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empowering





          Kenyan






          Youth






          through






          Literacy





          and






          Numeracy













          Path Youth, a Kenyan CBO, founded

          by passionate youth, supports
          children and adolescents, providing                                                                                    Quality education is a social pillar and a priority   let circumstances dictate our futures, as it does for
                                                                                                                                                                                      many others, we decided to take control of our own
                                                                                                                                 sector in Kenya’s vision for 2030. Despite the literacy
          essential knowledge for a sustainable,                                                                                 levels standing at 87.5%, quality education is still   education. Together with friends living in Likoni, Kenya,
          empowered future                                                                                                       unheard of. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated        we founded Path Youth in 2019, a Community Based
                                                                                                                                 learning inequalities among marginalized children.   Organization (CBO) operating in Mombasa County,
                                                                                                                                 As young people, we felt the need to be at the       Kenya, with the long-term goal of expanding its work
                                                                                                                                 forefront of championing Foundational Numeracy and   into the greater coastal region to transform the lives
          - By Salim Mazang’ang’a and Fridah Okomo
                                                                                                                                 Learning Skills for marginalized children. Refusing to   of other eager learners. Since then, Path Youth has


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