Base Titanium provides significant funding to ensure that bright students from Kwale County and Likoni Sub-county are able to advance their education opportunities. Around 400 scholarships are issued each year covering secondary and tertiary students.
Scholarships cover the full cost of annual tuition fees, which are paid directly to the school or institution.
Base Titanium’s Pepea Scholarship Program is designed to give opportunities to academically gifted students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Beneficiaries at both levels are selected through a rigorous vetting process that assures transparency and equity.
By investing in local human capital, Base Titanium is investing in the future of Kwale County and Kenya more broadly.
Hatua Likoni is an NGO based in Likoni, where our Port facility is based. It operates a scholarship program targeting low income households with high performing children. We have worked with Hatua Likoni on a number of education and medical projects since 2012.
Friends for Life is a locally based NGO run by a Dutch foundation providing further education opportunities in the coastal region. Since 2013, Base Titanium has supported over 20 tertiary level students from Kwale and Mombasa through this program.
Aga Khan Academy provides learning opportunities to exceptional students from all backgrounds. While emphasising the importance of academic excellence, the program also instills a sense of civic responsibility, leadership and the desire to give back to communities. Through Base Titanium’s contribution students from Kwale were selected through the Academy’s Talent Identification Program.
Al Kahf is an Islamic development welfare organisation based in Ukunda, Kwale County. Through advocacy, it secures scholarships from donor organisations for tertiary level students in the region. Base Titanium has partnered with Al Kahf through provision of logistical support to enable local students to study courses in law, medicine and business at the International University of Africa in the Sudan.
The Ummah Initiative Group (UIG) is a local community based organisation active in education, career guidance and combating violent extremism and radicalisation. UIG seeks to economically empower youth to prevent them falling prey to extremism. The partnership between Base Titanium and UIG dates back to 2012 and has so far seen more than 5,000 local youth benefit through scholarship opportunities, career guidance, gainful employment and entrepreneurship as sources of income.