The CEO and founding father of the Kidogo childcare community in East Africa, Sabrina Habib, has received the Princess of Girona International Award 2023. Kidogo is a non-profit social enterprise that has turn out to be the most important schooling and caring for pre-school kids in casual settlements in East Africa.
This was introduced this Friday by the president of the jury of the Princess of Girona Foundation International Award (Fpdgi), Pedro Alonso, at an occasion on the CaixaForum Macaya along with the opposite winners of this 12 months’s version.
The jury has awarded this prize in recognition of “his nice initiative of reasonably priced early childhood care in East Africa and for his dedication to work with the native inhabitants and assure high quality.” And they add that “the mannequin he has developed combines funding, moms’ care and work to generate a sublime and easy resolution that’s simply scalable, so it has the potential to extend its influence over time.”
The objective of this initiative is, within the phrases of Habib, “to make sure that younger kids obtain the care, vitamin and stimulation they should thrive of their early years, whereas their moms work in peace.”
The founding father of ‘Arte Paliativo’, Sílvia Fernández, the violinist María Dueñas, the aeronautical engineer Rafael Jordá and the researcher Marc Schneeberger are the opposite winners of this 2023.
Canadian with an African coronary heart
Sabrina Habib was born in Canada in 1988, right into a household that had emigrated from the African continent. From an early age, she was conscious that the native land typically determines the trajectory of life, since, not like her mother and father and grandparents, she did have entry to a high quality public schooling and well being care system.
Prior to founding Kidogo, Sabrina managed an Aga Khan Development Network major well being care and social improvements mission in East Africa. Since she was younger, she felt the accountability of providing alternatives to kids rising up in essentially the most marginalized communities of East Africa, in order that they might get away of intergenerational cycles of poverty.
It was there that she realized that the kid care disaster that was attacking the slums of Nairobi needed to be confronted from one other standpoint that might enable moms to go to work with peace of thoughts, realizing that their kids had been receiving the care and vitamin they want. Thus was born Kidogo in 2014, which makes use of a social franchise system to supply girls locally with the information and assist instruments to start out and develop their very own childcare micro-businesses.
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