The Mother Goose Kenya is a contractual partner of The Ajiri Dada project by AMURT. The was to train girls and young women from Nairobi’s slums and place them with employers. Mother Goose Kenya helps development NGOs meet their project objectives in Kenya.
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is an international NGO founded in India in 1965. The organizations original objective was to assist populations affected by disasters in India. This objective was expanded in 1995 to encompass human development. Including Kenya, AMURT is present in 35 countries around the world. The organization has operated in Kenya since 1993 and currently runs over nine projects all over the country. AMURT has helped millions of vulnerable people break the cycle of poverty and live a higher quality of life.
Ajiri Dada
In 2015, AMURT obtained funding to implement a project known as Ajiri Dada (Employ a girl). Ajiri Dada is an ambitious project to train 2,000 girls and young women (GYW) aged 19 to 24 years from informal settlements of Nairobi on domestic work, hospitality, cleaning, office work and other related sectors. Following the training, the girls and young women were to be placed in employment. The objective of this project is to nurture and harness girls’ skills for health and economic empowerment. The dual intended outcomes are economic empowerment and a decrease in the instance of transactional sex in Nairobi’s informal settlements. Ajiri Dada is being implemented in Nairobi County under the DREAMS Innovation Challenge. The DREAMS Innovation Challenge (DREAMS-IC) is an initiative aimed at reducing the incidence of HIV infections in Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) living in sub-Saharan African countries through the implementation of innovative solutions.
The Mother Goose Kenya was engaged as a contractual partner to implement part of the project. We were contracted to train 2000 girls and place them with employers.
For more information on how the training, graduation and placement was done, please click on the links below;