Akad Education Group - Africa

Aim: Transition preparation: From high school to tertiary educational institutions and working life. 

This includes, but is not limited to, helping  prepare willing, passionate and visionary youth to further seek admission and scholarship into top, world class institutions.

The core program is of ten (10) core sessions of 35 contact hours & 10 field sessions of over 35 hours. The program was kicked off by the full day, 2018 Admissions & Scholarships Day on 11th January 2018. The skills provided include, but are not limited to the following;  

• Critical Thinking
  
• Problem Solving
  
• Field trips
  
• Group work
  
• Team building
  
• Research
  
• Presentations with assignments in between. 
  

Our training format is for participation in a Socratic fashion, which requires the participants to work - not just sit back and fall asleep. This is within a fun environment with experiential team-building methodology.

Our Value Addition includes; 

• Self discovery – students first need to know themselves; their gifts, abilities, learning styles, dreams, goals and vision
  
• Identify possible careers – based on knowing themselves
  
• Prepare for their careers – based on post secondary institutions, such as universities
  
• Plot your educational journey – setting of goals, timelines for short, medium and long term goals
  
• Establish a career path – based on current & emerging challenges in the job and careers market locally and overseas
  
• Establish Life & Soft skills
• Launch entrepreneurial projects through proof of concept, pilot projects, scale up projects

2017 Core & Field Activities 

• Sat 25th February 2017: Minerva Schools information & scholarships session at Premier, Best Western Hotel
• Mon 20th February 2017; African Leadership University, School of Business event at Sankara Hotel
• Fri 17^th February 2017: Gender Based Violence at Silver Springs Hotel
  
• Wed 15^th February 2017: Community Service at Vigil School, Kawangware, Nairobi
  
• Tue 14 February 2017: Negotiation Training, Core Session
  
•  Fri 10^th February 2017: Political Leadership; Gender Financing with the Centre of Multiparty Democracy (CMD) and Narc Kenya.
  
• Sat 11^th February 2017: Mindspeak at Norfolk Hotel with John Mahama, former president of Ghana.  
  
•  Thur 9^th February 2017; Cellulant Corporation - a technology business in the mobile and digital services’ sector in Africa.
  
• Thur 7^th Feb 2017: Confidence Building & Personal Branding. 
  
• Thur 7^th Feb 2017: Pitching with DEMO Africa at the Boma Hotel
  
• Fri 3^rd Feb 2017: Women in Leadership with KEWOPA and Narc Kenya
  
•  Thur 2^nd Feb 2017; United Nations office in Nairobi tour
  
•  Fri  27^th Jan 2017: Retirement Benefits Authority day at the Intercontinental Hotel
  

For the Gap Year 2017, the last activity in May 2017 was participation at the Kenya National Prayer Breakfast, whose Chief Guest was H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto, Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro, Senators, Governors, MP's, Ambassadors and other leaders.

Liability Waiver

• Costs for core events at MOW Sports Club include tea & snacks. 
• Costs exclude transport, internet, third party & field trip costs. 
• Field trips & activities are at cost (which vary), payable in advance and subject to space availability. 
• Field trips are available subject to collaborative partner agreements, and given on a competitive basis - which includes but is not limited to, assessment of submitted Monitoring & Evaluation Essays from Core activity events (please see essay writing format below). 
• Timetable details of field trips will be provided to successfully registered participants on a need to know basis.
• By registering, all participants confirm that they have the discretion and are healthy enough to participate in physically straineous team-building activities 
• Liability waiver is as per policy is available by clicking here
• Manual liability waiver is to be signed for walk in participants. 

Community Service 

The advantage to participants is that community service verifies and measures your philanthropic contribution to society. This is of value to youth seeking to demonstrate value addition to their profiles, when seeking possible admission and scholarship opportunities in overseas institutions (where an "A" grade is not enough). Community Service is one of the five basic pillars AKAD provides assistance to our mentees.

The YEES! Program schools and community in based in Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya. YEES! delivers entrepreneurship training to children from the ages of 6-15 years in Kawangware. The curriculum includes enterprise skills, field trips, literacy, and creative and sports development delivered during the school holidays. The program uses trained local entrepreneurs as volunteers to deliver the training and to serve as mentors.

     Community Service at Vigil Schools, Kawangware, Nairobi