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AgeWatch Futures · Registered social enterprise since 2019 · Active across Kenya
Hands-on agribusiness training — poultry, sack gardens, soap batches, and market planning — so refugee youth and women earn income with dignity across Kenya's refugee-hosting communities. Part of AgeWatch Africa's nationwide continuum of care and livelihoods.
A story from Kakuma
When Amina arrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp from South Sudan, she had her children and very little else. The food rations were rarely enough. A neighbour told her about the AgeWatch Futures agribusiness cohort — she signed up expecting a short seminar. What she found was a twelve-week programme that taught her soil nutrition, water management, pest control, and how to price and sell her produce at the Kalobeyei market.
By week eight she had harvested her first kale crop. By week twelve she was informally coaching three other women in her block. Today, her kitchen-garden income covers school shoes, soap, and two extra meals a week for her children.
Before this I waited for a distribution. Now I am the one who provides. My children watch me work — that matters more than the vegetables.
Programme tracks
Every trainee graduates with practical skills and starter inputs — not slogans, but ledgers, seeds, and the confidence to author tomorrow.
Track 01
No land required. Trainees learn to fill, layer, water, and harvest vertical sack gardens in the footprint of a doorstep — growing kale, spinach, and tomatoes that feed a family and sell the surplus at the weekly market.
Track 02
From chick brooding to disease prevention, trainees receive starter pullets, feed, and a feed-cost calculator — turning a corner of a compound into a reliable egg-and-meat income stream.
Track 03
Household hygiene products are always in demand. Trainees master formulation, safety, branding, and bulk-order pricing — launching micro-enterprises that serve the camp and surrounding host markets.
Track 04 — Market linkage & small-business planning
All tracks include a dedicated market-skills module: basic bookkeeping, pricing for profit, trader negotiation, and connecting to the Kalobeyei weekly market — because a harvest unsold is a harvest wasted.
How it works
Participants are referred through community scouts, Village Savings groups, or walk-ins. No prior farming experience or literacy is required — only the commitment to attend.
Eight weeks of practical sessions in the chosen track — mornings at the demonstration garden or production station, afternoons on theory and record-keeping in a simple workbook.
Graduates receive a starter kit matched to their track: sacks and seeds, starter pullets and feed, or a soap-production batch kit — so the learning translates to doing immediately.
Facilitators escort first-time sellers to market, help set fair prices, and schedule monthly check-ins for the first six months — so graduates are not abandoned after the last session.
Impact to date
Your gift at work
Philanthropic gifts cover training materials, facilitator costs, starter inputs, and the market-linkage sessions that complete the journey from skill to income.
A complete sack-garden starter kit — bag, soil amendment, seeds, and a first-month care schedule for one graduate.
One full month of agribusiness training for a young person — sessions, workbook, and facilitator time.
A full poultry starter: ten pullets, starter feed, brooding equipment, and a six-month disease-prevention calendar.
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Your gift gives a young person the skills, tools, and market access to begin earning income with dignity. Every cohort fills fast — your donation makes the next one possible.
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