Empowering Kawangware Youth
Handcrafted bags, cards, and apparel for businesses.
Cyber Cafe
Other Activities

Handcrafted bags, cards, and apparel for businesses.
Cyber Cafe
Other Activities

Kawangware Vision Centre was started by Morris and Agasto in 2001 to create and open up positive life opportunities for orphans, vulnerable children and at risk youth in the community. The project then as Kawangware Street Children & Youth Project (a community based organization), started making handmade and designed paper bags out of recycled papers which they sold to tourist and safari companies and the income earned was used to improve their lives as well as maintain their business.
Today Kawangware Street Children and Youth Project is registered as a local NGO: Kawangware Vision Centre, to go in tandem with its expanding scope of activities and goals. Its main objective is to reclaim orphans’ and vulnerable children basic rights, and opening and creating economic empowerment for the at risk youths.
The main activity of the centre is a micro business in which the youth (both girls and boys) hand-make and design, silkscreened eco-friendly gift bags, greeting cards, gift-wraps and T-shirts silk-screen printing. These items are sold to businesses and safari companies and the proceeds realized are used and shared among the youth participants; used to uplift their life as well as those of the children, and to maintain the project.
The paper business also outsources supply of paper bags handles, hand-woven from banana leaves to a group of single mothers who in turn earns their daily livelihoods.
Other activities include:
The main economic activity is making custom silkscreened gift bags, gift-wraps and cards out of recycled paper for sale to safari companies, tourist shops and corporate clients. The profits generated supplement the cost of their basic needs of food, medical care, and education while partially funding their shelter and general care.
This micro-enterprise provides employment, HIV/AIDS prevention education and life skills training to local youth. The Kawangware project is one-of-a-kind; assisting orphans, vulnerable kids and at risk youth by helping them gain education, as well as acquire skills which allow them to earn a living. The handles for the bags are outsourced to young single mothers within the community who weave them from dried banana fiber.
In addition, profits also fund youth programs run by KVC that provide positive opportunities for marginalized youth and orphans. At the moment, the micro-business employs more than 50 youth and about 30 single mothers and has directly and indirectly helped more than 1000 vulnerable children and youth living in Kawangware slum. The demand for the products is steadily increasing but the lack of space is prohibiting an increase in production.
They also screen print T-shirts as well as caps,curtains, sheets, table clothes etc.
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P.O. BOX 35497-00200 Nairobi, Kenya
+254 721 761 107 +254 733 926 929 e-mail: africabags@yahoo.com P.O. BOX 35497-00200 Nairobi, Kenya

Main Goals of Cyber Cafe
Who Administers the Cyber?
The cyber is administered by Simon Muriithi and Martha Wanjiru as the receptionist.
Opening and Closing Time
Our opening time is always at 7:30am and the closing time is 7:30pm but only on weekdays.
On weekend we always open at 8:30am and closing time is at 7:00pm
On public holidays we open from 8:00am to 1:00pm.
