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QUARTERLY PROFILE
FACT CHECK #1
11 ventures co-founded and still counting
FACT CHECK #2 Our impactful programs have garnered us an impactful networking pool of about 137,328 creative individuals not counting the world-changing companies created.
RESULTS Community owned enterprises Community-led enterprises. Community controlled-enterprises. community benefit. Enterprises able to generate profits or a surplus. Socially and environmentally responsible-enterprises. Financially self-sustaining-enterprises (or on the way to being so).
"CREATIVITY IS A DRUG I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT." ¬Cecil B.DeMille¬
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OUR BUSINESS UNITS LCA Lounge
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Events and Conferencing
LCA Sci Home Technology & Media
LCA Writers Marketing & Branding
LCA Farmyard
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Agribusiness & Hospitality
STAPLES 02 Business Units Page 03 Editor's Note 15 Our Clients 16 LCA Review 17 Contacts Page
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Editor's Note
From disruptive culture to out-of-this-world inventions, this issue celebrates the innovators and their relentless need to question the way things work.
Vision Creating innovative solutions for creative needs. - We highly encourage and provide platforms for creative people to participate in the existing and quickly growing Creative economy in Africa. Mission Turning Impactful ideas into realities. - A self-sufficient and developed Africa that celebrates its unique diversity through art. We offer a variety of services which can be tailored for your business both at a personal and organisation level. We understand the importance of listening to your story. An understanding of your motives and passions become the narrative which builds your community.
......social entrepreneurship is the attempt to draw upon business techniques to find solutions to social problems ¬ Wikipedia Hi! We are Let's Create Africa. When we founded LCA in 2014, our belief was the same as it is today: Africa. Ideas. Reality. We build world changing Social Enterprises. To instigate this change, we create social enterprises (aka community-based enterprises) that address: * Social and environmental issues, * Economic Empowerment, * Peace-building, * Educational equity. Community-based enterprises with high impact at empowering people to create better lives for themselves and drive Market Development. We want to collaborate with you to create a narrative that will build a vibrant and supportive community. The power of your ideas shall be used to develop strategies to build networks to ignite conversation, convey meaning and create relationships. We develop and deliver idea outcomes into clear realities for clients, enabling them to visualise with eloquence to their market and instigate greater change.
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Find the few like you, and they will become the many - UBUNTU! a. hig Wai K M
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WAIHIGA K.MUTURI Founder & C.E.O. of Let's Create Africa (L.C.A.) & M.U.N.A.Group Ltd.
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L.C.A. | JANUARY 2017
BY HAGGAI IMBIAKA
LCA LOUNGE Our Drive: "Creating Artistic Purpose." This is a creative core space for the artistically inclined..
C.S.R. Visual Arts Literary Arts Performance Arts Forums, Events and Conference
RADAR
OUR IMPACTFUL PROGRAMS HAVE TOGETHER GARNERED US AN IMPACTFUL NETWORKING POOL OF ABOUT 137,328 CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS
Leaving a Legacy
Shelter Up
PBC limited was formed with the aim of making it a reality to many Kenyans to own properties in the Kenyan Coast especially in Lamu while leveraging on all the key benefits of the LAPPSET Corridor Project. The company has been on a positive growth since it began its operations. This achievement can be attributed to good leadership, great team work, committed employees and our loyal clients.
#TheGrind is a Mentorship, Leadership and Entrepreneurship program focussing on modelling wholesome individuals multi-empowered to steer, optimise and propagate their abilities into their dream careers & propagatingcommunal impact. We focus on high-need students. At the end, each is given an internationally recognised certificate from International Leadership University, and a retreat involving local climate change initiative weekend in Bahati Forest Reserve, Nakuru. L.C.A. prides itself on the quality and freshness of this program to promote initiatives focussed towards sustainable & viral social impact mindsets.
#TheGrind
Mentorship I Leadership I Entrepreneurship
Growing a Movement The Young Entrepreneurs Network Africa is a networking platform that connects young innovative entrepreneurs to impact Africa We connect young aspiring and budding entrepreneurs to the knowledge, resources and social capital they need to succeed
Matters Healthcare
Building healthcare of great quality, that is affordable & accessible to all the people of the Lake Basin Economic Bloc in Kenya We partnered with the Leaders of the Lake Region Economic Block (LREB) to create an investment conference that brought together scholars, practitioners&leaders of private and government organizations, multinational corporations,&academic disciplines to share knowledge, experiences, research-based evidence about opportunities&challenges in the development of world class health system within the 13 counties of the Lake Region of Kenya.
"Creation, Invention and Innovation." This is a creative core space for the scientifically inclined.
LCA SCI HOME
KOOME MWIREBUA
Our Drive
06 Gaming Applications Website Design Website domain and hosting Digital Marketing i.e. Copy writing, Inbound Marketing Search Engine Optimization  Content Writing (websites & blogs)
eZoneAfrica , is a service that extends free
WiFi seeking to provide & make accesible free information for all and sundry. Sustainability of the project is ensured by allowing advertisements onto the platforms within certain locations at a fee, & thus fee used to ensure the sustenance and coverage. As of this year, we are invariably present within 25 major malls, 18 eateries and 5 schooling zones and have been able to reach out to more than 1.23 Million users a month within each of our locations. ALL FOR FREE!!
