Jenga is a community-based young women led organization in rural Teso, Western Kenya, strategically located in Malaba, a bustling border town between Kenya and Uganda in East Africa. At Jenga, we are dedicated to empowering youth, women, and girls through collaborative community initiatives.
Our organization is driven by a passionate team of volunteers committed to fostering sustainable development and creating positive change. Together, we strive to build a stronger future by providing safe spaces and meaningful opportunities for growth and empowerment.
Through innovative programs and grassroots efforts, we aim to uplift and inspire our community, ensuring that everyone has the support and resources they need to thrive.
To empower youth, women and girls to gain access to skills, information and opportunities for their growth and development.
Empowering communities through the creation of safe and inclusive spaces for youth, women and girls.
Community, Volunteerism, Creativity and Innovation, Meaningful engagement and leadership of youth and women.
Our work is anchored on the need to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment, which has exposed the women, girls and young people to different forms of exploitation like gender-based violence, sexual manipulation, child marriage, violent extremism, transactional sex, and crime, resulting in a socio- economically deteriorated community whose people lack sustainable income. This has limited the communityʼs ability to access healthcare, skilled education, information, and opportunities required to generate sustainable income. Despite being based in Busia County which is the third poorest county in Kenya and ranks so highly in youth unemployment, Jenga Afrihub has creatively and successfully designed and implemented programs on youth and women empowerment particularly focusing on skills-building an entrepreneurship with technology as an enabler. Set at a busy migratory intersection between Kenya and Uganda, and at a destination and transit route for rural migration.
Jenga Afrihub has created a niche for itself, devising programs that respond to both systemic and individual challenges. The Border Hub has convened a space and a platform for conversations about gender, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, meaningful youth engagement, employment opportunities, cross-border trade targeting rights holders and power holders of different forms of sexual exploitation.