Hatua Network News
Scholarships
July 5, 2021
Mombasa, Kenya (July 5, 2021) Hatua Network is excited to announce its three-year partnership with If International Foundation. Under its Education Thematic Domain, the Foundation has pledged to support Hatua over the next three years and help it extend its scholarship recruitment efforts to reach all public primary schools in Mombasa county. “Hatua is […]
Hatua’s student selection process in the midst of a global pandemic
June 24, 2021
Hatua’s scholarship selection process is well known by many to be very rigorous. We review hundreds of applications from a pool of bright, and deserving students who need financial aid before selecting those who will join our ten year scholarship program. The person behind this process is Steve Biko, Hatua’s Scholarship Officer. We sat down […]
HIGHLIGHTS OF HATUA’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
November 21, 2018
Saturday, 17th November was a special day for our organization. Our Annual General Meeting went down at JCC Church, Likoni. This is an annual gathering where we reflect and pass key resolutions for the coming year. Beginning from 8 am, stakeholders streamed into the church hall and everything was set to go with 300 attendees […]
Mentoring
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alumni Stories
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 […]
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 […]
Hatua alum, Diana Heri, is Changing the Conversation on Nutrition in Kwale County
February 29, 2024
Diana firmly believes that her life’s work is to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and layman’s understanding When she started her diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Kenya Medical Training College, Diana Heri was looking for a purpose. “I went into my Nutrition course without really knowing what I was doing but I was certain […]
#HowWeMadeIt: Sharon Otieno on Becoming a Young Trailblazer and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar in Europe
September 27, 2022
So, who is Sharon Anyango? Sharon Anyango isn’t your average 26-year-old. In fact, for the talented and ambitious Sharon, average isn’t the kind of career she wants to build. Since starting her industrial attachments and internships, Sharon has always been looking to the future and thoughtfully planning each step of her career. How it […]
Libraries
The Nyali Community Library Becomes a Hub for Local Children During School Break
June 23, 2023
In this fast-paced digital age, where the internet marks a great percentage of our interactions, children are often left to watch television and hardly get time to interact outside school. In such a time, there is something remarkably enriching about a visit to a community library, more specifically in this case, the Hatua Nyali Community […]
June 24, 2021
Hatua began its Fortified Uji Project in 2020 right before the pandemic forced schools to shut down. No students meant no uji (porridge); and the project, like so many others, went on a hiatus. When schools opened in January, Evans Omondi, Hatua’s Library Coordinator, spent more than a few sleepless nights working to get […]
October 19, 2020
Following the closure of all learning institutions in March this year, our network of libraries was affected and followed suit. Interestingly, our library department made the decision to go mobile to continue serving children and youth in Mombasa during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main focus areas for this program was to provide books to our […]
Hatua Re-opens Likoni Community Library at Ushindi Baptist
November 21, 2019
Hatua Network on the 16th of November held its 13th Annual General Meeting at the Ushindi Baptist in Likoni, marking 13 amazing years of offering scholarships, mentoring, career guidance and professional networks links to academically promising and high need students in Mombasa, Kenya. We kicked off the day with the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Ushindi Baptist […]
Partners
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 […]
Hatua Scholars Excel at Close The Gap Mombasa’s Internship Program
June 30, 2025
Connecting scholars in our program to job opportunities is perhaps one of the most important stages in our transformation cycle. As more alumni graduate from our 8-year scholarship and mentoring program, it has become increasingly important to build partnerships with the corporate community to support our students and alumni as they enter the workforce. Close […]
Celebrating 9 years of growth with Segal Family Foundation
July 28, 2022
For close to a decade, Segal Family Foundation (SFF) has been one of Hatua Network’s key partners, working with us to break the cycle of poverty for youth in Mombasa. In 2013, we were still a fledgling non-profit, abundant with vision but lacking the funding we needed to implement all of our ambitious ideas. In […]
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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 […]
Hatua Scholars Excel at Close The Gap Mombasa’s Internship Program
June 30, 2025
Connecting scholars in our program to job opportunities is perhaps one of the most important stages in our transformation cycle. As more alumni graduate from our 8-year scholarship and mentoring program, it has become increasingly important to build partnerships with the corporate community to support our students and alumni as they enter the workforce. Close […]
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 […]