Job Skills Training for Marginalized Kenyan Youth

Friends,

As the year draws to a close, we want to thank you for all that you have made possible! Thanks to you, our new project - to provide livelihood and live skills training to the impoverished youth of the Shauri Yako community - is on its way.

We have acquired 4 new sewing machines in preparation to launch a new tailoring and dress making program and recruited a volunteer teacher. We're eager to raise to buy the 4 additional machines we need to get going (1 for disabled students)! 

Are you still searching for holiday gift ideas for someone that has everything and likes to have an impact? How about donating toward the cost of these machines and changing the life course of trainees?

Tailoring skills are in high demand in our community because they provide opportunities for self-employment and home-run businesses and have low start-up costs. All of the students that SYSC trained in tailoring and dressmaking in past years are successfully self-employed.

We are also ready to launch a new masonry, plumbing and tile fitting training program in early 2020, once we raise funds to cover trainees' workers compensation insurance costs. And we're thrilled to tell you that all 12 of the youth who trained and apprenticed in 2019 in partnership with Options for Homes Kenya have secured employment. 

It is because of your generosity that we are able to empower youth with these skills, so they may escape the challenges that poverty brings.  

Thank you for your kindness.

Joe Mwai