Meet the YES Cohort 2 Entrepreneurs
We are excited to share with you the YES 2020 entrepreneurs tackling challenges in education, health, youth unemployment, mental well being, fashion, food and agriculture.
Paying Forward
A platform for professionals, entrepreneurs and brands to offer mentorship and develop capacity among the youth in Kenya.
Life Skills Training Through Dance
A social venture seeking to increase access to life skills training and social emotional learning to children in vulnerable communities through dance
Youth-led life-skills training
A youth-led social venture equipping children and adolescents with life skills that helps them cope with daily life stresses and maximize their potential.
Nature's Candy
A modern fruit orchard that farms and supplies fresh fruits as raw materials to other businesses while observing best practices that conserve the environment.
Digitizing Informal Saving/Investment Groups
A platform for Chamaas, welfare and youth groups in informal settlements, to conveniently manage members, track their records and contributions effectively.
Re-imagining Healthy Lifestyles in Kenya
A social venture enabling individuals to attain their individual health goals and prevent onset of NCDs through personalized guided plans (meals, exercise)
Redefining African Entrepreneurship Journey
A social venture designed to educate, transform and empower young African entrepreneurs through contextual African themed online and offline content.
Your home for young creatives
Waruks Productions is a creative hub that offers a space for creatives to express themselves and solve societal problems through their talents.
Organic vegetables for healthier you
A social venture using hydroponic and greenhouse technology to farm organic vegetables to meet the increasing demand for healthier living for people in Nairobi.
Home for premium botanical oils
A social venture providing a prolific arena of rich, high premium, unadulterated and health restoring botanical oils that promotes wellness for all and spurs wealth creation for African women farmers.
Developing Performance Art for Kids
Maua Kids is a social venture focussing on developing performing arts and instilling leadership skills among children in slums in Nairobi through dance.
Embrace your Inner Self
A one-stop platform providing safe spaces for men’s mental and physical wellbeing coupled with natural, reliable and premium grooming products.
Always be Learning
Village2nation is a digital skills social impact venture preparing young Africans for the world of work through training on critical 21st century skills.
An easy way of life
A social venture providing a simple tool that is accessible online that enables people to discover their interests and talents in every life situation.
Upcycling African Fabric Pieces
An African fashion brand that creates unique afrocentric pieces made out of recycled scrap African print fabric gathered from tailors’ outlets.
An easy way of life
A social venture providing a simple tool that is accessible online that enables people to discover their interests and talents in ever life situation
SUPER FOOD FOR COMMUNITIES
A social venture seeking to provide superfoods to the growing population and donate an equal amount of the same product to low-resourced schools in Kenya.
Tackling mental health among young people
Nivishe is a youth-run social venture seeking to create mental health awareness and to break stigma around mental health to individuals and marginalized communities.
Re-defining crop care for farmers
A social venture empowering African famers scale their operations by providing customized services such as farm visits, soil testing and farm management.
Waste recycling in Slums
Ghetto Clean Up is a social venture tackling environmental degradation in slum areas as well as creating job opportunities for the youths by giving wastes an economic value.