Board Director Juan and his wife Rosario along with a few volunteers were able to successfully pack and deliver food care bags to the women in the community in Mexico. 23 women/their families were served. We also want to thank our friend Miss Emma for her support and work in this activity! Emma has been serving her community for so many years and we are so thankful for her involvement! Juan, we call him Chief since he serves in a high ranking law enforcement role, monitored t

There are so many excellent quotes about leadership floating around out there, but these here really stand out. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis “ – Brian Tracy “Anyone can lead when the plan is working. The best lead when the plan falls apart “ – Robin Sharma “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems” – Brian Tracy “In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams” – Afr

Since our Maridadi Skills Teachers re-purposed the skills space to mask making from the COVID-19 outbreak, they have made 480 masks to date using the fabrics and materials the friends of The Angaza Project provided. We continue to give them out in the community for free on a daily basis (we just have to be more calculated when passing them off due to the ban of issuing of anything in the community). After the masks are chalk marked on the fabric, cut, pinned and then sewn tog

Planning and organization are key, especially when carrying out work in the community. Yesterday in Kibera, there was an unfortunate situation that occurred at the District Office where an unplanned food distribution took place resulting in chaos, leaving many injured. There are various news outlets reporting on the matter and while we don't favor one news outlet over another, here is one that describes the incident: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/stampede

We want to share our appreciation for the Kibera News Network for having stopped by the project to peer in to see what we were doing. Reporter Joshua was able to see our Maridadi Skill Teachers making masks where they were chalk marking the pattern, cutting, pinning and sewing! In addition, they also got to meet our Girls Empowerment Teacher and Coordinator, Miss Michelle, who was waiting on the next Scholar or Girls Empowerment participant (or their parent) to arrive for the

The Angaza Project would like to thank the many friends who have stepped in and joined our work in Kenya. Due to COVID-19, our services are postponed because of the calls for social distancing and requests of the KE MOH and larger Government. We already miss our Girls Empowerment every Saturday, the women's empowerment with Teacher Fay, and our Maridadi Skills classes with Teachers George and Bernard. In our weekly phone calls to all of our participants to check in and stay c

As you may know, our Maridadi Skills class has been working on beading and then sewing them into the flip flops with Teacher George. Our Founder has known George for almost 8 years now and with his talent and skills in sewing and shoe making, he became the teacher for Maridadi Skills in 2018. Since then, Teacher George, of George's Sandals in Kibera, has been teaching beading and sewing skills to the ladies in the community so they can work on their own using their new skills

Pamoja, we must be! Pamoja is a Kiswahili word for united and we are grateful to be connected with so many other NGO's, CBO's and/or organizations in Kenya and now around East Africa. We became a member of the Pamoja Circle a few weeks ago which is a circle of NGO's, CBO's, organizations, and local businesses that we all connect with for our organizational work in Kenya specifically, but this morning we joined an even larger network of organizations upon the invitation of the