International Transformation Foundation (ITF)

About us

Consequently with belief that education is the key to tackling youth unemployment and poverty worldwide, in December 2009, International Transformation Foundation (ITF) was established by amalgated youth across East African countries and dully registered in Kenya on August 25th as an international, youth led, non-profit organization that provides youth leadership and entrepreneurship programs to harness creativity in youth an provide a system that provides jobs offering security, opportunities to grow and contribute to the development of communities.

ITF is an international youth-led non-profit organization
• providing youth educational and self-development programs
• encompassing leadership and entrepreneurship to harness creativity for a youth system that provide jobs,
• offers security, opens opportunities to grow and contributes to the development of communities.

Projects:
• Jijenge Fund: The Jijenge Kijana Fund is a youth livelihood pathway offering micro-credit, micro-saving and training enabling ITF members to engage in productive and stable livelihoods. This project aims to fund a business that leads to sustainable livelihood for the applicant.
• Join the Pipe: The Join the Pipe project aims to install sustainable tap water stations near playgrounds, city centers, parks, schools and bus stations in Kenya; for people to drink clean tap water whenever needed. The project also works to bring awareness on environmental impact of production and waste of bottled water.
• Reflect Experiment Capture (REC): Reflect Experiment Capture is a project entailing art, experimental filmmaking and new technologies and violence prevention in a single initiative. It tackles violence in general and bullying in particular through experimental filmmaking as an innovative and attractive technique for any audience, especially the youth which is our target group. This improves the administrative functioning, social and dissemination skills.
• Young Social Innovators – Engines of Social Change: The project aims on one hand to conduct a comparative analysis of Youth Issues, Attitudes and Policies in relation with the social innovation processes from the perspective of various world regions, and on the other hand to promote the recognition of Youth Work by building youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to empower young people for using social innovation in finding local answers to complex social and societal challenges in participating communities.
• Social Entrepreneurship Training 4 Youth Power “SET YP”: “SET YP” activity plan contributes “to acquire and develop a mix of knowledge, skills and aptitudes that the youth need to succeed in the labour market”. The project aims to develop structured and innovative solutions towards increasing employability potential of young people throughout providing them with knowledge on social entrepreneurship & innovation.

Sheila Murugi is the Operations Director at the International Transformation Foundation (ITF).

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.