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This is a space to walk alongside displaced communities, meeting each other in our shared humanity. We want your ideas, your goals, and your questions in the room with us.
Join us for community teas, workshops, and briefings – see what events are coming up and save your spot.
Our team connects people to practical resources — skills trainings, legal guidance, and more. LGBTIQ refugees can also connect with our affiliate ORAM for dedicated support.
⟶ Grassroots and refugee-led organizations - especially those without access to their own facilities - are welcome to use the Hub for meetings and gatherings. Reach out to Carlos Joseph Karuri (CarlosK@WeAreAlight.org) to talk through availability and fit.
⟶ The Nairobi Hub is a place where you can meet with and learn more about the work of Alight’s Horn of Africa Enterprise and Sudan Enterprise teams, as well as our affiliate ORAM, which supports LGBTIQ refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya.
The Nairobi Hub embodies Alight’s principle of co-creation. From the earliest design stages, our teams were involved in re-imagining their working space: How should this place feel? What should it offer? What energy should it hold? Local partners, designers, and Alight team members sat with these questions together, shaping everything from the materials on the walls to how the rooms are laid out.
How do we invite people into a craft so the choice – to learn and to earn – is truly theirs? It started with a small group of Hub visitors who decided to try beadwork. Very soon, more people joined in. What began as open trial sessions with Bawa Hope has grown into a selected seven-session cohort, complete with home-practice kits and a co-signed certificate. "Earning through my own hands gives me dignity – and protects me from what instability brings," one participant shared.
Legal support often lives far from the people who need it most. So the Hub invited 23 refugee community leaders to come to us instead – trusted voices who could carry what they learned back to their communities. They left a civic education session, hosted with the Loya Waihenya Foundation, with more than answers: the confidence to help others find theirs. "Before today, I did not know what my rights were," one participant said. "Now I know where to begin, and I can help others do the same."
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At Alight, we believe the future of humanitarian work depends on a fundamental shift: from delivering solutions to co-creating them. This was the inspiration behind the Co-Creation Hub in Nairobi.
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On this World Refugee Day, we recognize the abundance, depth, and resilience of people journeying through the lived experience of displacement.
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Since 2013, Alight has worked in Kismayo, creating sustainable communities focusing on housing, health, education, and resilience to natural disasters.
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