All Hatua Stories
April 25, 2011
Recently another San Francisco based volunteer, Brigid Brahe, came to Hatua with a project concept for our students to paint murals of the local Likoni community during their Spring Break holiday. The project’s main goals were to teach students basic drawing and painting skills while allowing them to express their creativity, to learn teamwork, and […]
Hatua’s Interns Continue their Impact from Home!
April 1, 2011
Stephanie Tholand, a 2010 Hatua intern, left a big mark here by designing a monitoring and evaluation program to help Hatua track its impact on the lives of our student. During her 6 month stay with us she also organised an ‘International Literacy Day’ event that brought together education stakeholders and students to highlight the […]
March 15, 2011
The money raised during Likoni’s Library fundraiser in February is being put to use! Last week, Hatua hired a carpenter and purchased the timber needed to build 9 library shelves. Kwame off-loading timber After being purchased and planed in town we transported our timber across the ferry to Likoni and offloaded it in the library. […]
March 1, 2011
On Sunday, Feb 20th, eleven girls from the Likoni Scholarship Fund joined Gabrielle in Hatua’s office to receive clothing donations. Photo credits: Todd Shapera Alice Winkler together with Ariel-Alpha International, a US based sleepwear and lingerie company, donated underwear, bras and sleepwear for our female scholarship students, all of which was carried to us from […]
February 25, 2011
Todd Shapera, a professional photographer from New York, joined Hatua for two weeks in February to document our work in Likoni. Previously a print and radio journalist, Todd began his career as a photographer 15 years ago after having his early work published in the New York Times. His mainstay is event and portrait photography […]
February 10, 2011
Hatua Likoni has been fortunate to have many local and international volunteers over the years come to help us with the activities of our organization. This year is no exception! Samantha Cowles joined us for a second time in Jan 2011. She first volunteered with Hatua from Nov ‘09 to April ‘10, during which time […]
February 8, 2011
Today, 11 new students selected to join our scholarship program reported to Moi Forces Academy for their first day of high school. Spirits were high all around as they received their uniforms, shoes and books from theHatuaoffice, and headed to school to register and start a new chapter in life! The students with Kwame and […]
February 7, 2011
We are excited to announce that our Library Fundraiser this past Saturday was a huge success!! The Harambee raise 85,124 kshs,of which 9,450 came from parents of our scholarship students, 5,400 kshs from Cooperative Bank in Likoni, and 18,900 kshs from Post Bank Mombasa to be used to build shelves. In addition SDL Foundation has […]
January 26, 2011
Friends, Hatua is partnering with various stakeholders from Likoni to furnish and equip a library for students and the general public at the Youth Empowerment Centre. The building was built and finished using CDF (Constituency Development Fund) four years ago. However, its services never took shape since it was not equipped with the necessary infrastructure […]
January 24, 2011
On Sunday, Jan. 23rd 2011, Hatua Likoni welcomed 18 new students to our scholarship program in a ceremony held at Likoni’s Youth Empowerment Center. This brings the total number of students sponsored in primary and secondary students by Hatua Likoni to 70. The welcoming ceremony was attended by our new students, their parents and guardians, […]