Point cloud , is a service offering the
only immersive 3D spaces for real world applications this side of the Sahara. We allow you to fully interact with virtual spaces in real time, and in high resolution. Now, your business can leverage affordable, rapid, high-fidelity visualizations of real spaces to immerse, impress, and gain efficiency.
Ustawi Biomedical Research Innovation and Industrial Centers of Africa(UBRICA) , Inc is a collaborative project purpose is to build Sustainable One Health Communities (SOHCs). - We seek to build 100 hospitals in Kenya every year, and provide 7,250+ villages various markets for their products.
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LCA Our Drive "Setting you apart through written communication."
WRITERS & ARTS HOME Joy M.Kioko
Catering to the growing need for excellent writing services in the corporate world.
Consultative Branding i.e. Marketing Tools; Brochures, Marketing campaigns, Ghost Writing, Corporate Writing Title Writing i.e. Creative writing, Magazines Corporate writing i.e. Press releases, Corporate Magazines, Business reports, Business marketing tools (brochures, marketing campaigns, etc), Newsletters, Case studies Reviews i.e. Property reviews, Book reviews, Restaurant/Resort reviews, Business reviews
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails." ~Mark Twain~
WE DESIGN Posters, Magazines, Fliers, Banners, Billboards, Business Cards & More
Large format, Digital paper, Crystal print, Sublimations, Heat Press, CNC Engraving & Flatbed
Vehicle, Walls, Choppers, Aeroplanes, Signages & Promotional Items
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WE PRINT
WE BRAND
LCA Farmyard Our Drive “The Art of Food.”
We are passionate about food, and the fertility of our African lands to produce fresh produce.
Five Fresh Picks Delivery Services i.e. fresh fruits & Vegetables ( Home & Office) Catering i.e. Picnics, barbecues, private parties, lunch or dinner parties Baking, Confectionery and/or pastries. Agribusiness Culinary experiences and Critiquing
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As a team of young pioneers, we decided to spend some time within communities to foster, advocate and empower young generations to help us plant 10,000 trees every year for the next five years. Our project thus far has been at the Bahati Forest Reserve is a forest(s) in the country of Kenya with an average elevation of 2,494 meters above sea level. It is located in the central part of the country, 140 km northwest of the capital Nairobi. The climate in the area is temperate.
MAKING SENSE
OF CLIMATE CHANGE
With our partner, Wendo Retreat & Arboretum provides a landscaped space where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for educational purposes and aesthetic appreciation. Wendo Retreat & Arboretum is an outdoor residential facility, that promotes learning, cooperation, responsibility, environmentalawareness, community and resourcefulness through experiential education and adventure challenges. Experience opportunities for fun, friendship and growth in a safe environment where participants are encouraged to deepen their understanding of each other, themselves and their natural environment through problem solving, exploration and communication. Come with your family & friends to enjoy Camp together. Prepare for experiences and friendships to last a lifetime!
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L.C.A. REVIEW
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WHY THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MOLD #FOODFORTHOUGHT WITH WAIHIGA K.MUTURI EDITED BY GEORGE MUIRURI Familiar to the more reverent “In the Tall Grass” by
curriculum that allows them to identify, use and
Stephen King, is an African story of a couple, taking
professionalise their creative skills to position themselves in
a walk through a forest with Tatu; their child. While
the market. The returns from these ventures are always
prancing through the forest, they came to a maze-
equally apportioned to help sustain the program, individuals
like hedge that they could only go through while guiding each other by the tips of their fingers with Tatu in between. Fatigue set in and each let go assuming that the other was holding onto Tatu. By the end of the hedge, Tatu was nowhere in sight;
and their surrounding community at large. The program has gone a long way to literally free unemployed youth’s and impoverished communities from the ‘chains of mental slavery’ that have cornered them into believing that success is a financial factor and not a communal achievement.
and soon panic set in. The dying efforts of a blame
In addition to a curriculum design, we still further seek the
game and search party proved futile.
county government’s assistance in providing young Kenyans with access and skills in information and communication
Such, is the sorry state of Africa and its steadily bulging and
technologies.
unemployed Youth population. They have been left to
Also, rally support to be part of the Youth Chamber of
roam the fields all alone, and as Alexander Chikwanda,
Commerce and African Union so as to strategically push for
Zambia Finance Minister stated: “a ticking time bomb”.
comprehensive policies for Kenya & the East African regional
In a classic article by the World Bank on ‘Ending Poverty in
government allies to provide training, appropriate skills,
a Rising Africa’, entrepreneurship has been highlighted as a
resources, and market support for the youth. Not only shall
force to being the ‘lifeblood of Africa’s Rise’ stated by the
this overtly reduce our import spending, it shall also
Tony Elemelu Foundation.
strengthen our currently flailing currency whilst setting our market at a globally competitive position to the rest of the
Having used social entrepreneurship to instil social impact
world.
within communities, We have invariably used various business marketing methods to create and enhance self-
Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka Changemakers and one of the
sustenance within communities. For example, having
world’s foremost thinkers in the world of social
worked with various community groups within the country;
entrepreneurship “Social entrepreneurs are not content just to
our best case study is the Fish bone group in Kibera slum -
give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they
who salvage fish bones from dump sites to create jewellery
have revolutionised the fishing industry.”
and later sell them to fend for themselves. In conjunction with the private sector, government and non-governmental
No country can remain prosperous and stable without
bodies we continuously hope to create and propagate a
investing in its youth. It’s simply a gift that keeps giving.
think less, live more #LetsCreateAfrica
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