Explore the centers
We are excited to host you this year! In the coming months you will be immersed in the social enterprise landscape in the slums of Nairobi and the realities of a social entrepreneur maneuvering to change the world in Kenya. The program will challenge you to unlearn what you are used to and practice your business genius to real life organizations. Once the application window was closed, the members who had applied for the program were interviewed and the program begun
Mpi-Kenya
About Mathare peace Initiative
Mathare Peace Initiative Kenya (MPI-KENYA) is a social network of Community Based Organizations based in Mathare and its environs. MPI-Kenya was formed in 2011 and registered in 2014 in the Office of the Vice President Ministry of Home Affairs, Heritage and Sports, Department of Social Services. The organization is among the pioneer grassroots’ peacebuilding organizations championing for a peaceful community in a resource constrained setting. MPI Kenya mandate is to strengthen the capacities of Communities to manage conflict in non violent, non-coercive ways by locals in their efforts to develop social and political Cohesion.
suggested project & deliverable
The suggested deliverable for this project is designing an impactful Youth Entrepreneurship programme for young people living in Mathare. The Education program is not inclusive to the group that dropped out of school before sitting for K.C.P.E (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) and also those who got poor grades after Form 4. Youth in this group often become idle and easily start involving in harmful activities including drug abuse and insecurity (theft), this group of youths therefore become a threat to the community and can be engaged in other activities for their survival. We believe that they can be developed in entrepreneurship as a pathway to self-reliance.
Ruben Center
About Ruben Center
As the only Community Centre, and “one-stop-shop” in Kwa Ruben, our diversity of projects enables choice and change for people who are caught in the “poverty penalty”, and, whose vulnerability is more pronounced because of the lack of government/donor-funded investment in this particular slum. In fact, over the past two years, the slums of Mukuru have been highlighted in a number of international studies, and these indicated the negative impacts experienced by this community, because of the minimal attention or support received from the Kenya National and County Governments.
suggested projects & Deliverable
Due to the diversity of the centre and the programs, the organization has many target groups across the Kwa Ruben Slum. These include school going children, children with disabilities, youth and teenage mothers.
Green Kenya
About Green Kenya
Green Kenya develops life skills among local youth through Sports for Development programmes. This project lies at the intersection of sports, life skills development, gender and environment. The organization has a wide array of active programs: Community Impact Project is a sport for social change concept that addresses United Nations Sustainable development goal UNSDGs every month through soccer themed sessions. The program runs for seven months in primary schools during physical education lessons. The sessions are conducted by professionals called Community Impact Coaches. Green-Kenya’s target is to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. The program promotes health, safety, education and leadership of girls at the grassroots level, and builds a community of passionate advocates who talk freely about challenges and issues facing the girl child. Youth league takes place in the heart of the community where our sport for development program takes place. The league engages young people who have nothing to do especially during weekends and when the schools are closed. The league has been in place to engage young people who are idle during the weekends and when schools close. Kick and Conserve concept is a tournament geared to teach young people how to be environmental stewards. We are targeting to improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning. Green-Kenya’s Consultancy Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, we do this through capacity building of Sport for development organizations in Africa.
suggested project & deliverable
The suggested deliverable for this project is developing an environmental literacy programme and/or life skills programme for adolescent girls in the local community..
Sunflower Foundation
About Sunflower Trust
Sunflower Trust was founded in 2017 and registered in 2018 as a charitable Trust under the law of Kenya. Sunflower is a literacy and leadership development program that provides holistic educational support to vulnerable children through literacy, technology, reproductive health education, arts and culture, life skills and sports. Sunflower believes in its LEADership principles which are the guiding force behind all of programming; we are building LEADers through the active cultivation of Love, Education, Action and Discipline. Every day, we challenge our Fellows (girls) to demonstrate our LEAD principles through their actions towards themselves, and one another. Literacy as leadership and a form of justice is at the core of our programming. Free literacy is not simply the ability to read and write fluently, but the ability to freely express oneself through reading, writing, discussion and arts. While there are many literate youth in the world, there are few who are truly freely literate; whose voices are heard, whose opinions and beliefs are listened to and taken into account, and who have the ability to fully express themselves and be who they want to be.
suggested project & deliverable
The suggested deliverable for this project is to create a sustainable business model for their in-school and after-school programs, enabling them to scale their social impact.