All Mentoring Stories
Hamisi Juma Giving Back to Hatua High School Students

Hamisi Juma Giving Back to Hatua High School Students

October 19, 2020

We found Hamisi Juma in the thick of tutoring Gideon, Winnie, Alfred, Grace, Angela, and Samuel on how to calculate the surface area of solids, a form 2 Math topic. The session was so engaging and I remember having a brief bittersweet déjà vu. When Hamisi, a Marine Business Management 2nd year student at Moi […]

Keeping Hatua’s Gap Year Students Engaged during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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 […]

Hatua Professional Mentorship, Meet Ahmed Maawy

Hatua Professional Mentorship, Meet Ahmed Maawy

August 6, 2018

Is there someone in your life who you look up to and who helped guide you through your first steps in your career? Do you want to become that person for someone else and make a difference in their life? Today we introduce you to Mohammed Maawy, one of Hatua’s valued mentors; here is an […]

Big Success for Hatua Likoni’s April Mentoring and Career Week

Big Success for Hatua Likoni’s April Mentoring and Career Week

May 2, 2018

Whom do you owe your success to? In everyday life, each human looks up to someone, either for guidance, motivation or emotional support. In order to achieve success through education, students ought to not only rely on individual effort but support from an experienced professional mentor/coach as well. Hatua Likoni tries to act as a […]

A New Take on Peer Education

A New Take on Peer Education

June 27, 2017

We are pleased to report on having successful Peer Education & Mentoring sessions which took place from April 18th to April 28th. During this time we were able to check up on our secondary student’s academic performances and offer aid where needed through the tuition program that EdVillage is generously helping to support. Additionally, our students received much guidance […]

Promoting Peace

Promoting Peace

September 30, 2016

Violent extremist groups tend to target poorer communities owing to their high unemployment rates and lack of education. In Likoni, unemployment rates are relatively high and even more so among youth. Likewise, within Likoni very few youth make a smooth transition from primary school to secondary school (if at all), so that makes this town […]

Hatua’s First Career Panel Discussion

Hatua’s First Career Panel Discussion

May 6, 2014

Some people know from a very young age what they want to be when they grow up, while others even as young adults still don’t know what they want to do. Here in Kenya, one has to decide or at least narrow the field down as a teenager. Kenyan students get to choose which science […]

Hatua Students Learn about Anger Management During Sunday Mentoring Sessions

Hatua Students Learn about Anger Management During Sunday Mentoring Sessions

September 20, 2013

Every Sunday, Hatua students in day school attend mentoring classes. Classes cover topics such as personal decision making, career choices, and civic engagement. Through these classes, students learn how to be responsible citizens. On 15th August during an interactive session, the students learned about the concept of anger management. According to their career and mentoring […]

August Holiday Could Not Have Been Better for Hatua Students!

August Holiday Could Not Have Been Better for Hatua Students!

September 3, 2013

Hatua students from Form One to Form Three enjoyed great mentoring sessions during the August holiday. Form One students received mentoring on financial literacy from Save the Children and Post Bank. They were taught about the importance of saving, budgeting, and proper management of their finances. “After their training, we helped them open smart accounts […]