All Hatua Stories
Derick Omondi’s Family Home Visit
October 19, 2020
Meet Derick Omondi, a Hatua high school beneficiary whose family is among those that have benefitted from Hatua’s Nutritional Support Program. Derick is currently in Form 3 at Lenana High School, he has three siblings but is the only child currently staying with her mother in Likoni. It is so touching to still see these […]
Keeping Hatua’s Gap Year Students Engaged during the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 28, 2020
As our secondary school graduates await to join college, Hatua, during their gap year offers a peer mentoring program designed to engage and nurture our secondary school graduates with hands-on leadership and soft skills development opportunities. But to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the department readjusted its training and is now using the Google […]
We are recruiting 4 Library Fellows
January 14, 2020
Hatua is recruiting 4 Library Fellows for a period of 1 year! This is a paid opportunity open to form 4 or Diploma graduates who will join our library team and make the best of themselves while serving the community. One fellow will be based in one of our Mvita satellite libraries while the other […]
Hatua Re-opens Likoni Community Library at Ushindi Baptist
November 21, 2019
Hatua Network on the 16th of November held its 13th Annual General Meeting at the Ushindi Baptist in Likoni, marking 13 amazing years of offering scholarships, mentoring, career guidance and professional networks links to academically promising and high need students in Mombasa, Kenya. We kicked off the day with the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Ushindi Baptist […]
Proactive Hatua Alumni Impressive performance opens doors for fellow graduate
October 8, 2019
On receiving the calling letter to join Moi University to pursue a Bachelors’s Degree in Economics, Hatua pioneer alumnus Victor Mwandima Kasololo found himself at a crossroads. “I was sure my parents were not in a good financial position so I had to think out of the box”, narrates Victor. “There were many challenges for […]
Hatua Alumni Excelling at Equity Bank
September 20, 2019
Hatua Network’s mission is to promote equal opportunity in Kenya by providing promising, low-income students with scholarships, mentoring and career guidance that prepare them to join professional careers and serve as a link between their community and professional networks. The majority of the first students enrolled in our program have completed their undergraduate degree and […]
Library assistants break own record!
August 13, 2019
Each year the community in Likoni get to benefit from voluntary services from our exceptionally excelling gap year students as they wait to join the university. The team of gap year students volunteering in our library, commit their time not only to serve the students but also help them whenever they’re stuck! Students especially […]
Co-founder and Programs Director Peter Kwame Selected as 2019 Obama Foundation Scholar
June 19, 2019
We are thrilled to announce that Hatua Network Cofounder and Programs Director Peter Kwame, has been selected as one of the 2019 Obama Foundation Scholars. Kwame will be joining 32 rising leaders from around the world who will study at the University of Chicago and Columbia University for the 2019-2020 academic year. The program’s aim is to […]
June 13, 2019
This past week at Hatua Network we were happy to host one of our biggest donors to our community libraries in Likoni and Mvita. The American Friends of Kenya are one of the donors that have seen Hatua grow over the years. After 13 years of offering library services to our community in Likoni Hatua […]
Hatua Secondary Academic Trips
May 11, 2019
Nothing triggers the anxiety of a student like the announcement a trip to some place they’ve never been. I have no doubt this moment has always been an exciting one for many of us back in the days. The trips are not just ones that dominate every conversation but also give students time away from […]