The Diamond Jubilee offers an opportunity to reflect on how this civil society role has evolved in fruitful partnership with the government to benefit Kenyans. In health care, last year, AKU, AKF and AKHS supported three hospitals and 54 outreach medical centres; treated 30,000 inpatients and a million outpatients; provided access to 50,000 through 14 public dispensaries; and saw 94,000 patients at free medical camps. In education, AKU, AKF, AKES and AKA educated 6,400 students. Over a million students were impacted through AKF programmes for public and low-cost private schools.