Social Hub for Innovation Entrepreneurship Leadership and Design Thinking

We are excited to announce our partnership with Kibera Digital Village to support more Tech talents in Kibera in their tech and entrepreneurship journey. Through this partnership, KDV and SHIELD will co-design and co-implement programs, hackathons and innovation challenges to provide youths and creatives in Kibera with opportunities to break into tech. Through this partnership, we will be able to document and highlight the stories of entrepreneurs and their impactful projects in Kibera through Visual storytelling. We look forward to unlocking more opportunities and push boundaries for our community through this partnership! #impact #innovation #kiberatechcommunity #socialimpact #shield #kiberadigitalvillage

The SHIELD team hosted our friends from HoneyCoin led by the operations lead Hannah Maleche for a visit to our SHIELD hub in Kibera. This visit puts on spotlight the commitment of both organizations on empowering our next generation of tech talent. During the visit, we showcased the incredible work happening at SHIELD, where 15 passionate young people are gaining free software development and venture-building skills with the goal to build and launch tech enabled tourism ventures solving tourism related problems in their communities. We also explored potential collaboration opportunities with Honeycoin to provide workshops and mentorship programs in engineering, product development, and marketing. Together, we're committed to making a real difference in our communities. Stay tuned for more on this powerful partnership! #Honeycoin #Peer #SHIELDHub #TechEducation #tourism #socialentrepreneurship #CommunityEmpowerment

Last month, the SHIELD team welcomed representatives from Tusemezane Africa to the SHIELD hub! This exciting visit focused on exploring how we can join forces to support youth in Kajiado County. The discussion centered around establishing innovation hubs within Kajiado. By bringing tech education directly to these areas, we can equip young people with the skills they need to thrive in the digital age and be part of their community development. We look forward to achieving greater things together for the youths of Kajiado. #SHIELDIntl #TusemezaneAfrica #SHIELDHub #TechEducationForAll #CommunityPartnership #KajiadoCounty

Week two and three of our Software Development phase of the Tourism Development program is done! The learners focused on the following key topics: 1. Continuation of HTML 2. Git and Github 3. Introduction to Databases (SQL) At SHIELD, we are implementing a project-based practical learning approach where the kids are already building indvidual projects as they learn. #tech #socialentrepreneurship #softwaredevelopment #tourism

We have successfully wrapped up week one of the software development phase for our Tourism Development Program. The learners went through introduction to web development and focused on understanding HTML and it's application in developing web apps. #tourism #development #software #tech #shield

We've not yet gotten over the fun we had last weekend as we held our launch event for our inaugural in-person tech program, the Tourism Development program courtesy of TUI Care Foundation. This event also doubled up as the launch of our first physical hub in Kibera. We appreciate our friends and partners who joined us for this event and are committed to joining us in this journey to create and mentor new innovators and entrepreneurs from underserved communities. Here are a few photo highlights from the event... James Mugambi Eric Muriithi David Kiai Tamia Tukei Bomett Jessy Lesley Jost Neumann James Beaty Arie Ben-Josef Carolin Taenzer Impact Week Saskia Walther #socialentrepreneurship #tourism #development #community #tech

Today, it was all about good vibes and energy as we launched the Tourism Development program at our hub. Massive appreciation to our partners TUI Care Foundation , Kibera Digital Village Code With Kids Tunapanda Institute Founders Hub Africa and other supporters who joined us to make this event a success and motivate the 15 upcoming entrepreneurs as they take a 10 month long journey building tech-enabled ventures in their community. 📸 courtesy of Jessy Lesley #innovationmtaani #tourism #development #shield #tech #socialentrepreneurship

SHIELD is committed to supporting youths in underserved communities access resources to advance their tech and entrepreneurship careers. We are building an innovation hub to help nurture more technical entrepreneurs to solve social problems in their communities. Join us in this journey today💪🏾 We appreciate our partners in Kibera Code With Kids, Kibera Digital Village Tunapanda Institute who are playing a major role in upskilling and mentoring youths to become the next leaders and innovators in the community. TUI Care Foundation Impact Week Jost Neumann James Beaty Arie Ben-Josef Carolin Taenzer David N. Ben Peterson James Mugambi Eric Muriithi David Kiai Tamia Tukei Bomett

Today marked the completion of the 3-day interviews process of over 50 applicants for our Helping Hands Kenya, Tourism Development Program, an initiative funded by TUI Care Foundation in partnership with SHIELD. From these interviews, the final 15 high potential youths from Kibera will be accepted into the program where they will undergo 3 phases of training in 10 months to build tech enabled ventures in the Tourism sector. The program will culminate in a demo day where the learners will showcase their tourism based ventures to the world. We can’t wait to get the learners started on what will be an adventurous and intense 10 months of building real world solutions for the tourism sector. #tourism #socialentrepreneurship #tech #startups

Here are the end results of the IT Hub set up🔥 Now it’s time to focus on onboarding the learners to the Tourism Development program and get them started on gaining technical skills to bring those Tourism Ventures to life💪🏾 #tourismdevelopmentprogram #socialentrepreneurship #designthinking #softwaredevelopment