Sponsor an apprentice
Skills are learned by doing. Sponsorship keeps the doing possible.
Nono Caring Hearts Foundation apprentices learn a trade inside real production — making, meeting the standard, and filling actual orders. Sponsorship keeps places open, benches stocked and trainers in the room.
Three ways in
No payment is taken on this site yet. Every enquiry is answered by a person, with the real current need and costs in writing.
Sponsor an apprentice
Back a person while they learn a trade.
An apprenticeship at Nono Caring Hearts Foundation is practical from the first week. People learn a trade by doing the work — making the product, meeting the standard, handling a real customer order. Sponsorship helps keep a place open, a workbench stocked and a trainer in the room.
What an apprentice does
Learns a trade in a working environment: soap and household products, tailoring, hairdressing and beauty, baking, catering, crafts, agribusiness and small enterprise. The training is hands-on because the work is real.
How earning fits in
Apprentices may learn through practical production and enterprise activity. Where orders and capacity allow, that work can carry a stipend or paid hours. These opportunities develop as the organisation grows — we do not promise them to everyone from day one.
Where sponsorship goes
Into the things that keep a place open: instruction, supervision, materials, equipment, and the enterprise side that helps the training pay for a growing share of itself.
The pathway
Learn. Practise. Produce. Earn. Progress.
Five stages, in order. Nobody skips the practice, because the standard is what makes the work sellable.
Learn
Structured instruction in a chosen trade — technique, safety, materials, and the standard the work has to meet before it leaves the room.
Practise
Repetition under supervision. Apprentices make the same thing until it is consistent, because consistency is what a customer actually pays for.
Produce
Work that meets the standard goes into real production — Nono Star household products, tailoring runs, baking and catering orders.
Earn
Where production and orders allow, apprentices can access stipends or paid work. This grows with demand; it is not guaranteed to every apprentice at every moment.
Progress
Toward employment, a start-up kit, a small enterprise, or a continuing role in Nono Caring Hearts Foundation production. The aim is income that outlives the training.
Ways to support
Choose the part of the work you want to carry.
Each of these keeps apprentices in training and the workshops running. Tell us which one interests you and we will send the current, real figures.
Sponsor an apprentice
Support one person's place in a training cohort — instruction, supervision and their share of workshop time.
Support training materials
Fabric, oils and chemicals, ingredients, packaging, protective gear — the consumables a practical trade uses up every single day.
Support equipment
Machines and tools that raise capacity and safety: sewing and overlock machines, mixers, ovens, dryers, salon and production equipment.
Support stipends
Help make it possible for apprentices to stay in training — transport, meals, and stipends tied to production where activity allows.
Support enterprise development
Strengthen the production and sales side, so training funds a growing share of itself and graduates have a market to sell into.
Support the training centre
The Kirinya Skilling & Empowerment Centre is the permanent home for this work — larger intakes, safer production, and space for every trade under one roof.
Support the Training CentreWhat we will and won't claim
We do not publish a fixed price per apprentice. Costs vary by trade, cohort size and materials, and we would rather share real figures with you directly than advertise a number we cannot stand behind.
We do not promise that a specific gift produces a specific guaranteed outcome. What we can promise is that we will tell you what your support went to, and what happened next.
Earning opportunities depend on production volume and orders. They are growing, and they are not yet available to every apprentice at every moment.
Apprentices are adults and young people building a trade. They are described here as such — not as case studies.
Start here
Ask us about sponsorship
Tell us what you're considering. A person replies with the current cohort, the real need, and the costs as they stand — before you commit to anything.