HKSAI beneficiaries
HKSAI
HKSAI provides counseling and mentoring services to empower young people with the information they need to lead healthy and dignified lives. The organization also helps teens attain quality education through scholarships and provides financial resources and skills development to help young people start their own small businesses.
We at Hope for Kenya Slum Adolescents Initiative would like to extend our deepest gratitude for your unwavering support and generosity, Population Connection. Your continued contributions play a crucial role in helping us bring our projects to life and create lasting positive impact in our community.
Our partnership enables us to pursue our mission and work towards inspiring adolescents and youths leading independent, dignified, and healthy lives. We are truly inspired by your dedication to our cause and couldn’t achieve our goals without you.
Once again, thank you for your trust and investment in our work. We look forward to continuing our collaboration and achieving even greater success together in the future.
– HKSAI, December 2024
HKSAI’s training program provides teachings on social entrepreneurship and savings, impacts of drug and substance abuse, adolescent sexuality and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and prevention of gender-based violence. HKSAI also creates a space for young people to demand social justice through community dialogues, which help engage policy makers on issues affecting young people, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, early and forced marriage, and gender-based violence
HKSAI was founded in 2018 by Melvine Ouyo. Growing up in a small village in Busia County on Kenya’s western border, Melvine witnessed firsthand the pain and suffering of women and girls due to gender-based violence and teen pregnancy. Her own mother was only 16 when she gave birth to her.
“Defying all odds, I promised myself to work to reverse structural biases that expose women, girls, and other vulnerable individuals to such vices and depravities as gender inequities, early and forced marriages, gender-based violence, and lack of education, by providing them with opportunities for social and economic empowerment.”
– Melvine Ouyo, HKSAI Founder and Executive Director
Photo: Melvine Ouyo at the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning in Pattaya, Thailand. © Olivia Nater, Population Connection
Milly, a HKSAI secondary school beneficiary, all smiles after a successful admission to Form One and the assurance that her full tuition fee has been paid by HKSAI at her dream school. A dream come true for Milly, whose elderly parents could not afford school fees.
Photo Credit: HKSAI
HKSAI beneficiaries
HKSAI beneficiaries during their graduation at Grandlys School of Hairdressing and Beauty-Kayole in Nairobi.
Melvine and HKSAI beneficiaries pose for a photo.
HKSAI community dialogue and sensitization forum.
Hope for Kenya Slum Adolescents Initiative (HKSAI) activation with Population Connection banner in the background.
Experiential learning. Hope for Kenya Slum Adolescents Initiative (HKSAI)
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