The Supply

We often think of education as a one-size-fits-all band aid. Four walls, a chalkboard, and some books, and we have the cure to global poverty. Yes, education is undeniably the best investment anyone can make. No one will ever question that. However, what we want to ask are the hard questions: education for whom? For where? And for what purpose? We don’t simply want to be a charity that gives education for the sake of giving education or plant schools for the sake of planting schools, but we want to be a partner with communities to collaboratively learn and figure out what the educational needs are. Yes, The Supply exists because we are moved by the stories of the plights of slum communities and challenged by their desperate fight for an education. We can do everything we can to share their stories, financially invest in low-cost community secondary schools, and wrap our minds around creative curricular designs. But, in the end we know that the real change will come from within and all we really need to do is activate these next set of leaders who will transform the cities of tomorrow. Therefore, our mission is to activate urban slum youth to create the cities of tomorrow. We are currently activating youth in Lenana and Matopeni, two slum communities in Nairobi. Learn more about our issue and our work here: http://thesupply.org/