How Bena Care Scaled with Futuremakers Support -

BENA Care Ltd doubled patient reach using Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers program, transforming home healthcare in Kenya with tech and global support.

How BENA Care Scaled Through Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers

Nairobi, June 4 — Naom Monari is the founder of BENA Care Ltd, an award-winning Kenyan social enterprise that delivers clinical and physiotherapy services to patients with life-threatening illnesses—right from the comfort of their homes.

Since adopting lessons from Futuremakers by Standard Chartered, a global initiative by the Best Foreign Bank in Kenya—which first opened its doors in Mombasa in 1911—BENA Care has seen a seismic shift in performance and expansion.

Futuremakers builds on the success of the bank’s Seeing is Believing initiative, which helped over 176 million people with avoidable blindness and raised more than US$100 million. Through Futuremakers, the bank seeks to empower:

500,000 adolescent girls
100,000 youth with employability skills
50,000 micro and small enterprises

BENA Care has also grown its e-commerce health platform where users can buy affordable, second-hand medical equipment like oxygen concentrators.

“In just two years, our patients grew from 300 to 6,000. We also launched a healthcare tech app, @benacare, that geo-maps nurses and physiotherapists across Kenya. We’re now attracting sponsors—even internationally,” says Monari, who named the company after her daughter Beita and herself.

From a Student Nurse to a Healthcare Pioneer

Monari founded BENA Care in 2017 while working at Gatundu Level Five Hospital. Her experience with non-critical patients occupying hospital beds led to the idea of home-based care.

Today, BENA Care works with over 9,000 healthcare professionals, offering preventative, therapeutic, and rehabilitative care nationwide.

Regina Mukiri, Regional Head of Community Impact at Standard Chartered Kenya, confirms that 31,075 Kenyan youth, including Monari, benefited from Futuremakers by April 2023, with KSh 189 million invested in that fiscal year.

Empowering Through Inclusive Programs

Futuremakers aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality), emphasizing equal opportunities for girls and people with disabilities.

Three pillars guide the program:

Education: Equips girls with leadership and confidence
Employability: Offers training to make youth job-ready
Entrepreneurship: Provides mentorship, funding, and banking tools to women in tech

In its first phase, Futuremakers reached 4,800 students from:

In April 2022, KSh 96.9 million was injected into Phase II, targeting 790 young jobseekers with disabilities, including 150 with visual impairment.

Standard Chartered Board Chair Kellen Kariuki stated that Africa’s youth population—70% under age 30—presents both opportunity and urgency.

Africa’s Youth vs. Job Market Gaps

According to the African Development Bank, 10–12 million young Africans enter the labor market annually, but only 3 million jobs are created. In Kenya, a third of youth eligible to work remain jobless.

Enter Maureen Awino, founder of Modesh Bakers in Kisumu and a Futuremakers alum.
“I’ve expanded to 3,000 cookie packets a week and trained 80 women,” she says.

A $75M Global Impact

From 2019–2023, Standard Chartered aimed to raise US$50 million. In response to COVID-19, it added another US$25 million, hitting its US$75 million goal a year early. In 2022 alone, the bank raised US$14.7 million.

Joyce Kibe, SCB’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Kenya & East Africa, says:

“Our programs like GOAL, Youth Employability, and Women in Tech empower youth and women with real opportunities.”

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How Bena Care Scaled with Futuremakers Support