Description: The Zuri Foundation works to empower youth from slums in and around Nairobi, Kenya. It does so through employment, education and positive social support helping young people break the cycle of poverty.
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The Zuri Foundation works directly with a number of amazing charities and grassroot community initiatives in Kenya and Uganda which work hard to empower marginalised communities. The communities we work with are based in slums or are rural. The cycle of poverty into which people are born into or forced into by environmental or social circumstances and changes is harsh and relentless. Access to necessities (water, food and shelter) can be a daily battle. It is estimated that one billion people worldwide liv
Through access to education, employment training and business development communities are changing.
In 2013 we brought 10 young people to the UK from Mathare slum, Nairobi. Exposure to their community project (which used dance to engage youth in the slum), has led to life changing opportunities for a number of those who partook. In 2019 we facilitated sending 4500 books to a rural library in Uganda from a school in Liverpool. We have supported a youth employment workshop in Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum, for over 5 years and it is now self sufficient and profitable, having trained former street boys