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On October 27th, every staff member of the Xavier Project from the Naoirbi office will particpate in the Nairobi Marathon. We hope to raise awareness of the work which we perform and also to raise money for two of our current projects which include the educuational development of refugee children in the city as well as the training of many of their parents by providing them with professional skills in an effort to assist them them find employment. 

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the work undertaken by the Xavier Project, please read the below account of some of our activties. 

Xavier Project’s primary goal is to offer an individualised education for urban refugees in Nairobi and Kampala so that they can reach their full potential. We provide sponsorship for refugee children to study at government schools and in the holidays we organise extra-curricular activities so that they can explore the talents that might not be revealed in their formal education. This includes sports activities and music coaching and extends to activities such as community service and social media courses. In the long term we hope to educate men and women for others who can use their education to make their own world a better place.

We have opened a livelihoods programme for the parents of these children so that in the long run they will be able to pay their own school fees. Many of the parents are skilled and well qualified but they lack the capital to start their own business and struggle to find employment because of cultural barriers. 

 

Tamuka is the media programme of Xavier Project designed to give refugees a voice so that they can speak out about the realities of their lives in order to effect positive improvements. Tamuka is a three phase programme which enables refugees to publish, learn from and interact with unbiased information anonymously and without access to the internet. The first phase included an awareness programme designed to educate refugees about social media opportunities that already exist and to improve local infrastructure to give them better access to the internet. To facilitate communication, the second phase is an SMS-website platform: refugees and anyone else will be able to send an SMS anonymously and for free to a memorable number which will immediately be uploaded to Twitter (see twitter widget on the right). In the third phase other forms of media such as radio programmes and magazines are being launched launched to interact with the material coming into the Tamuka platform.

Should you require any more information, please check out out website at www.xavierproject.org

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