Success Stories – Kenya Youth Business Trust Pwani

OUR IMPACT

KYBT supports new business start-ups, and provides young people with personal development opportunities, through business training, seed capital and mentorship support. The program provides aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs with invaluable resources and experience to help them hone key entrepreneurial and business skills related to creativity, communication, leadership and team-building.

This not only fosters entrepreneurship but, more importantly, positive and inspirational leadership in the local community. Through this, KYBT helps realize the dreams of disadvantaged youth who in turn contribute to their families and communities.

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Ramadhan Juma

Ramadhan Juma grew up in the rough neighborhood of Magongo where many boys shun education at an early age to later graduate in life as criminals. However there are many who failed to advance academically owing to their poor family backgrounds. Ramadhan fell in this category and although he was

Ibrahim Bwajuma

Ibrahim Bwajuma always thought he would always live with tag of the wretched of the earth having been brought in Mombasa’s sprawling estate of Changamwe where life is struggle for the fittest.Here he grew up not knowing where the next meal would come from and he was destined for crime

Ali Wambogo

For a former hawker who was doing so badly that he almost owed almost every hawker in his street Of operation, life was only getting unfair. To escape from the high number of creditors baying for his Blood, Ali Wambogo began plotting to relocate from Mombasa to a far flung

Ali Himid

Idle mind is an evil mind. Living in Kisauni area, where many young youth end up abusing drug, is an order of the day, as he recalls. His close friends have approached him many a times to join them in the using of illicit drugs. He opted to follow the

Abdi Musa Mzee

Indeed Musa’s journey towards attaining his ever elusive quest of earning money began when he paid a visit to the KYBT centre and shared with the team his life experiences and the misery he had gone through in the search of money which would surely define his life. “At the

NURU SAID ABEID

When a cross-section of African women and particularly those from Kenya get divorced, they tend to lose hope in life. As a result many especially those without a particular ounce of income succumb To depression of bringing up children single handed. However, there are Exceptions. There are bold and brave

Kassim Mohammed Omar

When Kassim Mohammed was informed about the Kenya Youth Business Trust (KYBT) by an uncle He was at first apprehensive. He had heard numerous stories about the infamous pyramid schemes that conned thousands of Kenyans their hard earned savings and he had grown wary of financial Institutions offering loans including

Mwaka Abdalla

Mwaka Abdalla, who is 30 years old now, grew up in Likoni in a family of 8 children and a single mother. Her mother was a nursery school teacher and struggled to take her children to school. Mwaka studied until high school but was unable to continue to college to

Mohammad Ali Athman

Mohammad Ali Athman (27) grew up in Old town in a family of 4 siblings. His mother was a tailor while his father is a light transporter. Mohammad studied to form four level before his father became very ill and he had to take over his father’s business for he

Antony Kalume Mulewa.

Having being raised by a single mother, Anthony Kalume of 25 years, always dreamt of being his own boss and be self employed. His biggest inspiration was his mother who raised all her 7 children single handedly without depending on anyone. She too, is a business woman who keeps trying

Abdi Mohammed

Since his childhood, Abdi Mohammed (29), wanted to be a business man. He grew up in Kawangware and studied to college level where he studied sales. His mother was a supervisor in the city council of Nairobi while his father was a livestock seller. After completion of his course, he

Salim Rashid

A successful photographer and videographer, Salim Rashid (28), grew up in a well established family of 11 children in Kisauni area. His father was a business man while his mum is a house wife. His childhood dream was to be a soldier and he was able to study military science

Fatma Ahmed Karama

Fatma Ahmed Karama, 30, learnt how to do business at a very early age. While her step mother sold food stuff like potatoes and bajia, she too got involved in the selling. Her father was an employee at sonara budha since then. She studied until form three whereby she dropped

Ifrah Abokar Ali

Ifrah Abokar Ali, 32, is a living example of the word determination. Having grown up from a humble family of 11 children, she had to drop out of school at class four together with her other two siblings so as to give the chances to their younger siblings. Ever since

Omar Mwalim Ali

Coming from a jobless family of 3 children, Omar Mwalim Ali who is currently 24, decided at a very early age to be independent. When he was just in class six, he dropped out of school due to the family’s poverty. He grew up in Bakarani before he decided to

Elizabeth Kahindi

Elizabeth Zawadi Kahindi, 31, spent her childhood in Kaloleni area where she studied to form two before dropping out due to lack of fees. She came from a humble family who were farmers. Her childhood dream has always been to be a nurse, and still is, as she hopes that

Mulhat Abdallah

Mulhat Abdallah, from Lamu, always had a dream to be a clinical officer. Having being raised by a single mother and grandparents, she wanted to work hard and be able to help her younger siblings. Her grandparents did fishery while her mother was just a house wife who later on