News & Events

Monday, 23rd April, 2018

safaricom Exhibition

Girls visited the safaricom exhibition which was organised by safaricom to showcase their work.

Monday, 23rd April, 2018

Learning to Crotchet

The girls had a special visitor Leoni from Australia who came to teach the girls to crotchet.Some of the girls had never used a crochet hook.Now they have a skill for ever.Its a spark of hope for them.

Monday, 19th March, 2018

REIKI

Lotus Healing Seva Group (Kenya) held two camps at the same time on 4^th July 2018!

As we have been doing for the past 6 years, we held our annual Reiki training camps for the girls of the Hawkers Market Girls Centre. Six girls completed Reiki 2 with Mamta Advani and three girls completed Reiki 1 with Anuradha Nath.

All the girls showed focus and commitment to share their gift of healing with the patients of Faraja Cancer Support Centre every week.

Friday, 16th March, 2018

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY

It was celebtarate at Crowne plaza.The THEME of this year was #Connect.

We need to connect more especially with people who need your help no matter how busy your schedule is you can lend a hand.

Friday, 16th March, 2018

VISIT BY YESS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Yess program is a Youth Exchange South to South program in which Girl guides visit a different country to learn about their culture and exchange with other youth in matters to do with Diversity and pluralism.

the girls were lucky to share with girls from Nepal,Madagascar,Burundi and Tanzania.

Saturday, 3rd March, 2018

THINKNG DAY

Theme of this year's Thinking Day was #IMPACT. The girls participated in the ceremony at All Sants Cathedral.

This started by learning how to make their uniforms. For the first time they belonged to KGGA and 10 million around the world.

Friday, 5th January, 2018

Christmas party year 2017

The girls  celebrated x-mas party at the centre with Mrs Keshavjee.

Thank you dear Nasreen for the delicious pillau and raita.
We accompanied it with samosas and finished off with tea biscuits and popcorn.
Then to our utter surprise a Black Forest cake landed on our table.

Saturday, 30th December, 2017

AYM FORUM

3 Girls from the centre had the opportunity to participate in the Africa Youth Movement forum which was held in the month of March at USIU.The main Agenda for the forum was on SDGs and Agenda 2063.

Saturday, 30th December, 2017

Christmas Gift bags

The learn and Earn program got a boost this year after it got an order for making Christmas gift bags for Fuji plaza.

Friday, 10th March, 2017

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY AWARD

This years International women's day saw the founder of Hawkers Market Girls Centre  Mrs.Shariffa Keshavjee  being honoured among other remarkable women at the Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi.The award was to celebrate the many success and achievements of women who have done extremely well and their contributions in the society.

Mrs Shariffa Keshavjee received an award for women empowerment and it was presented by the Turkish Ambassodor.

She dedicated the Award to all the girls  at the centre because without them she could not have made an impact in their lives.