Mekatilili Micro-Grant Award
Small grants for ideas worth trying.
The Mekatilili Micro-Grant Award provides grants of up to KES 100,000 to Kenyan innovators, makers and problem-solvers ready to take the next step with a project.
Applications are open!
Nurturing maker culture in Africa.
Mekatilili was created to enhance technical skills among African youth through creative learning approaches that empower learners and expand access to meaningful work and opportunities.
Through workshops, fellowships, and collaborative projects, we brought together makers and innovators to design, build, and experiment with solutions to real-world challenges.
Our work combined human-centered design, technology, and hands-on learning to build practical skills and encourage creative problem-solving.
The Mekatilili Fellowship Program
In 2019, we launched the Mekatilili Fellowship Program, bringing together 30 emerging African innovators in Nairobi for a hands-on, peer-driven learning experience.
Fellows used human-centered design, digital technologies, and prototyping to develop locally relevant solutions across accessibility, agriculture, and manufacturing.
The fellowship was delivered in collaboration with the tiilt Lab at Northwestern University, with support from the MIT Media Lab and Legatum Center at MIT.
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Queengineers
Stories, resources and community for women in engineering.
Queengineers is a free digital magazine spotlighting women engineers across Africa, sharing their journeys, the work they’re building, and the possibilities within engineering.
