De laatste 5 Kikoi’s! Grijp je kans! December 7, 2009

Enthousiast zijn ze onthaald; de kikoi’s en de kettingen! Er zijn er nog maar 5, dus wees er snel bij!

Koop nu een kikoi  voor maar 10 euro! (OP=OP)

Kikoa creating concepts December 7, 2009

The second phase was hard working, generating creative and fantastic ideas! Out of the ideas, some concepts were created. In the picture above you can see simple models of the concepts. One of these days the report will bepublished. Check phase 2) Conceptualization.

Kikoa@work November 16, 2009

Until January Kikoa will be working at a studio@ TU Delft. With the input of the first phase, brainstorms are done to come up with ideas. These ideas will be developed to concepts and the most promising concept will be chosen at the end of the 2nd phase (end of November).

Kikoa back in The Netherlands November 2, 2009

After inspiring research in Kenya, Kikoa returned to The Netherlands to continue the project. The first phase  (goal setting) was finished and presented to Better Future and the TU Delft tutors. The results were  well received. The results gave a good direction for the second phase (conceptualization). See phase 1) Goal setting  for the results of the first phase.

Shop & Support! November 2, 2009

Het is koud buiten, maar ook de feestdagen staan voor de deur! Maak jezelf, je vriendin, je moeder, je tante blij!
 
Koop nu een kikoi (keniaanse sjaal/omslag doek) voor maar 10 euro of een ketting voor 5 euro!

Zoals je kan lezen op dit blog, is de mobiele academie een ontwikkelingsproject en is er eigenlijk geen budget. Om meer te kunnen bereiken binnen het project (denk aan onderzoekskosten, materiaalkosten, prototypes) zijn we afhankelijk van sponsoren. Door een mooie kikoi of ketting te kopen, kan je het project sponsoren!
 
Bemachtig een mooie kikoi of ketting en geef Kenianen de kans om zich op een hoger niveau te tillen met behulp van een mobiele academie!

Bestel nu door een mail te sturen naar:  kikoaproject(at)gmail.com!

9) Kikoa @ Tiwi beach October 9, 2009

After a lot of sessions, visits, interviews and more, we took a 2 day break to enjoy the beach in Kenya. We stayed in a cottage south of Mombasa. It looked like a paradise; white beaches, palm trees, blue water….it was a dream!

 

8) Kikoa in Shariani October 9, 2009

Tuesday 6th of October we visited a project named “Little shining stars pre-primary school”. The school is combined with a sewing workshop. In the sewing workshop there are 10 women who are making bags and clothes (school uniforms, dresses, etc). The extra income of the sewing workshop supports the school.

In Kenya it is obligatory to attend pre-primary school before you are admitted to primary school. Pre-primary school is focussed on 3-4 years old to teach them writing and reading.

We interviewed the initiator of the project which gave us a good insight in starting up a project like this and a view on entrepreneurship. We walked through Shariani to get a view of the other entrepreneurs in the small town.

7) Transport in Kenya October 5, 2009

 

 

 

 

6) Kikoa in Akwakra October 5, 2009

During the weekend (3-4 October) two students took us to their villages (Akwakra) around Kisumu. We travelled by bus on Friday to Kisumu, and continued our trip the next day with a matatu and taxi to get there (a real adventure!). We received a warm welcome of the family of our friends. Then we visited a secondary school where some teachers and students were gathered to help us out. We devided the group in two, to do the session. One was taken to get a better view over their wishes and their view on the practical aspects of the mobile academy. With the other group we talked about their future perspectives and what they needed to reach their goals.

After a lovely late lunch with the family of our friends, we traveled back to Kisumu (taxi, matatu and tuctuc; see the next post about the transport facilities we used in Kenya!). After visiting a church on Sunday we went to a small beach 3km outside Kisumu. An in-depth session with our friends (two students from the Kenyan Polytechnic University College Nairobi) was executed. After a small boat trip over Lake Victoria, we took the night train back to Nairobi again.

 

5) Kikoa in Bulbul October 5, 2009

Thursday October the 1st we went to Bulbul a small place just outside Nairobi. A contact of us has an orphanage and a primary school there. Some of the children who lived at the orphanage have become young (and succesful) entrepreneurs. We had a session with them to get an insight in their lives and to get their view on the image of the mobile academy.

We also visited the primary school that is connected to this orphanage. The school is a more private school, what practically means that there are not 70 to 80 children in one class but a maximum of 20! The head master showed us the school and he told us about the school system in Nairobi.