A decade in the field, now one organisation.
Funguka was founded by Caroline Wanjiku to bring more than ten years of clinical psychology, hospital operational leadership, and community mental health advocacy together under a single institutional structure.
Healthcare and mental health advocacy
A decade of direct field interventions, community psychosocial training, and crisis response across Kenya.
General Manager / COO
Led comprehensive hospital operations while strengthening clinical HR processes, staff retention, and provider wellbeing.
CSR & Outreach Lead
Spearheaded grassroots community mental health programmes, medical outreach camps, and youth psychosocial education across five years of sustained delivery.
Co-founder & COO
Architected digital health infrastructure supporting healthcare workforce sustainability, burnout prevention, and provider wellbeing.
Funguka NGO
Unifying ten years of clinical psychology, community trust, and executive leadership into a single structured movement.
Our Five Core Values
Safety
Every interaction occurs in strict confidence, within ethical therapeutic guardrails where vulnerability is protected.
Dignity
We de-stigmatize psychological distress. Asking for guidance is an act of courage and self-preservation.
Prevention
By identifying stress and compassion fatigue before burnout or breakdown, we preserve emotional health.
Connection
Mental health does not exist in isolation. We engage caregivers, schools, and teams to build resilient support ecosystems.
Integrity
Grounded in licensed clinical practice, clear referrals when higher-tier intervention is required, and transparent metrics.
Led by clinical experience.
Clinical safety requires named responsibility. Every programme operates under the supervision of a licensed psychologist.
Caroline Wanjiku
Caroline brings over a decade of clinical experience and healthcare executive leadership to Funguka. Having served as General Manager & COO at Mulatya Memorial Hospital and Co-Founder/COO at OnLocum Online, she uniquely marries deep psychological insight with operational and financial acumen. Her clinical work spans youth mentoring, addiction recovery, law enforcement resilience, and transnational family support.
“Mental health support is not a luxury for times of total crisis. It is the dignity of having a safe space to open up before the weight becomes unbearable.”
Nelson Ondari
Adolescents, young adults and families. Assessment, counselling, addiction recovery and trauma-informed care. Clinical psychologist at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital and the Gender-Based Violence Recovery Clinic.
Benjamin Ochieng'
Ten years in clinical mental health, trauma-focused counselling, HIV/ART adherence support, and community interventions. Specialist in trauma recovery, debriefing and suicide-prevention work.