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About Us
Tumaini Innovation Center is a Community Based Organization (CBO) that seeks to address the unique challenge of vulnerable children and youth. Street connected children and youth are a vulnerable population who miss their opportunity for education, training, and lack access to health care or other rehabilitation services.
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Our Mission
The Tumaini Center seeks to engage vulnerable youth in a revolutionary new educational model that breaks down educational barriers faced by street youth and other vulnerable youth in a changing society, leverage their inherent resourcefulness, resilience, and independence, and equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to not only get off the streets but to have successful and productive careers in their community.
The program empowers them with hope, knowledge, skills, opportunities, and resources necessary for them to earn a positive livelihood off the streets. These livelihood opportunities include learning vocational skills like Motor Vehicle Mechanics, Metalwork and Fabrication, Carpentry, Masonry, Electrical & Solar Power Installation, Hairdressing & Beauty Therapy, Catering, Life Skills and Entrepreneurship Skills, enabling them to access employment, or start a business, reunite with their families, live communally or independently.
Tumaini Center supports and empowers them towards their chosen future.
Our Approach
Equipping vulnerable youth with innovative education and training for a better tomorrow.
The Tumaini Innovation Center (TIC) seeks to engage vulnerable youth in a revolutionary new educational model that break downs educational barriers faced by street youth and other vulnerable youth in a changing society, leverage their inherent resourcefulness, resilience and independence, and equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to not only get off the streets but to have successful and productive careers in their community.
The program empowers them with hope, knowledge, skills, opportunities and resources necessary for them to earn a positive livelihood off the streets.
Mission
To engage vulnerable youth in a new educational model that break downs educational barriers faced by vulnerable youth in a changing society to have successful and productive careers in their community
Vision
To be the top innovative institution that integrates rehabilitation through basic education and vocational training for holistic development of the learner.
Core Values
Innovation
Excellence
Sustainability
Community Centered
We Educate
We provide basic literacy, numeracy, science, life skills, Vocational Training and general knowledge to street youth and community youth in Eldoret.
We Provide Medical Care
We provide street youth with health care and integrate them into a system of care.
We Rehabilitate
We provide critical health services including substance abuse rehabilitation and mental health counseling.
We Accommodate
We strive to provide support to all those in need through accommodating them and giving them the basics they require.
Breakthrough Innovation
Innovation is core to Save the youth’s identity now and forever. Innovation is essential to achieve our ambitious goals for the youths in the 21st Century Market.
Apprenticeship
We operate and maintain a transition rehabilitation center for street youth in Eldoret.
Case Management
We desire to develop an maintain a comprehensive case management system for street youth and community youth in Eldoret.
Community Partnership
We develop mentorship programs where community members, vocational trainers, potential employers, businesses people become mentors/role models to the youths.