Do it for Mathare Foundation is a fundraising campaign that targets 1,000 individuals and organizations to support our activities. Currently, we are reaching out to about 10,000 young people. Young people in Mathare slums live in poverty and are affected by crime, drug abuse, early marriages and pregnancies, radicalization and rape. We are offering hands on solutions by not only training them in arts, media and sports but also offering life skills so that they can be responsible citizens.
Mathare is a settlement of roughly 400,000 people where vast majority of the population live under the poverty index, in houses of mud and corrugated iron sheet. Mathare is the oldest slum in Nairobi and lacks basic services like sanitation, clean water, electricity, and passable roads. As in many impoverished areas, young people from Mathare are at incredible risk for unplanned pregnancies, involvement in drugs and alcohol, crime, prostitution. This project will support 10,000 young people.
Mathare Foundation is a community based organization that provides educational programs and mentorship for disadvantaged youth in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Through hands-on training and technical workshops in photography,film production, performing arts (music and dance), sports, and stay in school programs, young boys and girls from Mathare can build confidence through learning new skills, discover opportunities for income generation, and envision and plot a course for future career
The project will educate and reach out to 10,000 young people to improve their skills in different disciplines so that they can improve on their livelihoods and have a better future. Young people will get a platform where they can nurture that their talents and they can also use the new skills set to transfer to other young people hence we will be perpetuating a cycle of young rising leaders and educators. The Mathare community will be a safe haven for everyone.
