purpose.
We don’t rescue people. We rebuild pathways. We don’t label people. We restore dignity. Because every home deserves hope — and healing must reach the family, not only the individual.
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