EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER FOR TEEN MOMS IN NAIROBI, KENYA

The MaMito project

Global Vision Achievers was initially formed as Kibera Vision Achievers Group on April 6th 2012, and later registered on December 19 ^th 2013. It rebranded to Global Vision Achievers (GVA) in March 2020. It started as a films and theatre group consisting of youths who used theatre presentations as a way of enhancing peace and unity in the slum community. This continued for some time until early 2015 when the members decided to change course, to reach more lives in a bigger scope. GVA got interested in working with the less fortunate in the society, more so the orphaned children in the slum communities of Kibera, Mathare, Huruma and other big slums in Kenya.

The MAMITO acronym is in Swahili, Mama Mimi na Mtoto, meaning me and my child. This Project is meant to support Young Mothers. In Kibera young girls of the ages 13-20 years get children but this issue is not always addressed. A large number of girls from the Kibera slums are dropping out of schools as a result of this. Global Vision Achievers(GVA) an NGO based in Kibera decided to launch a project to address this issue by building a center for girls in the slum with the aim to provide high school Education for duration of maximum 3 years enable them complete their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and short entrepreneurship technical courses to aid the young mothers in starting their own business as well. Global Vision Achievers has already put 50 mothers through the program and they are doing well with most opening small businesses to support themselves.

GVA in collaboration with Green Cards Mtaani will also provide day care for all the babies while their mothers are in school.

The GVA team is doing this program on a non-profit basis. The idea is formulated to help the girls get back on their feet and enable them be independent and able to take care of their babies. Having an education certificate and key skills is key for their livelihood.

Having a life changing sponsorship program that will crop up within the same is an added advantage.

Objectives

• Completion of the Kenya Curriculum subjects and the KCSE exams in various schools in the local community
• Entrepreneurship and Technical course training
• Day care facilities for all babies for the young mothers

How the young mothers benefit from the program

• Build their confidence
• Give them skills and help them nurture their talents
• Boost their morale in working hard
• Good bonding session with their peers and with the volunteer students.

SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 80 TEENS MOMS 2021

ITEM	COST per item	TOTAL COST
EXERCISE BOOKS	KSH 80	52,200
PENS & PENCILS	KSH 10	3,200
DICTIONARY	KSH 1500	75,000
MATHEMATICAL SETS	KSH 200	16,000
MATHEMATICAL TABLES	KSH 1000	80,000
KAMUSI	KSH 1000	80,000
TOTAL	KSH	306,400

VOCATION TRAINING BUDGET FOR 10 TEENS MOMS 2021

ITEM	COST per Month	COST PER TEEN	TOTAL COST
FASHON & DESIGN (3 TEENS MOMS)	KSH 7,000	21,000	63,000
HAIR DRESSING (4 TEENS MOMS)	KSH 3000	9,000	36,000
BAKING (3 TEENS MOMS)	KSH 3,000	9,000	27,000
TOTAL			126,000

BUSINESS CAPITAL 10 TEENS MOMS

ITEM	STARTING CAPITAL	TOTAL COST
FRUITS KIOSK (1 TEEN MOM)	KSH 10,000	10,000
SALOON (2 TEEN MOMS)	KSH 35,000	70,000
FOOD CORNER (1 TEEN MOM)	KSH 25,000	25,000
BEADS WORK (5 TEENS MOMS)	KSH 8,000	40,000
MANDAZI SHOP (1 TEEN MOM)	KSH 5,000	5,000
TOTAL		150,000

FULL MAMITO BUDGET 2021

DAY CARE BUDGET	KSH 892,000
SCHOOL BUDGET	KSH 306,400
VOCATIONAL TRAINING BUDGET	KSH 126,000
BUSINESS CAPITAL BUDGET	KSH 150, 000
TOTAL BUDGET	KSH 1,324,400

APPROXIMATE TOTAL BUDGET IS EQUIVALENT TO USD 10,000