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CHANUKA SKILLS HUB

Chanuka Skills Hub is a teens and youth empowerment initiative by Maisha Trust.

This program seeks to empower teens and young adults living in informal settlements with both professional and essential life skills. ‘Chanuka’ is a Swahili slang word that means ‘become smart’.

Chanuka Skills Hub is a teens and youth empowerment initiative by Maisha Trust.

This program seeks to empower teens and young adults living in informal settlements with both professional and essential life skills. ‘Chanuka’ is a Swahili slang word that means ‘become smart’.

Chanuka Skills Hub strategically runs during the school holidays; a time when children hailing from informal settlements are most likely to find themselves engaging in crime, drugs, pre-mature sex, and other detrimental activities. Through an array of creatively structured lessons, the participants of this program are engaged in activities such as dancing, drawing, painting and illustrations, poetry, fashion, music, culinary arts, film & photography, hair & beauty, ICT, life skills and mentorship etc. All sessions have been carefully crafted to give every participant a hands-on learning experience.

Why this program?

We strongly believe that children living in the slums are equally as gifted and possess amazing potential as their middle class counterparts, but what they lack are equal opportunities to discover and refine their hidden abilities. Abject poverty has proved to be a major obstacle. The heartbeat of this initiative is to change this sad narrative. Through partnering with diversely skilled individuals and organizations, we believe that we can transform their lives through this program.

Objectives of this camp:

  1. Expose the participants to different skills sets
  2. Identify and nurture inherent abilities, gifts and talents
  3. Create a platform for further training opportunities to the most promising, hardworking and talented children through strategic partnerships with relevant institutions.
  4. Creatively address the problem of crime, drugs and unhealthy sexual activities amongst the youth through constructive engagement and mentorship
  5. Practically demonstrate the of love of God through service to humanity

Target Participants

Number of Participants: 26 children (Boys & Girls of equal numbers)
Age: 12 – 15 years

Location

Chanuka Skills Hub will run at Oasis Kindergarten which is located in Kibera Slums, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera Slum is Africa’s largest slum and one of the largest urban slums in the world. Most Kibera residents live in extreme poverty, earning less than US$2 per day. Unemployment rates are high. 12% of the population is living with HIV. A great majority living in the slum lack access to basic services such as toilets, running water, and decent medical care.