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Crafting a business idea as creative (Musician, painters, guitarist, DJ, Graphic Designers, Photographer etc.). On Saturday 1st February 2020 we engaged around 35 young creative on different pathways of kick start a business. Young people have the energy, diverse talent … Continue reading
Hope Raisers Initiative is a vibrant youth organization based in Baba Dogo Bega Kwa Bega centre. They are doing amazing work in the community through music, sound production, arts, DJ, skating and soccer.
On Friday 31st January 2020, we conducted a session that highlighted different areas within the organization system especially focusing on the below objectives;
Key take away;
Creative Entrepreneurship
Crafting a business idea as creative (Musician, painters, guitarist, DJ, Graphic Designers, Photographer etc.).
On Saturday 1st February 2020 we engaged around 35 young creative on different pathways of kick start a business. Young people have the energy, diverse talent that can transform ecosystem of the creative sector to the next level as pacesetters.
There are few spaces in Easterlands that offer the platform for the youth to train, amplify their voices connect and innovate as per the market needs.
Hope Raisers Initiative is at the forefront in ensuring the youth get the much need support in terms of technical and creative skills.
In an ever evolving market young people need to learn more in diverse areas despite having the best talent. Some areas that pose the biggest challenge to their personal and career development as creative entrepreneurs are:
Training objective;
Methodology used;
This was a more practical session whereby we used 20% to explain different insights and 80% used for group discussion and presentation as illustrated on the pictures below.
There is more we can achieve through collaboration than working is silos or in competition with each other, especially in the creative sector and social enterprise venture. One of the challenges is in finding the ideal partner that you share the common ideology around a subject matter, the values and the vision. Crafting a win-win balance is another hurdle that might come your way if you miss to connect with the ideal partner.
Good News!
We are happy to announce that Wilsen initiative and Hope Raiser Initiative have found common synergies to partner together in running the first pilot of Women Make It Happen program which will be hosted at the Hope Raisers office located at Baba Dogo Bega Kwa Bega centre.
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| Second left is Mrs. Helder Akinyi of DH Bakers donating the cake. |
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Cake donated by Mrs. Helder
Akinyi of DH Bakers |
About Women Make IT Happen program
This is a platform to train, mentor and encourage women from Eastland’s in Nairobi, Kenya to take a more pro-active approach in leadership, business and technology. We will be hosting training boot camps (master classes) and events around the three thematic areas. We target women from the age of 17yrs to 35 years.
What informed the idea?
Due to the high cost of education, especially after secondary education, not many youth and women from informal settlements in Eastland’s are in a position to train themselves further to the desired level and the lucky few who have been able to get a college or university training finds it tough to venture into self-employment in a job shrinking economy.
The situation is even worse for school dropouts who face a number of challenges and will do anything to survive within the many chains of disruptions and evolution that is taking place, it is important for anyone who wants to stay relevant to identify areas for growth without the exception of business, technology and leadership.
Our Mission: We want to provide different learning experiences as a result inspiring new culture for self-learning, adaptability, innovation, creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and lifelong learning.
Our Values
The Goals
We champion the 17 SDG’S and choose to focus more on;
We want to provide different learning experiences as a result inspiring new culture for self-learning, adaptability, innovation, creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and lifelong learning.
Program Cornerstone
Objectives
Expected Outcomes
You can be part of the program as an institution, guest lecture get in touch with;-
It was a great pleasure to connect with Mrs. Helder Oduor who was one of my students at NairoBits in the year 2007/08. It’s now 12 years since we met, I was very surprised and honored when she reached out to me on social media with an offer for a free cake that was to be delivered to one of my sessions.
On 2nd February 2020 we had a great session at Hope Raisers Initiative in Baba Dogo about how to craft business ideas as creative either as a musician, painter, graphic designer, DJ etc. It was the perfect timing to host Helder as a guest speaker, she shared her journey in business starting with her desire to start a business to the current status.
Helder’s journey started as a creative from graphic designer to owning a business in bakery among other ventures.
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| Cake baked and donated by Helder Akinyi of DH Bakers |
Helder runs a bakery business called DH Bakers, graphic design services, matt weaving among other business.
Key take away from her insights.
Hope Raisers initiative and Wilsen initiative seek to organize more inspiration journey of Women, especially targeting technology, business and leadership inspire a community of women to do more and be more.
It is a journey we have started and we hope it will spark the ripple effect to get in touch with the ideal partners to do more together.
We want to build lasting, structured networks between Women in Eastland’s and beyond inspired through technology, business and leadership.
Read more about Women Make It Happen and you can be part of the program as an institution or become a guest lecturer.
Mr. Wilson Masaka
Wilsen initiative (Wi) founder
Wilson.masaka@gmail.com
Mr. Daniel Onyango
Director, Hope Raiser initiative
onyangodaniels@gmail.com
Wilsen Initiative 