Being a talented youth from a poor background can mean monstrous amount of suffering to a lot of people. The mere fact of knowing you can use your talent to impact the lives of several others but lacking the means or guidance to execute you plans can be excruciating.
It is in this spirit that Safaricom founded a revolutionary new project, The M-Pesa Foundation Academy, with the aim of uplifting the poor and vulnerable in the Kenyan society.
The vision is already paying off with 12 projects solely carried out by students from the academy impacting lives all across the country.
Here are the trailblazer projects set to disrupt the employment sphere rife with horrendous stories of youth who’ve never found substantial work.
The HoneyComb Salonist
A legendary craft that continues to take center stage in this millennial era of beauty.
The Foundation’s Salon has however added an exclusive twist to the craft with a vision of giving clients both an inner and outer glow.
The trick is giving a superior customer experience at an affordable price while maintaining a happy attitude.
Sumptuous Pastry Cafe
With a slant to the healthy side of humanity, the Foundation’s students have poured out their blood and sweat in order to create a sumptuous universe of delicacies.
They are aimed at delighting customers every time through creatively curating pastry dishes from the heart.
The Artwork Enterprise
With the first drawing successfully presented to the Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed, the institution combines creativity, diversity and unity of purpose in its use of art as an expression.
The students are now using the principle to drive their artistic excellence and innovation to benefit themselves and communities around them.
A Forthright Poultry Farm
Poultry has been the backbone of the country for a while now and good quality has been the hallmark of it all.
To reignite the country’s well respected appetite to birds, the Foundation is making a difference by efficiently and effectively producing quality eggs to enrich people’s lives as they strive to bring forth positive change.
A Lavish Haircut
The boys have always immensely cared for their haircuts for generations now and with Bigyz Cutz professionally and friendly concentrating on delivering quality hair cut services to clients, youth cannot be more satisfied on either end of the conversation.
The Sungura Center
A lot of unnecessary hype has been put on beef, mutton and goat meat with utter disregard on other equally deluxe meat offering like the rabbit meat.
The Sungura Center however looks to change all that with a dedication on highly nutritious yet affordable food supply to the society.
Healthy Family Living
If a plate of meat is not your preferred cup of tea, The foundation has a separate arm of value-adding functional Proteins from the farm.
The business is structured towards producing healthy and good quality food in the right way influenced by a healthy environment.
The Photography Printer
Jac Printers fully understands how important it is to look good in this age of instagram and snapchat. Through providing individualised solutions to clients, the business is establishing itself as a frontier in preserving customers’ memories through unmatched photography services.
The students are hence launching themselves as frontier experts in the trade.
The Business behind Businesses
Accessorize Biva has been watching what customers consume and has specialized in creatively exploiting talents to improve and invent the existing market products.
Josari Foundation Shoe Makers
Besides creating employment to the Kenyan youth, the business is looking to fill the gap experienced by both individuals and institutions through providing high quality shoe makes and mends.
Rakego True Shine
The students are focusing on nice looking garments for everyone. They mend and make garments seamlessly to ensure that both students and staff look neat at all times.
CraftyMat Creatik
The Creative market including products is set to expand the learners creative thinking, business management and time management abilities while providing unique, strong and durable products to the public.
