All Mentoring Stories
Communication Skills for our First Cohort of Junior Secondary Students
August 13, 2023
Communication! Talking, writing and non-verbal gestures are probably what comes to your mind when you hear this term. To Hatua, it is not just a skill, it is one of the core competencies that we strive to equip our students with in preparation for the workforce. The Junior Secondary mentoring bootcamp themed; ‘There is value […]
Empowering Futures Through Mentorship
June 29, 2023
At the heart of every successful young person is mentorship. Holding the hand of a young person and offering accurate information on issues affecting them and the community is the focus of our secondary mentoring program. Mentorship the Hatua way: Holiday mentoring programs at Hatua provide a structured framework for our students to receive guidance […]
Cynthia Gathoni & Montana Ochieng: How Mentorship Shaped our Lives
April 13, 2023
Hatua’s mentoring program is a foundational pillar of our scholarship. Throughout their eight-year journey, our students are equipped with critical soft skills that will help them thrive in the 21st-century workforce. Among the youth we’re proud to see excel in our mentoring program are Cynthia Gathoni and Montana Ochieng, who are recent high school graduates […]
Mentor Finds Fulfillment Helping Mentee Discover her Passion for Teaching
August 16, 2022
A shared love for the Kiswahili language brought Mwanabiishe Mwamagadi and her mentor, Madam Meme Majiwa together. Md. Majiwa was Mwanabiishe’s Kiswahili teacher at Shika Adabu High School in Likoni. When Mwanabiishe joined Umma University to study Kiswahili and Islamic Religious Education, she naturally decided to go back to the one person she knew who […]
Hatua holiday mentoring receives a major upgrade
May 3, 2022
Up until recently Hatua’s holiday mentoring programs have always been an in-house affair designed and implemented by our mentoring team based on our years of experience working with youth. As Hatua has grown and we have spread our wings to serve more and more youth, we recognized we needed to further develop our mentoring program […]
How Mentorship Helped Mwanaidi Start a Youth Group
March 10, 2022
Only in her first year of college, Mwanaidi Hamisi is surely becoming a force to reckon with. She already is the chairperson of Mtongwe Youth Alliance, a youth group she started in 2019 with the help of her mentor, Mahmoud Noor, founder of Swahili Pot Hub. “I started a youth group to help reduce drug […]
How Nancy is spearheading mentoring for the 21st century workplace
June 24, 2021
Mentoring lies at the heart of Hatua’s scholarship program. It evolved from its humble beginnings as Sunday afternoon sessions which tackled simple topics such as how to make good decisions into what it is today — a solid curriculum touching on global, career-relevant topics and issues. Since January this year, Nancy Wairimu, has been spearheading […]
This is how Anita, Hatua’s “mentorship matchmaker”, works her magic!
June 24, 2021
At the beginning of 2021, Hatua was lucky enough to welcome some amazing people into our team. One of those people is Anita Akinyi, Hatua’s University Mentoring Coordinator. Anita wears many hats in her new role at Hatua. And a lot of exciting things have been happening since she started in January. We decided to […]
Hamisi Juma Giving Back to Hatua High School Students
October 19, 2020
We found Hamisi Juma in the thick of tutoring Gideon, Winnie, Alfred, Grace, Angela, and Samuel on how to calculate the surface area of solids, a form 2 Math topic. The session was so engaging and I remember having a brief bittersweet déjà vu. When Hamisi, a Marine Business Management 2nd year student at Moi […]
Keeping Hatua’s Gap Year Students Engaged during the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 28, 2020
As our secondary school graduates await to join college, Hatua, during their gap year offers a peer mentoring program designed to engage and nurture our secondary school graduates with hands-on leadership and soft skills development opportunities. But to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the department readjusted its training and is now using the Google […]