By Claire Baker | Director of Development
3 months ago you generously supported our campaign to train and equip 50 youth and women in Kenyan slums with the skills and resources needed to become empowered clean energy entrepreneurs and changemakers. At the end of the campaign we had raised enough money to train 55!
Since then, we have indeed gone on to train 55 youth and women, with a 58% majority women, across the country. From Mombasa, to Nairobi, and to the shores of Lake Victoria, in Kisumu, we have provided each of them with a three-week training in sales, marketing and communications skills, and in personal empowerment and confidence building.
These trainees have then gone on to earn an income from the sale of clean energy products (solar lamps, chargers, clean-burning cookstoves, water filters, etc) in their communities, that LivelyHoods has given them and trained them on.
"I've learned so much from the training, and I want to keep on learning because I think I have a lot of potential", Mary, LivelyHoods trainee, Nairobi.
LivelyHoods provides constant ongoing training to all trainees, through a daily training session in their local branch, where they hone skills such as product pitching and public speaking, and share lessons and challenges as a group. This is essential in continuously building on what they have learned, and applying it to their income generation activities.
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