The community safe spaces.
We work with participants to identify safe spaces where they can interact without feeling stigmatized. In the safe spaces, peer to peer learning takes place through information sharing and exchange ideas. Benefits such as employment opportunities, global learning, health and rights, talent development are realized.
The space provides creation activities with board games, TV shows and sports.
Safe spaces build a social protection network among peers.
Mentorship
We work with children, women and men as mentors as well as companies to drive sustainable, long-term change within schools, communities and the economic sector. We employ results-based approaches to influence their peers, families, and communities. We work closely with existing community structures to reach others and support lasting positive change.
Life skills development
We apply a holistic life-skilling approach that empowers vulnerable children, adolescent girls, and young women to achieve self-reliance and dignity. The approach combines essential life skills including financial literacy, decision-making, and leadership. Life-skilling is integrated with protection, rights awareness, and psychosocial resilience to prevent exploitation and violence. Learning is community-based and experiential, using demonstration sites, mentorship, and peer learning to ensure skills are practical and relevant. Through this approach, participants break cycles of poverty and vulnerability while building sustainable, environmentally responsible livelihoods.
Community support systems
We work with existing community support systems to form a pathway that protect children and families. Through trainings, communities are empowered with information and skills to handle cases in their areas with the support of community structures including the police, rights protection toll free lines and the district local government among others. This leads to increased rights awareness, reduced exploitation, and stronger child protection mechanisms.
Child care Units (0-4years)
The unit provides a safe space for children of young mothers under the livelihood trainings, young employed mothers and domestic workers.
The success of these young women is usually threatened because of their children. The unit provides a safe space for the children to play as the mothers or care takers continue with their training or work. These units are connected to existing Early childhood Centers within the community.
Home based care and support
We believe in a family as a social protection to system. We therefore support family to be able to support their members. Sustainability strategies including creation/strengthening livelihood among family members are emphasized
E-learning and skills dvelopment
The unit runs off and online Global Learning programs for children and youth on topics including education, environment, business and health.
Networking and referral
Somero networks with a number of stakeholders who provide services that are needed by our beneficiaries and staff. These are categories in
Civil Society organizations. Somero works with CSOs and is a member of a number of National and international Networks.
Private sectors. These form a network of business mentors, employers of Somero beneficiaries and role models of best employers in the communities.
Health facilities. We network with a number of health government and private health facilities with contact persons who can support our beneficiaries.
Though we provide training to our partners, we also receive training from them to understand their services and provision systems.