Miss Koch Kenya under its Education and Mentorship program seeks to improve accessibility to quality education for some high achieving vulnerable girls and children through undertaking interventions that deliver the rights of the child, Find bursary support for as many girls and boys as possible needing scholarships, improving learning outcomes by strengthening learning centers, providing holistic care and mentorship packages around scholarship, the provision of holiday and afterschool learning and support, counseling, life skills, advise on SRH, entrepreneurship and ICT skills and developing more and better trained mentors to guide, counsel and support those on scholarship. It is through the scholarship arm that the community is aware of the need to support its constituency through providing scholarship to high achieving and vulnerable youth whose parents may not be in a position to take them through 4 year secondary education.
MKK is looking forward to continuously serving her community by empowering minds and transforming the community through her various programs. Miss Koch Kenya is presently supporting 65 (35 girls and 30boys) students who have moving stories of how their lives are full of hope. This project will build on this foundation in seeking to ensure that more less fortunate youth, access their right to education.
This cause looks at educating 20 youth per year and growing our bigger vision of educating 100 youth per year until they accomplish their secondary education as they await their enrolment to universities for their dream careers. Having graduated 39 students from high school, now in various universities and tertiary colleges we are optimistic that the kind of young people we are nurturing will be dedicated leaders of this great nation. Also putting down a youth demographic dividend that will guide the economic growth of the ages that we serve in addressing inequalities and realizing solutions based on the youth needs within the communities. This aims at enhancing accessibility to quality education and facilitating best academic and extracurricular performance among the needy children in the informal settlements of Nairobi. The project has a two-fold approach that is Mentorship and Scholarship arm to empower young people.
Miss Koch Kenya (MKK) continues to broaden its investments in children and young people’s education and skills. Talents and Entrepreneurship seeks to achieve its goal in nurturing talents and skills and facilitate entrepreneurial mind-sets among the young people in the informal settlements as an approach to overcome high unemployment and hence ensure socio-economic wellbeing. MKK’s work in the creative arts and talent development for young people in dance, disc jockeying, fashion and design, modeling, film and photography, fine arts and music has been a huge success. Transitioning over 365 and above students who were beneficiaries of the project since its establishment in 2011 as a Disc jockey Academy. Currently we boast of over 50 young people that have directly started their startups through our support to a tune of $60,000. The Talent Academy is an initiative of the Talents and Entrepreneurship program to Nurture, Mentor and Grow Young Talented Kids and Teenagers from Korogocho and its Environs. The main aim of the academy is to nurture uniquely talented Children and young people so that they don’t engage in sexual activities and crime at an early age.
The organization has also had reasonable success in training 45 young people and 15 women in innovative urban farming techniques with support from local partners both philanthropic and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO). It keeps young people usefully occupied and enables them to earn an income from their talents, thereby diverting them from crime and other social ills. MKK will seek resources to have the equipment and people available to train and mentor and support young people as they develop their skills in these areas. This will include enhancing its recruitment processes, onboarding, training, and motivation of volunteers and interns.
That seeks to support young people’s mental wellbeing and facilitate informed decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health and ensure their rights are respected, protected and fulfilled in the informal settlements
That looks at enhancing the awareness and participation of youth in leadership and governance and the capability to demand, protect and preserve human rights in the informal settlements to realize human security for all.