Klub ujuzi

Klub Ujuzi (“Ujuzi” is a Swahili word for “Skill”) is a project founded through the Alternative Learning approach under the Nawiri program. Klub Ujuzi is a children’s table banking and mental health & wellness club, designed for school-going children aged 10-14 years (grade 4 to class 8) in rural public primary schools in Kenya to train them on income-generating activities and support them in improving their mental health and wellness as well as gaining financial literacy at an early age.

The Goal and Objective of this project is to support the learners in Elimu Fanaka’s partner schools and the community through financial literacy, mental health, and wellbeing.

Through this project, learners from rural communities will access quality and equitable education through alternative learning methods such as skills training. This ensures all members of society, especially women and girls and members of marginalized and underserved communities, can access and participate equally in educational opportunities, civil society, and economic activity.

Klub Ujuzi seeks to address challenges of lack of life skills, teaching environmental conservation, climate change, alternative farming methods and financial literacy, mental health, and well-being of the child, through activities such as;

• Apiculture
• Permaculture
• Animal Husbandry
• Beading
• Weaving

Permaculture is one of the projects under Klub Ujuzi. That aims at teaching learners how to grow vegetables together with trees on the the farm, to provide shade.

With the help of our partners from Harvesting for Good East Africa, learners and teacher have been trained on proper ways of farming e.g Landscaping, pest control using non-chemicals and crop rotation.

Permaculture also involves pure organic farming methods.

This is a beekeeping project engaging learners in schools we work with to learn basic skill on beekeeping activities.

Kighombo primary school has implemented the project for the past six months now. 50 learners were selected to take part in the project and they have learned basic beekeeping activities such as, beehive cleaning and management, how to harvest honey.

Learners will therefore sell honey to get money money to cater for needs such as buying books or buying food to sustain their lunch meal program in school.

EF has engaged 42 learners from Mwakingali and Kalambe Primary Schools in beadwork craft in the Arts & Culture program.

The program is aimed at developing learners skills in beadwork craft as a means of training them in financial literacy skills and mental well-being

So far, Mwakingali Primary School learners have been able to make and sell their beadwork items while Kalambe Primary School have had their introduction session in February 2023.

21 Learners at Marungu Primary School have been introduced into weaving craft under the Klub Ujuzi project. The learners are guided by 3 volunteer parents who facilitate the training sessions.

Learners from Marungu have been taught on basic weaving by preparing the weaving sisal strands then move to crafting of different craft items like mats, baskets and hand fan.

The weaving project started in February 2023 and has 1 training session per week.