About Us
Franky’s Foundation is an ICT based Non-Governmental Organization that was established to support and empower less-privileged women with hands-on ICT skills in mobile phone and laptop repair. Our empowerment program helps create employment and opportunities for women who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
OUR VISION
To help vulnerable and less privileged Kenyan women access jobs, as well as to close the gender gap in ICT.
OUR MISSION
To empower disadvantaged Kenyan women through volunteering and social action, supporting them and putting them into a cycle of developing their skills, talents, and interests
OUR GOALS
To enable Kenyan women to develop a career in the maintenance and repair industry and raise their living standards, since there is constant and continuous use of electronic devices across the country, hence the need for repair services
our team
Frankline Ojiambo
Founder/CEO
Vivian Owino
Co-founder
OUR OBJECTIVES
- To increase the number of girls and women who are participating in today's technology led world.
- To empower girls and women with digital skills that are key to solving some of the big challenges the world faces in the 21st century, attain sustainable development and make the world a better place to live in
- To reduce youth unemployment but it is also a means towards achieving gender equality, women's empowerment and accelerating the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals
MILESTONES
- partnered with the Ministry of ICT, International Rescue Committee, Jamii Training Institute, and Musha Foundation to expand our outreach through key CSR programs.
- Partnered with Managers without Borders, a non-profit foundation in Germany that fights poverty in socially and economically weak regions of the world. The foundation assigns the foundation a manager who accompanies and supports our steps of development through knowledge transfer. Opening a new training center in Njiru Nairobi. This is a combined effort with the Ministry of ICT to penetrate marginalized regions with our program.
- Academic merits include the graduation of more than 50 students from our training center; most are self-employed while others are employed by several tech companies.
Founder's Story
Frankline Ojiambo is the Founder and Director of Franky’s Foundation, an award winner of the Entrepreneurship World Cup Kenya National competition 2021, winner of Stories of Change Competition 2021 from Gov junction in the UK, and a Social Founder of the Year awarded by the Tucsi Foundation of India. Mr. Ojiambo is a natural leader, a noted philanthropist, a champion of Affirmative Action, and a Kenyan entrepreneur with 8 years of experience in the ICT industry. Over the past years, he has partnered and enjoyed working with a wide variety of organizations on different projects simultaneously to its completion focusing on tackling poverty, gender inequality and the disparaging wage gap amongst women country-wide
Since the inception of Franky’s Foundation in 2019, Mr. Ojiambo has achieved notable milestones and numerous achievements which include: empowering and training 200 women in ICT hands-on skills, partnering with the ministry of ICT, innovation and youths affairs, International Rescue Committee, Jamii training institute, Musha Care Foundation and managers without borders to help women tame employment through ICT hands-on training skills and expand the Foundation outreach through key CSR programs