All Hatua Stories
Hatua Partners Debut Skills for the Future Curriculum in 3 Counties
November 10, 2025
Since unveiling our Skills for the Future curriculum in August last year, our mentoring team has been working with non-profit organizations across Kenya to help them implement and adapt the program to their unique contexts. Through facilitation sessions, we’ve introduced trainers to the content and shared effective techniques for engaging high school–age students. So far, […]
Matching Talent to Opportunity: Aaron’s Journey with Hatua and Offshore Global Logistics
August 7, 2025
Every weekday, Aaron Masha dons his safety helmet and reflector jacket and starts ticking items off his to-do list at a warehouse in the heart of Mombasa’s industrial hub. From inspecting client goods for dispatch, receiving incoming deliveries from manufacturers, checking inventory levels, to updating clients with critical information that helps them make the right […]
Meet the Hatua Scholars Tackling Food Insecurity with Technology
June 13, 2025
Second-year students, Fatuma Queen, Brian Joel, and three of their school peers, who call themselves the ‘Matrix’, have embarked on an ambitious project to revolutionize poultry farming within their school community. The project showcased their technical skills and underscored the transformative power of project development and management principles acquired through Hatua Network’s eLearning platform. Their […]
From Learning to Leading: How Bornveture Omondi Elevated His Internship Experience at KEMRI
May 22, 2025
Bornveture’s journey through his internship at the Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), Kemri Kisumu, is a shining example of how leadership and dedication can transform an experience into a success story. Bornveture joined the KEMRI CGHR Student Mentorship/Attachment Program from September to December 2024 for his second attachment. There, he quickly emerged as a […]
Sandra Akinyi is Empowering Pregnant Teens in Busia County to Return to School
March 26, 2025
As part of our tertiary e-learning mentoring program, our students in university and college are encouraged to ideate and implement projects that help solve a current challenge in their local communities. Not one to shy away from big challenges, Sandra Akinyi decided to take on one of the biggest challenges facing school-going girls in her […]
Facing the Interview Panel: Lessons in Empathy and Preparation
November 8, 2024
Guest post by: Hillary Ojiambo (Secondary Mentoring Officer) I still remember my first professional interview. I was a bored first-year student with a long holiday and desperate for something to do. As a student of Journalism, confident in my speaking and writing abilities, I walked into Imani Radio in Kitale. I wasn’t so sure about […]
Proactivity Takes Center-stage at Hatua’s 2024 Annual Student Camp
November 1, 2024
For three days a year, our college and university students pack their bags and head home for our Annual Students Camp. With students scattered all over the country, the Camp presents a rare opportunity to meet all of them in person, bond, and learn together. This year 223 students made their way to Bombolulu Workshop […]
Hatua Launches Open-Source Soft Skills Curriculum Platform at Inaugural EAC Education Conference
August 16, 2024
2024’s International Youth Day celebration marked a significant milestone for Hatua as we launched our long-awaited open-source soft skills curriculum platform, Hatua Skills for the Future. Meanwhile in Arusha As the website went live on Monday, Daniel Nyanga (Hatua’s Program Manager) and Nancy Wairimu (Hatua’s Mentoring Coordinator) were presenting a workshop to showcase the portal […]
Tabitha Achieng, the Electrical and Computer Engineer Shooting for the Stars!
July 1, 2024
“Shoot for the stars!” It’s a colloquial expression usually given to those brave and ambitious enough to pursue their dreams. While most people don’t take it literally, Tabitha Achieng, a fourth-year Electronic and Computer Engineering student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT), is an exception. Tabitha is doing exactly that—aiming for the […]
Purity Anyango’s Mentor Helped Her Pass the Bar Exam and Became Her Support System
May 15, 2024
When Purity Anyango completed high school, she hoped that like many of her peers, she would join university immediately. However, that was not to be. Her family was unable to financially support her university education, so Purity, determined to make her dream come true, applied for a Hatua scholarship. This is Purity’s story of […]