While the term “gap year students” usually implies taking a year off to recharge, our hardworking students, getting poised for their first year of university, like to keep themselves busy. Already this year, they completed computer courses and, at numerous schools, performed plays educating the Likoni youth on HIV.
Despite all of that, they decided to turn their heads to yet another project: small business management! To learn about small business skills, they embarked on a variety of projects such as the farming and selling of vegetables, making detergent soaps and decorative beads, whipping up yoghurt, and crafting tie and dye.
Winnie Muthina, their mentoring and career guidance coordinator, commented on the program of the gap year students: “We try to help children know that education is a necessity for a successful business, and learning new skills anytime can be of great assistance to them.”
Additionally, Hatua Likoni employs five
of these gap year students as office and library assistants.
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