Podcast S1: E5: Sabrina Natasha Habib

We zoom back to Africa this time to the east with Sabrina from Kidogo in Nairobi, Kenya.

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• Who: Sabrina Natasha Habib, CEO & Co-Founder, Kidogo, Kenya
• Why you should listen: One, to get a sense of how Sabrina and her co-founder encountered complexity and drove simplicity in their solutions. Two, to understand the brush with reality community change faces and how, echoing the simplicity aforesaid, one can nudge parents from homework to play based activities, from report cards to portfolios and why social change takes time.
• This podcast is perfect for: A burst of inspiration and systems thinking. Sabrina talks about how Covid19 has challenged the world of children — fading smartphone technology access, toxic stress, the need for parents to get help and then how Kidogo is triage-ing and leveraging community services that stretch across ministries to help parents to support their children.
• Pause and listen quote: while the stories of children bring so much joy and many smiles, this reality check seemed worth flagging

…started a conditional cash transfer programme for mamapreneurs… running a childcare business at this level means you’re month to month… and do so without any support meant getting kicked out of your babycare centre. So… when the economy needed to restart these women were going to be crucial in that and the biggest barrier to women’s employment is the lack of childcare. And if childcare centres were closed because they did not survive the pandemic…how to ensure a robust supply of childcare centres. So we gave our mamapreneurs these cash transfers… conditional based on distributing play packs, and micronutrients and also on calling every parent in their centre once every two weeks… we saw toxic stress was increasing in households given the unpredictability…

• Their favourite books as children: The Witches, Roald Dahl. It brings back memories of snuggling in bed with her mother and brother and enacting the many voices in the book!
• Want to read more: The Kidogo way on Kidogo’s website — or as an longer article

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