Konexio
Providing Job Training and Digital Skills for Refugees
Fast Facts
Kenya
David Kennedy
2021, 2022-23, 2024, 2025
Job Training
How Konexio Is Making a Difference
Konexio helps disadvantaged populations to master key digital skills needed to gain employment in today’s technology-based job marketplace.
Through a series of training programs that focus on both tech learning and community building, Konexio facilitates the social and professional integration of marginalized populations — immigrants, refugees, migrants, and unemployed youth and vulnerable women. Konexio’s programs, created by a team of educators, IT professionals, and community volunteers, address three key problem areas: skills gaps, poor local economic conditions, and limited access to the job market.
The Work of Konexio
- Uses the Digital Inclusion Program that Konexio created to address the lack of skills, poor local economic conditions, and lack of access to the job market.
- Trains trainers and supports the initial set-up for on-the-ground organizations, building local capacity and creating a lasting community resource.
- Leverages its replicable program model to build local capacity and promote long-term economic independence.
- Teaches program participants to become independent freelancers with access to the job market, so they can earn wages that will substantially improve their standard of living.
Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood
2021: $30,000 to support the development of a Digital Inclusion Program (DIP) to provide digital skills instruction, mentoring and access to jobs for student refugees in Kenya who have no existing computer skills, with the aim of preparing them to be job-market-ready within six months.
2022-23: $30,000 to expand the Digital Inclusion Program to refugees in the Dzelaka camp in Malawi.
2024: $40,000 to provide the Digital Inclusion Program to young women in the Kakuma Refugee camp with digital and entrepreneurial skills that will ultimately prepare students to be fully independent freelancers.
2025: $30,000 to provide the Digital Inclusion Program to young refugees, mainly women, in the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Using the Train-the-Trainer approach to teach and disseminate essential digital and soft skills, and to help students access remote work opportunities, ensures that knowledge is retained and continuously shared within the community.