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Talitha CumiGIRLS IN RURAL KENYAArise, Actualize, Apply

PARTNERSHIP BRIEF
Proposed program model

HER CURIOSITY. HER CAPABILITY. HER FUTURE.

Equip her to innovate.
Empower her to lead.

A high-impact year of hands-on STEAM and leadership development for emerging leaders in rural Kenya—turning curiosity into practical skills and bold ideas into real-world solutions.

OUR MISSION

To educate, equip, empower, and launch future female leaders throughout Kenya and around the globe.

01 / ARISEMonths 1–4

Belong, ask, explore, and build foundations.

02 / ACTUALIZEMonths 5–8

Practice, measure, create, and improve.

03 / APPLYMonths 9–12

Invent, demonstrate, reflect, and share.

Five disciplines. Connected learning.

  • Science · An urban rooftop herbal garden, plant biology, environmental data, and age-appropriate growing pathways.
  • Technology · Practical restoration, coding, robotics, LEGO challenges, and a required year-end invention.
  • Engineering · Irrigation, rover, and solar-design prototypes that learners build, test, and refine.
  • HER-forming Art · Ballet and contemporary dance, scripts, history, lighting, visuals, and performance.
  • Mathematics · Grade 5 and Grade 8 project pathways with measurable challenges and planned global educator support.

Leadership throughout.

Facilitated labs, mentor circles, guided projects, and a community showcase help girls practice collaboration, communication, and thoughtful problem-solving.

Learning we intend to make visible.

Digital confidence. Practical problem-solving. Voice and agency. Community application.

Planned evidence includes baseline observations, midpoint portfolios, and year-end demonstrations. Rubrics and targets will be agreed before delivery; no achieved impact is claimed.

Where a partner could contribute.

Educator time, locally informed delivery, devices and tools, creative and garden materials, access supports, or development of a costed pilot and future-study opportunities.

A first pilot being shaped.

County, venue, cohort size, admission ages, start date, local delivery partners, implementing arrangements, and the approved budget remain to be finalized. The online budget explorer uses illustrative assumptions, not a confirmed funding request or secured support.