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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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