Stories of Success

Clover Field Dairies

Nakaru, Kenya

For a smallholder dairy farmer, milk is only worth something if it reaches a buyer in time. Without a reliable market, a day's work can be lost.

For more than 300 smallholder farmers and cooperatives around Nakuru, Kenya, that market is Clover Field Dairies.

It began with a simple request. Customers at Stephen Mugo's butchery kept asking for milk, so in June 2018, Stephen and his wife, Rosa, divided the shop in two and installed their first milk ATM. At first, he relied on an outside processor to pasteurise the milk.

When relying on an outside processor became costly and unreliable, they built their own, opening Clover Field's processing facility in mid-2025.

Today, the company sources approximately 4,000 litres of milk daily from more than 300 smallholder farmers and cooperatives. It processes pasteurised milk and produces value-added dairy products, including yoghurt, mala and mursik, reaching consumers through milk ATMs, retail outlets, supermarkets and institutional buyers.

For farmers, Clover Field Dairies means a steady market, fair pricing and regular payments. “When farmers know they have a dependable buyer for their milk, they can plan with greater confidence,” Stephen says. The business currently supports 20 jobs and has paid out $41,619 in wages over the past 12 months.

In 2026, the partnership between Providence International and Kua Ventures, endPoverty’s Kenya program, enabled Clover Field to invest in essential equipment, including a milk cooling tank, yoghurt fermentation tanks and an ice cream machine, while also providing working capital to support its growth. 

For Stephen, whose Christian faith shapes how he leads, success is measured in quality, trust and opportunity, not growth alone.

As Clover Field expands, so does what it can offer. It means a stronger market for smallholder farmers, more jobs, more local processing, wider access to safe, quality dairy products, and more jobs created within the local economy.

One business, more than 300 farmers connected to a market, and livelihoods strengthened along the way.

That is the wider impact of a business that turns local production into lasting opportunity.