Learning through play - Project Elimu

Access to menstrual products for every girl
Access to co-curricular activities for every child
Access to play for every child
Access to menstrual products for every girl
Access to co-curricular activities for every child

Poverty has a way of disrupting a child's mind while education has the ability to trigger resilience and determination in that child's life - Mike Wamaya

Programs

Project Elimu, we are a community-driven non-profit organization championing after-school activities for children living in Kibera and other informal settlements in Kenya. Our programmes are for young people and by young people. The programmes are innovative, inclusive, and use participatory art-based methods.

Arts Program

Our arts program is non-competitive with an open door policy where every child is given a platform to join regardless of their ability. The children learn ballete dancing, painting, playing music instruments among many other activities

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Smile Bank(Sexual Reproductive Health)

Sexual Reproductive Health Rights program. The programme is designed to address challenges around the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs of school-going adolescent girls in the informal settlements of Nairobi.

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Digital Literacy

With expanding globalization and digitization of business and government transactions, the need for digital skills is inevitable. Most schools in Kibera do not have access to computers or libraries. That's what compelled us to start the digital literacy class and open library.

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Community engagement

We are empowering the community to teach children 21st century skills. We engage the community through lobbying, events, outreach and partnerships to advance our missions.

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Purpose

Project Elimu was established in 2017 to fulfil the urgent need for an alternative education system for the ever-growing bottom of the pyramid school-age children and young people. Project Elimu supports young people to come together and learn from one another by exchanging ideas and experiences. Project Elimu also imparts new skills, knowledge, and information to help young people explore their potential and creativity: who they are, what they think and believe, what they want for their future, which has boosted their confidence and self-esteem.

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The developmental themes that we focus on include: Education, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Diversity. Project Elimu uses a creative and innovative art-based ballet dance approach to address and communicate its developmental messages, a medium that attracts many young people in Kibera.