Faraja Foundation

About us

Faraja Foundation, founded in 1999, is a charity organization that supports vulnerable people (poor Kenyans and refugees in nairobi) through spiritual care, humanitarian aid as well as by facilitating education opportunities in order to empower them so that they are able to take their life into their own hands.

Mission
To provide support to needy people to grow, expand and realize their full potential and capabilities

Programmes:
Education Programmes
• Secondary School sponsorships
• Vocational Training Sponsorship: Faraja Foundation supports students willing to shape their careers through provision of school fees to join vocational training institutions. Such programmes offer plenty of opportunity for on-the-job training and work experience. These programmes take a duration of up to two and a half years and comprise theoretical as well as practical elements.
• Mentorship: This particular activity aims at attaching students to mentors who can be their drive force beside academic prosperity and career growth. Faraja Foundation has a team of mentors who provide lessons, create connections and opportunities for the young professionals.
• Placements: The foundation facilitates placement students as testers and implementers into some of our major business units such as plumbing, electrical, metal works, mechanics, leatherwork, hairdressing and beauty and catering.
• Counseling in Education
Correctional Programme:
• Creative Skills: Faraja Foundation has been facilitating creative skills since 2008 in Langata Women´s Prison with the main objective to keep the inmates, especially the remandees, busy in terms of acquired skills. These skills go hand in hand with a recovery programme that focuses on the inner transformation, self-awareness and self-actualization of the inmates
• Capacity Building: Workshops and training courses for the prison and probation staff.
• Offender Management: Aftercare and support for reintegration into civil society is especially important for inmates that have stayed behind bars for more than 3 years such as the youth, the aged and offenders with special needs. This is very efficiently done through use of discharge boards in the prisons that link up the ex-offenders with individuals, companies or organizations that can offer support in reintegration back to the society.
• Counselling/Psycho-social Support: Faraja has a team of trained counsellors and also work closely with other partners specialized in this area. This is mainly because our clients both in prison and those that come to the office have gone through very traumatic experiences and are in dire need of healing through a good listening ear.
Livelihood Programme:
• Business Development and Skills Training. At Faraja Foundation, you receive expert advice to ensure you have a viable business idea and learn essential practical skills to help you run your business.
• Business Start-Up Support
• Mentorship: The activity supports the apprentices for the wage employment track and entrepreneurs developing business plans, business models, financial projections and explores vocational training opportunities through the micro-enterprise track.
• Counseling: It involves collection of information about livelihoods beneficiaries´ health, psychosocial, and educational needs in addition to identifying cases for referrals. Follow ups are done with the employed beneficiaries and career counselling provided.

Projects:
• Juvenile Justice Life Skills Project
• Educational Sponsorship Initiative

Jane Kuria is the Chief Executive Office of the Faraja Foundation.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.