Turning Point Trust Blog
Literally literacy: update 2
The Turning Point adult literacy class have been running for 3 weeks now and after a rather chaotic start, they have settled into some vague routine. We have about 14 regular members attending English and numeracy classes on a Monday and we’ve divided the group into a higher and lower class, one run by myself [...]
Continue Reading >Sounds from Creativity Classrom
If you walked past the creativity classroom on Wednesday afternoon you would’ve heard chants of a – e – I – o – u, ba – be – bi – bo – bu followed by much laughter as the microfinance literacy students realised how ridiculous they must sound to passersby. Wednesday’s classes couldn’t have been [...]
Continue Reading >Literally Literacy
Last week we ‘enrolled’ 28 microfinance members and quickly realised the need to divide the group into 3 levels: lower Swahili, higher Swahili and English, with numeracy being taught in each group. Yesterday classes began with English lessons, higher-level Swahili literacy and numeracy classes. It was a hectic beginning. Actually no. It was the opposite [...]
Continue Reading >Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo #1
Around 200 TPFP members gathered on Monday for the first Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo to learn about innovative products they could add to their businesses.
Continue Reading >Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo
On 7th November 2011, we are inviting Social Entrepreneurs to the first Kibera Jenga Biashara Expo. The idea of the event is to bring together Social Enterprises looking to sell their products in Kibera and micro-entrepreneurs running businesses within Kibera, namely the Turning Point Finance Programme members. Our risk-averse members have naturally tended towards selling products [...]
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