The making of a young designer entrepreneur

Hey y'all,

Last month (April) was interesting. I decided to start my personal entrepreneurship training  so I simply looked for teenage girls in my court where I live and approached their parents. I got their permission to teach them entrepreneurship based on my experience. I'm so excited about this girl whose dream is to become a designer. My job is currently to help her raise money to make her very first creation. I LOVE my job. I can't wait to share the progress we make :)

Bless!

L

Our new space: Yaya Centre

We are super excited feeling totally honoured and blessed to have a space to sell our merchandise at Yaya Centre, 2nd floor Inside the Baobab. Woooooot! This is the Big League baby! It's a great location, lots of middle class/ upper class Kenyans and expats shop here so our sales have increased and that means so has our impact. For every 4 bracelets we sell, we are able to impact 1 girl. Amazing things are happening to us. We will be meeting the president of Kenya H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta soon ( i believe ;) Watch this space. BOOM!

Love and light,

Lila

Founder

TBT Bizarre Bazaar Crafts Festival June 2015

When I look back at all the places we have had a stand to sell our merchandise, Bizarre Bazaar in Karura Forest stands out as the best place. We had a shared booth last year in June and it was a great experience (obviously sales wise). I don't know about other times of the year but this year I will be looking out for BizBaz for the June/July period.

Blessings,
LK

Congratulations Faith Wanja! KCPE Results

Hey good people,

I just wanted to congratulate my girl Faith Wanja for passing her KCPE exams. I am so proud of her. She's a smart girl and we helped contribute to the payment of her school fees last year. It feels good to see that she did well. She scored 304/500 and we're so proud.

Her dream is to become a doctor. Well, y'all look out for Dr. Wanja in future ;)

Happy New Year, wishing you all the success possible.

Bless,

L

Mdada and Michelle Obama in Doha, Qatar

Hey guys,

This was the best thing that happened to us last year, seriously! To be in the same room with an icon and girls' education champion Mrs Michelle Obama was EPIC!! This was at the World Innovation Summit in Education in Doha, Qatar in Nov, 2015.

It was so awesome, just listening to her. We were so inspired.These words spoken be her summed up our year-

"Don't worry about those who don't believe in you, you just have to work harder to prove them wrong" 

YES and YES and YES. 

This shot was taken from way back in the auditorium. Unbelievable. I tweeted that i would meet her just a few months before and this was close to that. My dreams are coming true y'all.

Other than this it was a great experience, I met some wonderful people from Japan, Singapore, China, Israel, US, Pakistan, Jordan etc. It was GREAT. Qatar is rich y'all. It's actually the richest country in the world.

This happened during my birthday and it was the best gift I could ever receive. Stayed at a 5 star hotel, had great food, met amazing people and made great connections. Graca Machel was there too. She speaks so passionately about education, you will be converted if you're not a believer!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Sakeena Yacoobi for winning the WISE Prize 2015. She's doing an amazing job educating women in Afghanistan. She's definitely one I look up to.

I'm still not over all this and it happened in November 2015 :)

Bless,
L

PS: I was sort of a celeb there because of my hair!!!  haha I had these twisted braids in maroon, blonde and black. Some guy from Bahrain even had to get a pic:) Will share the photo if anyone asks for it. (i'm too shy)The compliments i got were awesome. I'm soo soo happy about this.

Are we international now? :)

We just sold our merchandise to the ICANN organization at their most recent ICANN54 Fellows programme in Ireland!!!

It feels so good to actually get people miles away on a different continent and country that I have never even been to get connected to us and our cause. Wow, what can i say. This is what we're about. Bringing hundreds and thousands from all over the world to make a difference in a girl's life by simply wearing our merchandise.

Thank you ICANN :)

Yassssssss :)

We're on Jumia baby!

This means a lot you guys. Our products, currently bracelets, are listed on Jumia!!! Yey!!

Jumia is a major platform plus, it saves us so much time trying to deliver products by ourselves. Now, if you like our merchandise or just want to support our girls you can go to our Mdada shop on Jumia and purchase a bracelet which will be delivered to you.

In future, I want the girls in my entrepreneurship class to list their merchandise on this platform so that  they can learn and make real money today which will pay their own school fees. This is genius right? No? Haha feel free to critique us in our comments...

Hey, we're also on Etsy for all the diaspora and international folk out here. Search for the shop mdadaforgirls.


God bless,
L

To purchase/support the cause go to Mdada shop