By Kirsty Erridge | Co-Director
Hello,
I hope you are well?
It's been an exciting few weeks here. We have welcomed our new cohort of students to Seed of Hope, the first time since January 2020! We also have some new Seed of Hope teachers who are very experienced and excited to be welcoming the new students. As part of a partnership with Enviral, an ethical brand marketing agency based in Bristol UK, they created a new logo and brand colours for Seed of Hope which has been very welcomed in the communities. You can read more about Seed of Hope below.
Last month we welcomed a new cohort of Seed of Hope students who will be studying; Motor Vehicle Mechanics, Catering and Hospitality, Hair and Beauty, Carpentry and Joinery and Fashion & Fabric Design. We also launched a new short 7 week course to teach business skills, financial literacy and computer skills at all three centres. This has been so popular in Nairobi we have had to create a second class!
We still have students registering to join the courses. After months of disruption from COVID-19 we're delighted so many are returning to education, especially girls.
The students decided they wanted to update their uniforms, from the usual blue shirt, so helped to design some new t-shirts, which match the new brand colour for Seed of Hope and are comfortable for them to learn in.
As part of launching the new courses we decided to refresh the Seed of Hope branding too. Enviral kindly offered to do this for us for free. They created a great new logo and colour scheme which has been used on all the new signage at the centres. The classrooms have also had a long-needed refresh and have been painted in the new bright colours.
We have launched a new Seed of Hope website which is specifically aimed at young people in Kenya to learn more about the courses available to them. If you'd like to read more about the courses we offer you can do so here www.seedofhopekenya.org.
In other news, we have just published our Annual Report and Accounts for 2020 - if you would like to have a look please visit our website here. It was the hardest year we've ever had to face and we couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for your unwavering support.
Best wishes
Kirsty
Co-Director
kirsty@raisingfutureskenya.org.uk
www.raisingfutureskenya.org
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