Category: Hatua

Hatua’s L.S.F scholarship recipient will be visiting Twaayf Children Center on 20th August 2011. Hatua’s staff and the beneficiary will spend the whole day at the children center where they will help clean the facility. This home hosts twenty two under privileged kids; and on this day participants will be cooking and get the chance […]

Recently programs director Kwame Mwakio and a representative from the junior achievers office in Mombasa had a sit down in which an intense exchange of ideas took place. Lewis from JA had come in for a small workshop to speak to residents of the community about company program. Company program is a flagship of JA […]

One of our students, Omar Suleiman Musa has on the basis of a demonstrated academic and leadership capacity been selected for the Equity Group Foundation Education and Leadership Congress! This is really exciting both for the recipient and for Hatua being that he is one of ours. The objective of the foundation is to give […]

Ag. Librarian Evans Wafula attended a workshop in Meru County to make a presentation on the Instructional role of a school library. All the invited guests attending the workshop seemed impressed and all the AFK members said that they had learned a lot thus, Evans felt appreciated. This made Lia, Audra and Maureen invite him […]

In June of this year the students and staff of Hatua Likoni attended the annual drug awareness walk.The procession trudged from the police station down the main road in Likoni county. In attendance was the chief magistrate, the provincial commissioner, district commissioner and the representative for the United Nations organization charged with drug awareness and […]

There is no such thing as public nursery education in Kenya. As a result children from poor families begin their education in Primary School, at age 6, while kids from more well of families enter primary with 3 years of school and a head start in reading, writing, counting and speaking English. Madaraka Community Nursery […]

Last week our students finalized their compositions based on Swahili proverbs and painted four large murals, each 8 ft x 5 ft. When asked all said they loved the project and most stayed late everyday engrossed in the work. Some were big picture artists, while others took on the detail work. Together they created murals […]

Stephanie Tholand, a 2010 Hatua intern, left a big mark here by designing a monitoring and evaluation program to help Hatua track its impact on the lives of our student. During her 6 month stay with us she also organised an ‘International Literacy Day’ event that brought together education stakeholders and students to highlight the […]

Todd Shapera, a professional photographer from New York, joined Hatua for two weeks in February to document our work in Likoni. Previously a print and radio journalist, Todd began his career as a photographer 15 years ago after having his early work published in the New York Times. His mainstay is event and portrait photography […]

On Sunday, Jan. 23rd 2011, Hatua Likoni welcomed 18 new students to our scholarship program in a ceremony held at Likoni’s Youth Empowerment Center. This brings the total number of students sponsored in primary and secondary students by Hatua Likoni to 70. The welcoming ceremony was attended by our new students, their parents and guardians, […]