Programs

Access to Information

The Hub provides affordable access to computers, high speed internet, printing, copying and scanning services in Morija.

Daily Skills & Soup

100 children and adolescents receive nutritious meals, and academic and wellness tutoring. Read more.

Skills & Soup Outreach

Each month, our facilitators take Skills & Soup on the road with outreach to digitally excluded schools for academic and wellness tutoring.

Loan Out Library

The only loan out library in Morija fosters a love of reading, and strengthens overall reading, writing and linguistic skills.

Media Literacy Training

The Hub delivers Media and Information Literacy (MIL) training for youth. Learn more.

Monthly Hub Talks

Monthly motivational public talks that bring a range of professionals, creative practitioners and activists to The Hub.

Hub Talk Podcast

Monthly podcast featuring Hub Talk speakers, that aims to inspire youth, and open their eyes to a variety of career paths. Listen to the Hub Talk Podcast.

Environmental Education

The Hub has developed an educational curriculum based on two of our animated films about climate change, plastic pollution and environmental destruction.

Community Cleanups

Annual Community Cleanups combine environmental education with fun activities and litter collection. Learn more.

Vegetable Garden

The Hub’s vegetable garden promotes food security, organic and sustainable farming practices, adaptation to climate change and agripreneurial thinking.

Community Outreach

The Hub hosts students from the Lesotho National Council of Women for computer and digital skills lessons.

Youth Internships

The Hub hosts internships in content production and provides internship opportunities for university students.

Content Creation

The Hub provides high quality photography and videography services by industry professionals, that also serve as hands on learning opportunities for students.

Stop Motion Animation

The Hub produces educational stop motion animated short films with social and environmental justice messaging. Watch the animations.

Artivism Music Projects

The Hub works with young musicians to write and record songs, create music videos that tackle human rights and other social-economic issues in Lesotho. Watch the music videos.

Artivism Music Events

The Hub hosts free entry open mic music events that encourage socially conscious songwriting. The events have also hosted several well known musicians.

Open Source Content

The Hub is creating open-source, multimedia educational content, all available as free downloads from our website. See and download our content!

Photography Exhibitions

The Hub has hosted several photography exhibitions of our members’ work in Morija, as well as had our work exhibited at Alliance Francaise de Maseru. See more.

• Skills & Soup participants attend the programming free of charge, making it accessible for children from vulnerable families.
• The Hub seeks to address a range of challenges in Lesotho, including youth unemployment, poverty and a lack of access to educational opportunities.

• Skills & Soup provides 2 meals per child per day, equalling 200 meals served each week.
• Daily highly nutritious hot meal includes protein, starch, vegetables.
• Daily highly nutritious take-home ration includes 2 loaves of locally baked fortified brown bread, peanut butter, boiled egg, fruit.

• “I think all the other life skills that you are offering the young learners is a huge asset to them, possibly more so than just academic learning which they seem to be bombarded with at school and yet what is missing is all the other essential life skills that they need to succeed in life – self-confidence, determination, self-belief etc. You could really tell the difference between the kids who have been coming to The Hub and those who have not. I was very impressed.”  – Leader of a Participatory Design Workshop at The Hub

• Skills & Soup provides after-school tutoring in IT, maths, English, science, technology, coding, mental well-being, and sign language lessons, as well as daily programming during school holidays.
• The Hub seeks to address a range of challenges in Lesotho, including youth unemployment, poverty and a lack of access to educational opportunities.

• 57% of Skills & Soup participants are female
• Skills & Soup works toward lowering the incidence of gender-based violence through life skills and mental health programming which educates participants about the definitions of sexual abuse and where to find help if they are being abused.
• Skills & Soup programming also emphasises gender equality, mutual respect and caring, and healthy coping mechanisms as ways of reducing the incidence of gender-based violence in future generations.

• The Hub seeks to address a range of challenges in Lesotho, including youth unemployment, poverty and a lack of access to educational opportunities.

• Skills & Soup participants attend the programming free of charge, making it accessible for children from vulnerable families.

• The Hub’s environmental education directly addresses this SDG.
• The Hub has eliminated single-use plastic from Skills & Soup catering by having participants bring their own reusable lunch containers.

• The Hub’s environmental education directly addresses this SDG.

• The Hub’s environmental education directly addresses this SDG.

• Through its various activities, The Hub aims to foster a community of young people who will become skilled, well-informed and outspoken citizens.

• The Hub is only as strong as its partnerships. As a donor funded project, The Hub partners with international and local NGOs to achieve all its programming.