Destiny Empowerment Centre

About us

Located on the south side of Mombasa Kenya in the informal settlement of Likoni - that is plagued with high levels of poverty, drug abuse and children gangs - Destiny Empowerment Centre is a safe space for young people from the area who come to find themselves, discover their unique talents and abilities, and grow them to their highest possible levels.

Destiny Empowerment Centre is a constantly evolving institution. It was established in 2003 as a feeding program for the vulnerable children in the Likoni community who were malnourished. The program was then known as Destiny Children’s Centre.

To make the program more valuable, we started offering reading and writing lessons and ended up having a kindergarten.  The kindergarten grew and evolved into a fully registered primary school (Destiny Visionary School) by 2014. The school enjoyed enormous success and has seen over 800 children pass through our education system from Kindergarten to Class 8.

To continue to positively impact our community, we have now evolved into a mentorship program for young people using sports, music and performing arts as our mentorship tools. The reason we chose to focus on these three areas is because these are greatly underserved. A lot of effort on the part of government, non-governmental organizations and private players has been directed towards formal education

With all the evolution, our purpose remains: to provide underprivileged young people with opportunities to excel. We believe that every child has unique in born talents and abilities and that these should be nurtured, grown and used as the young person’s ticket out of poverty. We have identified the challenges that stand in the way of young people and have stepped in and made it our objective to offer solutions to these challenges.

*Destiny Empowerment Centre is a joint venture between the Daughters of Destiny Children’s Trust and Stichting Likoni Onderneemt.

Our objectives

1.                  To provide talented young people with access to resources and equipment needed to grow their talents.

2.                  To provide talented young people with the proper guidance needed to grow their talents to elite levels.

3.                  To expose the talented youths to local and international high achievers in their respective field of interest.

4.                  To equip the talented youths with the relevant Life skills and Mindset required to be self-reliant and responsive to the challenges faced by their communities.

Our programs

Sports (football & basketball)
These are run by qualified and competent coaches who incorporating learning from the best in the business through internet research.

Music
We provide a music room equipped with musical instruments and an internet connection to enable our young people to benefit from the numerous music classes available on line. We are working on getting a qualified music teacher to come over a few days in a week

Performing arts
We provide practice space for drama and dance groups to do their rehearsals

Forest Restoring Project

Our planet is currently grappling with the problem of climate change. This problem has increased hunger and poverty in Africa and other less developed countries that depend on rain-fed agriculture. However, it is possible to reverse this situation by using a very natural solution: planting trees.

Trees have the power to sequester carbon, improve soil quality, increase biodiversity, provide a source of food and much more.  

We have created a social enterprise called Gardening Galore, whose purpose is to exploit the commercial opportunities that exist in providing solutions to the problem of climate change.  

Our vision

To be a centre that offers young people an enabling environment to “find themselves, discover their talents and abilities, and grow them to their highest ability.

Our mission

To inspire, motivate, support and guide talented young people to reach their highest potential in sports, music & the arts.