Kenyan Youth Get Self-driven
Promote youth entrepreneurship and particularly the business process through outsourcing is a growing trend Kenya. Lifeworks Shukrani, one of the organizations being supported by the government is carving a niche in the business outsourcing industry.
The organization is supplying products manufactured from Kikoi and Kanga materials to hotels in Kenya and the Far East. In a study done in 2010, in hotels in Kenya, the coast was cited as a viable opportunity for small businesses to sell the handicrafts and curios.
Lifeworks Shukrani, a social enterprise which empowers vulnerable women and older orphans through skills development and linkages to economic opportunities, set up a small textile production facility in 2007 at Mariakani, Mombasa. The facility manufactures items from Kikoi materials for sale to companies, public institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations like Kenya Tourism Board, Voyager, Aga Khan Foundation and Spinners Web.
聯(lián)合國青年技術(shù)培訓(xùn)2014年5期