Social Entrepreneurship

Our Focus

Learn For Life Kenya is committed to economic development in Kenya. Connecting young people to the vocational and entrepreneurial skills necessary to sustain themselves and impact their community is our goal.

While we are actively raising funds to build a vocational training center at the Tumaini Children’s Home, an orphanage in Nyeri, Kenya, we are also currently working with the greatest resource available for change: motivated, visionary, young people with a desire to impact their community! These young people all previously resided at Tumaini Children’s Home.

Working with our partners at Tumaini Children’s Home and the Tumaini-Huruma Alumni Association, Learn For Life Kenya supports economic development by strengthening vocational skills training initiatives, entrepreneurial projects, civic mindedness and sustainable methods through leadership development.

Bakery Enterprise

Learn For Life Kenya has launched a second social enterprise initiative with our partners: bread baking. Like the poultry enterprise, the alumni of the Tumaini Children’s Home will manage the bakery enterprise. This initiative will teach contextually relevant fundamentals in culinary arts and business.

Always committed to utilizing available resources, Learn For Life Kenya sponsored both the refurbishment of an older stone oven, donated a few years ago by generous friends of the children’s home, and the purchase of a new oven, along with other cooking appliances, supplies, and training necessary to position this initiative for success.

The bakery enterprise will provide fresh baked bread to the children’s homes and be sold in local markets. Lessons learned from this project will be incorporated into the vocational skills programming of the broader training center building project when complete.

Poultry Enterprise

Learn For Life Kenya will be launching a poultry farming social enterprise initiative with our partners. Managed by the alumni of the Tumaini Children’s Home, this initiative will teach contextually relevant fundamentals in agriculture and business.

Learn For Life Kenya shares this perspective and is committed to utilizing the resources available now in preparation to launch the poultry social entrepreneurship initiative. The goal is to scale to the surrounding community, which has a population of approximately 22,000 residents. Lessons learned from this project will be incorporated into the vocational skills programming of the broader training center building project when complete.

Impact Measures

Learn for Life Kenya will measure the effectiveness of the poultry and baking social enterprises along our three pathways to change: