Archdiocese of Nairobi Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute

Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute (or Karobangi Women)  is owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi and run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters, since 1992. KWPTI is a non-profit-oriented training school situated in Kariobangi an area with a very high percentage of youth who are idle and in search of ways of getting an income.

These youth are young women who easily get manipulated for implementing unfruitful activities that not only affect their dignity but also foster insecurity. We offer them the possibility to access education by offering holistic training in various skills such as Catering, Hairdressing & Beauty, and Dressmaking Grade III & II.

In addition, the training women receive spiritual and human formation to instill positive values and attitudes that help them to cope with the labor market. So far 77% of our former students are employed or self-employed and are able to support their life and families. Every year we are striving to make this percentage higher by continuously improving our courses to reach the institute goal.   Counseling is part of our program to help women to discover and liberate their potentials while they reconcile with their past.

Our Goal: The development goal guiding K.W.P.T.I. is to reduce the unemployment rate of the Institute’s target group through education.  Employed and self-employed young women are less likely to engage in risky and/or illegal activities and are capable, through legal and dignified means, to procure for themselves and provide for their children basic human necessities, housing, food, health care, and education.

Our Objective: To instill in our beneficiaries the “Can Do Spirit” by providing vocational training skills that are relevant in their environment, and human formation that empowers them to compete and endure in the challenging labour market they face after completing the training.

Tie & Dye Shop: The sustainability of KWPTI in the past was based on donations received by various parishes and friends.  Due to the economic crisis these offerings have greatly reduced, thus we are training to increase income generating activities such as the production of Tie & Dye goods.

This is a result of the creativity, hope and courage of the staff and the trainees that are doing their best to support and improve the situation of our young women through the sale of our goods and covering the salaries of part of our staff members.

Currenlty we continue to participate in various expositions in Nairobi as well as to welcome all visitors who come to our  shop located within the institute.  Te shop has Tie & Dye products produced by our staff an trainees.  The same initiative is being  shared with the catering department whereby we are trying to see how we can involve the trainees to offer the catering services towards boosting the budget as well as their own school fees.

In our Tie & Dye Shop we provide unique and exclusive  designs of hand made Tie & Dye products such as:

• Tie and Dye Table Clothes of various sizes and colours with and without serviettes
• Tie and Dye Scarves, Kangas, bags, wrappers, dresses, baby dresses, t-shirts, shirts, fabric material, etc.