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Empowering Financial Sustainability: GIV’s Finance Training Workshop Under the LocNet Framework

At Global Innovation Valley (GIV), we believe that financial sustainability is the backbone of every impactful initiative. As we continue to bridge the digital divide and empower marginalized communities, it is crucial to build robust financial structures that enhance our operations’ transparency, efficiency, and accountability. One month ago, we took… Read More »Empowering Financial Sustainability: GIV’s Finance Training Workshop Under the LocNet Framework

Empoweing Refugee Youth Through Cybersecurity

In today’s digital world, young refugees are increasingly active on social media and online platforms, seeking opportunities to connect, learn, and grow. Unfortunately, this also makes them vulnerable to cyber threats such as social media scams, identity theft, and online fraud. To address these challenges, Global Innovation Valley (GIV), in partnership with the Africa Cybersecurity… Read More »Empoweing Refugee Youth Through Cybersecurity

Applied Global Innovation Program: Empowering Social Entrepreneurs

At Global Innovation Valley, we empower young refugees and disadvantaged youth to become agents of change, social entrepreneurs, and job creators. We achieve this by providing transformative education and entrepreneurship training in the form of an incubation that provides a holistic approach to both individual and business development and facilitating… Read More »Applied Global Innovation Program: Empowering Social Entrepreneurs

Meaningful Connectivity in Refugee Camps

International Telecommunications Union defines meaningful digital connectivity as that which “allows users to have a safe, satisfying, enriching, and productive online experience at an affordable cost.” Oftentimes, discussion has leaned on “universal connectivity” while neglecting “meaningful connectivity”. To exacerbate the situation, the latter has been misunderstood. For example, meaningful connectivity… Read More »Meaningful Connectivity in Refugee Camps

Championing last mile connectivity: Association of Community Networks in Kenya

Bridging the digital divide in Kenya requires a collective effort, starting with innovative, adaptive, and inclusive policy regulations, collaboration amongst industry players, organizational management, and institutional funding. Locally, community networks have proven to be a vital means for bridging the digital divide. They are decentralized, community-owned, and community-operated telecommunication infrastructures… Read More »Championing last mile connectivity: Association of Community Networks in Kenya

Our Model

Our scholars are between 18 and 30 years old and are refugees, orphans, street children, former child soldiers, former inmates, former prostitutes, or young people from other marginalized and poor backgrounds in the host community. They have dropped out of school and society has labelled them “useless“.  We have proven… Read More »Our Model

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