About Us
Learning For Life
At Elimu, we are co-creating a learning community where self-directed learners use digital technology to achieve their goals and build better futures.
Vision
Kenyan children and their families are empowered with the confidence, skills and self-awareness to help break the cycle of poverty, instil independence, and build thriving, prosperous communities.
Vision
Kenyan children and their families are empowered with the confidence, skills and self-awareness to help break the cycle of poverty, instil independence, and build thriving, prosperous communities.
Mission
To provide Kenyan communities access to the education, skills and support they need to realize their full potential.
Mission
To provide Kenyan communities access to the education, skills and support they need to realize their full potential.
Our Why
We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to receive a quality education, and we are committed to creating a world where they can thrive regardless of their geographical location or socio-economic background.
Elimu Values
Collaboration
We believe that by working together-each team member sharing their gifts--we can do something wonderful to achieve our common purpose.
Co-creation
We welcome diversity into our innovation process to find the best working solutions that gel with the needs of the community.
Interdependence
We are all called to become our best selves while ensuring those around us, even those we’ll never meet, get a chance at becoming better too.
Passion with dedication
We are guided by the desire to do amazing things and the discipline to realize our goals.
Faith-inspired
Everything we do at Elimu is grounded in Christian principles, and has evolved out of the lived Christian faith of our founder.
Our Work
Our first focus is children at risk and vulnerable girls from rural communities. Through sponsorships and mentorship, we work to enhance school retention, academic performance, and entrepreneurship experience.
Listening to the children in our programs, we introduced digital technology to increase access to educational resources. We offer hands-on learning opportunities, such as volunteering, and community-based activities like tree planting.
We also work to guide youth towards self-sustainability after high school through career planning and entrepreneurship. Digital literacy training is an important key to preparing them for the technology-based work world of the future – and for improving their futures.
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Children, Youth, Women Served By Our Projects
Student visits in 2019 Elimu Resource Centre
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Children Kept in School Stay in School Project
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Women Entrepreneurs Sewing Project
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Youth Gained Tech Skills Cisco NetAcad
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Meet Our Founder
Nina Chung – Founder and President
Her vision had sufficient relevance to motivate Kenyans locally and supporters from miles away. It all began with a small gesture—taking two young boys to kindergarten. The rest has developed organically, in phases, led by the needs she and her team identified at each step.
Born in Guyana (South America) Elimu founder, Nina Chung also has roots that mesh with the Kenyan essence. Her great-grandmother came from Africa to Guyana as a slave. Nina grew up and settled in Ottawa, Canada. Today she divides her time between Kenya and Canada overseeing operations in Kenya and managing volunteers in Canada.
She’s still hands-on with children who call her Mum. Many are adults now in colleges, or already graduated. She even has a few children who call her “Nyanya” (Swahili for grandmother).
About Elimu
Elimu empowers learners to increase academic and digital literacy, improve school retention and encourage self-sustainability through employment planning and entrepreneurship.
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Elimu is the official trade name of Elimu Development Projects, a registered Canadian charity. BN 828374314.