Help Get Street Youth Out of Poverty in Kenya
KITO enables street youth in Kenya to escape poverty by providing intensive training, employment with KITO's businesses, educational scholarships, and business incubation. Your donation will help a street youth participate in the program and get off the streets.
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The Need
It is estimated that more than 300,000 youth live and work on the streets of Kenya. These youth face disease, poverty, exploitation, and violence.They survive by collecting scrap metal and washing cars. Some more vulnerable street youth turn to violence or prostitution. In a country with a 75% unemployment rate among youth ages 18-35, street youth simply cannot compete in the job market but KITO International is working to address this situation.
The KITO Training Program is a two month long intensive training program. The training focuses on entrepreneurship, life skills, financial literacy, and ICT. Upon graduation of the Training Program, KITO youth work for KITO’s business, EcoSafi, for 4 months in order to apply their new skills in a hands on setting. Each youth is then exited to start their own business, continue their education, or employment
About KITO International (Village Volunteers)
Partner since October, 2011
KITO International is a non-profit social enterprise in Nairobi, Kenya that is fiscally sponsored by Village Volunteers. They have a simple philosophy: give street youth an economic opportunity and they will WORK their way off the streets and out of poverty. KITO believes in giving a hand UP not a hand-out. When street youth are given an economic opportunity they become self-sufficient and will stay off the streets forever.
