Youth Skills, Enterprise & Employability

To equip young people with skills, mentorship, entrepreneurship and pathways to employment or self-employment.

About this programme

What this work involves.

To equip young people with skills, mentorship, entrepreneurship and pathways to employment or self-employment.

Foundation team members visiting a young entrepreneur at his roadside food cart.

The real impact

Empowering young people through enterprise: Dan’s photography business

Dan smiling as he works on the laptop the Foundation helped him acquire for his photography business. — Dan at the laptop the Foundation helped him acquire, which lets him keep developing his skills and serving clients.

Dan finishing a mounted graduation photo in his home photography and photo-mounting business. — Dan finishing a mounted graduation portrait for a client.

Dan holding a finished mounted graduation portrait he produced for a client. — Dan with a finished mounted portrait. His services include photography, photo editing, mounting and framing.

Dan measuring a mounting board at his workbench, with framed portraits he has produced on display. — Dan measuring a board for photo mounting. His vision is a cyber cafe combined with a professional photography studio.

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The real impact

From one machine at home to a growing tailoring business

Before: Mr Owino's small tailoring corner at home, with a single sewing machine and a few finished shirts hanging on the wall. — Before: where Mr Owino started, with one sewing machine and a few shirts in a small room at home.

Mr Owino at work at his sewing machine in his tailoring workshop, with finished robes and shirts on display behind him. — Mr Owino at his sewing machine. The business that began with one machine at home is now growing.

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Stories from this programme

This work in action.

October 3, 2026

Empowering young people through enterprise: Dan’s photography business

Dan runs a small photography and photo-mounting business from home. With a laptop from the Foundation, he dreams of a cyber café and photography studio.

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October 2, 2026

From one machine at home to a growing tailoring business

Mr Owino began with only one sewing machine in his house. With tailoring support from the Foundation, his business is now growing.

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Foundation team members with a trader at his roadside potato stall.

August 7, 2025

Rooted in the market: growing a roadside potato trade

Buckets of potatoes, a roadside stall and a trader building a livelihood one sale at a time.

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Hope Market sales fund women's and youth enterprise, school fees and monthly sanitary pads.

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We welcome programme grants, technical assistance, equipment, market linkages and co-funding.

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