Ending Abuse Kenya Project #49418

Build a skills hub for 250 girls in Kenya

by Msichana Empowerment Kuria

Project Report | Jan 18, 2026
With Her A Skilled Future

By Magdaline Majuma | Programs Lead

EMPOWER 250 GIRLS: SKILLS HUB IN RURAL KENYA PROJECT REPORT Project #49418

Project Summary

The Build a Skills Hub for 250 Girls in Kenya project provides vulnerable and at-risk adolescent girls in Kuria and the Kenya–Tanzania border region with digital literacy, entrepreneurship, vocational skills, financial literacy and safe-space support. The hub equips girls with practical skills, strengthens their agency, and creates pathways to economic independence.

Activities & Progress

Over the past quarter, the project continued to expand learning opportunities and deepen community engagement.

1. Digital & Creative Skills Training

Girls enrolled in the digital skills sessions continue progressing in computer literacy, basic coding, online safety, and creative digital tools. Participants are also practicing typing, document creation, and multimedia skills to improve their readiness for future academic opportunities. The sessions are boosting confidence, digital exposure, and problem-solving capabilities among girls with minimal prior exposure to technology.

2. Life Skills & SRHR Learning

Weekly girls’ circles remained a safe and supportive space for learning and mentorship. Topics covered include self-esteem building, menstrual health management, decision-making, leadership, and healthy relationships.
Peer-led sessions significantly increase participation and confidence, with girls reporting greater comfort discussing personal challenges and asking questions during the circles.

3. Community & Caregiver Engagement

Two caregiver dialogue forums were held to enhance understanding of the hub’s role and cultivate household-level support. Caregivers expressed increased appreciation for girls’ participation and committed to reducing barriers that limit attendance.
Additionally, community leaders engaged with our team to strengthen local child protection systems and support SRHR and digital learning activities. This collaboration is helping create a more enabling environment for girls’ growth and safety.

Lessons Learned

Peer-led mentorship is highly effective; girls engage more freely and consistently when learning from fellow peers.

Caregiver involvement is essential in reducing dropout risks and ensuring girls have the encouragement they need at home to participate in digital and vocational training.

Looking ahead

Host a skills & community open day for caregivers, leaders, and potential partners to showcase girls’ progress and innovations.

Develop a digital learning resource library to support self-paced learning and broaden access to educational materials.

CONCLUSION

This quarter marks meaningful progress as the Skills Hub continues to evolve into a comprehensive empowerment space for girls in rural Kenya. Through expanded digital training, and community engagement, the project is opening new pathways for girls to gain confidence, skills, and economic opportunities. Despite resource limitations and infrastructure challenges, the girls are demonstrating remarkable resilience, creativity, and determination. We are grateful for the continued support from GlobalGiving donors and remain committed to ensuring that every girl who enters the hub is equipped to lead, thrive, and transform her community

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Aug 5, 2025
The Nexus For Girls

By Magdaline Majuma | Programs Lead

Co creation with the girls

Project summary
The project Build a skills hub for 250 girls in Kenya is an ongoing project that aims to provide free digital
literacy, entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy to 250 girls annually affected by child marriage,
teenage pregnancy and extreme poverty. With our focuse on empoloyerbility skils, girls get an opportunity
to build essential life skills, and access safe spaces for them to thrive.
Activities progress
Over the last quarter, we have provided targeted training to young women on financial literacy. The
sessions aimed at increasing their knowledge on financial skills which included managing their personal
finances. During the peer led discussions, significance of financial independence and aligning their
financial plan with their life operations plan were the main objectives.
As we continue with our efforts to support adolescent girls through skills development, our computer
literacy sessions during the last quarter have enabled girls of age 10-17 have access to digital literacy.
This included basic computer knowledge and digital safety, privacy, security and data protection. Co
created with the girls, these sessions aimed at responding to critical digital threats whereby girls from
rural and cross border communities in kuria are navigating digital spaces without support or literacy
required to protect their privacy, identities or wellbeing online.
Lessons learned and challenges

Empowering young women with financial knowledge such as budgeting and
saving builds their confidence and improves their agency. This is after feedback from the young women
such as Caro who shared that after she learnt how to budget, she now saves and is becoming financially
independent, as a result she can stand up for herself without fear of being intimidated by her husband.
Rhoda also shared “From the little amount I get to save, I help in buying household items without fully
depending on my husband’s provision”

The adolescent girls having to balance between their school time and computer
sessions.With the new competency based curriculum, the girls are required to attend classes during
weekends, this has affected their availability for the sessions and slowed the rollout of the digital
literacy modules. As a response, we are providing ‘catch up’ sessions which are short focused modules
for girls who miss during the weekend sessions. Additionally, we aim to maximize on the august school
holidays for the sessions.

Looking ahead
Moving ahead, we aim to equip our digital hub with more computers and learning materials. This will
meet the growing needs for the girls and will include upgrade of both hardware and learning resources.
Additionally, we aim to reach more young women in other villages for the tailored skills training to
ensure that more young women are empowered and spark transformative change within their
communities.

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Apr 5, 2025
Empowering Girls With Skills For Brighter Future

By Magdaline Majuma | Project Leader

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