Alfred Gitau Mwaura
Founder, The East African Open Skills University
One clear reason to train marginalized youth and women:
👉 Skills create dignity, income, and opportunity.
By equipping young people and women with practical, market-relevant skills, we unlock real access to today’s livelihood economy—where employers value hands-on competence, adaptability, and certified skills over theory alone.
The impact is direct and measurable:
- 🌍 Relevance: Skills aligned to today’s jobs market and self-employment pathways
- 💼 Employability: Faster entry into work, entrepreneurship, and global gigs
- 👩🏽🔧 Equity: Women and marginalized youth gain economic independence
- 🔁 Sustainability: Communities grow when skills stay local and circulate value
Train skills. Create jobs. Transform lives.
This is how education becomes opportunity—now, not someday.