I have 3 more days in Kenya and I am bursting with excitement to go home for Christmas to be with friends and family and my fiancée. It doesn’t feel like Christmas here in the plus 25 degree Celsius heat,which has seemed to kick the rainy season out of the way for my final [...]
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Not long ago I received word from Kristy,our program manager at SKI in Canada,that a Canadian NGO was interested in receiving the Street Business Took Kit training for their local partners in the Eastern region of Sierra Leone. While I was familiar with the training material and of its benefits for budding young [...]  It seems like I’ve been here forever and I love it. There is nowhere I would rather be than in Moshi. It’s such a nice place to live and it’s so salama (peaceful). Between the views of Kilimanjaro and Mawenzi and the aggressive mamas at the market,I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m doing some [...] Last week when we made a trip to the Dandora dump site to visit the young men,they were all smiles,happy to see some familiar faces. However,as we walked down to the area where we were to have a mini chat with the men,I felt something was different perhaps because the [...] Click on this link to view Entrepreneurship Training Make a Better World Kenya (MABWOK) is a Street Kid’s International partner based in Mukuru slum,Nairobi,Kenya. The last few weeks have been quite the experience,as we embarked on a long awaited set of trips to finally provide beneficiaries of the ‘Linking Rural Youth with Knowledge and Opportunity through Micro-Enterprise’ project with finance in order for them to begin to engage in entrepreneurship in an effort [...] I keep asking myself,what will it take for Microfinance Institutions to open their doors to increase/ improve access to financial products and services to vulnerable youth? Business start-ups by youth are usually seen as too risky;as a result most institutions are reluctant to disburse loans. What role can organizations working with youth play in instilling confidence in MFIs [...] How do kids become street kids? Within the international development realm,we talk about systemic poverty,structural injustice,and lack of opportunities. Within the child protection realm,maybe it’s the failure of national systems to keep children safe – allowing abuse in educational institutions,unrecognized child rights in the legal system,and lack of child [...] | |||||
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