## The Maven story

Mentoring is a great tool used to shape and guide the youth on their journey to become responsible and productive members of the community. When powered by Voluntarism and targeted at the underprivileged the community can only develop.

The challenges and opportunities of the digital age have left a great many teens in Africa lost as they attempt to find a path to follow...

...with these challenges the teens are on a free fall having limited role models at a local level, no formal way for them to pick up values that build true character and little or no pride in the African social culture.

The Maven’s sole purpose is through volunteerism to provide a platform for teens from all walks of life to identify the promise within each and every one of them, and an opportunity to rise up to be mavens, to champion a seamless cycle of ever improving Excellence Continuity.

We seek to understand and provide the African teen with a solid foundation for a productive life ahead...Our Mavens work to realign teen mentoring systems in Africa by falling back to the collective communal way of collaboratively preparing the youth for a fruitful future.To Positively Impact Africa by empowering the teen mindset

Maven is a pragmatic mentoring instrument designed to equip the care giver and the African teen (13-19 years) with self-belief, values and an opportunity to live life to the fullest now.Our Promise; Excellence Continuity

### Our Philosophy

We nurture self belief, positive values, soft skills and personal imprinting to build self aware and confident Mavens in whose hands the fate of Africa and her future is assured by continuity of excellence.

The Maven philosophy sits on three main pillars:

- We support the teen to believe in themselves and enhance their Self Esteem
- We organize knowledge by exposure and job shadowing
- Growing by doing