We deliver targeted, practical solutions designed by displaced leaders to resolve the root causes of vulnerability along the Kenya–Somalia border: lack of legal status, unsafe housing, and economic exclusion.
Direct intervention mechanisms operating across Dadaab Refugee Complex & Garissa host communities:
Providing heavy-duty sewing equipment, fabric stock, and business coaching for displaced youth (e.g., Amina) to launch independent tailoring micro-enterprises. Beneficiaries earn between 3,000 and 5,000 KES weekly, dismantling reliance on aid rations.
Deploying trained documentation assistants (e.g., Hassan, Samira) to accompany asylum seekers to registration desks, fighting extortion, explaining RSD rights, and securing official intersex/transgender documentation.
Maintaining secure, non-judgmental temporary safe houses in Garissa & Dadaab equipped with bunk beds, shared kitchens, emergency malaria medication, and trauma counseling for youth fleeing forced marriage and homophobic violence.
Conducting peer-led financial literacy workshops on budgeting, pricing, and record-keeping taught by refugee professionals (e.g., Yusuf). Over 40 entrepreneurs trained in 2025 to manage independent cash flow.
"Mayhem Threads supported me to launch a financial literacy training program for refugee entrepreneurs. I run weekly workshops on budgeting, record-keeping, and business planning... They didn't save me. They reminded me that I could save myself."
— Yusuf, 34, Trained Accountant & Recognized Refugee in Dadaab
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