Urban & organic farming
Hands-on training in organic urban farming, IMO (Indigenous Micro-Organisms) and demonstration gardens — turning ghetto plots into food and income.
What we do
Skills you can hold in your hands.
Six programme areas, one method — hands-on training that turns vulnerability into a livelihood.
Programme areas
Every programme is designed to be taught once and used for a lifetime.
Climate & green skilling
Equipping the most vulnerable slum women and youths with knowledge and climate-resilient skills, including charcoal briquette making from organic waste.
Water, sanitation & health
Public toilets, clean-up exercises with KCCA, and health outreach that tackle poor drainage and water-borne disease at the source.
Girls’ education & dignity
Reusable sanitary pad training so no girl misses school — plus Passport To Success life-skills for pupils and students.
School gardens
Supporting pupils and students to set up their own school gardens, with research posters and hands-on growing skills.
Gender & social inclusion
GESI-trained leadership ensures gender is built into every programme we run, not bolted on afterward.
Our method
Train the trainer, then get out of the way.
Every OBOIVU programme is built around a demonstration site — a garden bed, a toilet block, a classroom — where the first cohort learns by doing, then goes on to teach the next. It is slower than a one-off workshop, and it is why the skills last.
Network of Young Advocates Program handover