Kawangware

The Kawangware Street Children and Youth Project. This remarkable organization is a locally created and managed business started by former street kids to provide positive opportunities to get kids off the streets in their community- a slum bordering Nairobi. The youth's primary income generating business is making silk-screened gift bags out of recycled paper and selling them to the safari tourism industry. Profits enable the participants to generate income for themselves and to take care of the community's orphaned or vulnerable children while providing a productive and positive environment for the youth. Groundbreaking on a new "green" workshop and multipurpose program facility to expand their operation and ultimately serve more youth is scheduled to begin in the coming months.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Kawangware
• Kenya
• Nairobi
• children
• slum
• gift bags