Education & Training Ongoing Program Activities
Education Support Initiative
Over a period of 10 years, Sauti Kuu has supported over 30 young people. Of these 1 during Primary Education, 16 during Secondary Education, 8 are in vocational training and colleges, and 4 during university.
Library & Reading Club
The Sauti Kuu Barack Hussein Obama Sr Centre for Learning, Knowledge and Excellence has a well stocked library with a range of books and reading materials. The Sauti Kuu beneficiaries, their families and the wider community have through the books, access to information that can deepen their learning or simply arouse their curiosity and stimulate them to read and further their education.
Other activities in this space are storytelling to entertain but also to learn. Reading stories and being read to increases literacy, imagination and, in a group, social cohesion. It is also about telling your own story and thus defining, expressing and making tangible who you are and what you want to make a difference in the world, building self-esteem and making yourself visible. Sauti Kuu aims to strengthen this competency. Stories are not only read and heard, but also created and told. In this way we provide a creative framework in which children and young people, in groups and individually, have the opportunity to express themselves in writing and verbally, to try things out, to learn, to experience and to gain self-confidence.
Skilled Crafts Training
The Sauti Kuu Vocational Training Project, Skilled Crafts For Future, implements an approach that is a practice-oriented educational system. This is a system that aims to introduce practical experience to skilled crafts training right from the outset. It offers a unique combination of practice with the theoretical foundations of skilled crafts training. Practical expertise is promoted based on the principle of ‘learning by doing’. In addition to this social competency’s and soft skills are also taught while competence and competitiveness in the labour market is ensured. More information can be found under 'Current Projects'.
Computer Literacy Training
Particularly at a young age and in the wake of advancing digitization, it is especially important that children and young people are taught how to use the new media in an informed and responsible manner, in particular with regard to the use of the Internet as a medium to source information and exchange data.
Sauti Kuu wants to use this platform to expand access to education and increase options for earning a living. Children and young people, who are unable to go to school due to lack of fees or other obstacles, or find employment, can access via digital learning courses that can enabled them to get an education, qualifications and/ or employment.
External Internship
Sauti Kuu in cooperation with partners offers young people the possibility of a foreign traineeship. During this time, the aim is to motivate them to become inquisitive and eager to learn while gaining an insight into the professional world of work. An important principle is to strengthen the young people's self-confidence.
For many young people it is a big step to do voluntary work far away from home. In most cases, their past is marked by poverty, violence, poor nutrition and hopelessness. With the internship, they are not only introduced to their future profession, but also participate in recreational activities. The aim of these internal internships is not just about work but also about having fun and enjoying the experience.
So far, 29 Sauti Kuu beneficiaries have had the chance to do an internship abroad.
"There may be many borders between Austria and Kenya, but as soon as it comes to supporting young people and thus taking pioneering steps, we at Hotel Larimar see our commitment as boundless. We greatly appreciate the cooperation at eye level with the Sauti Kuu Foundation and Dr. Auma Obama and look back on years of successful cooperation." Johann Haberl, Hotel Larimar
