Talents & Entrepreneurship
Since 2011, Miss Koch Kenya has trained 90 DJs and 165 dancers. Fifty of their peers have gone on to start their own businesses, backed by roughly $60,000 in MKK support.
Scale
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DJ Academy established 2011, now spanning music/recording, photography, modelling, fine arts, dance, fashion & design — 6 art forms in total
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90 DJs and 165 dancers trained (AICS deck)
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140+ youth trained across all 6 art forms combined
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365+ students transitioned through the programme since 2011
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50+ young people have started their own businesses, with ~$60,000 in MKK support behind them
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Ajira Digital online-jobs training
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ILO-partnered SIYB (Start and Improve Your Business) training
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100+ young people trained in ICT
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45 young people and 15 women trained in urban farming (vertical gardening, sack farming, mushroom farming) as an alternative income stream to illegal work
Idle time in Korogocho isn’t neutral — it’s what gangs and crime recruit from. Every young person MKK trains in a marketable creative or business skill is one fewer pulled toward that alternative. That’s the logic behind the Talent Academy, not just talent for its own sake.
Our Commitment
To keep providing safe spaces and real access to the creative arts industry, not just one-off training sessions.
To help every trainee develop opportunities to actually earn a living from their craft — through entrepreneurship training alongside the creative skill, not instead of it.
To keep building leadership from within: in past urban farming cohorts, graduates from Phase I became trainers for Phase II. The goal is the same trainer-of-trainers model wherever it fits.
To measure success as an entrepreneurial venture standing on its own, not just attendance at a training — the target is graduates who go on to earn and employ others.
