Welcome to

Fabulous Souls

THRIVE TO WORK HARD and NEVER GIVE UP

About us

Introduction

To work with young vulnerable people from the ages of thirteen to twenty five; support and prepare to meet the challenges of daily life through empowering and encouraging them to do their best in everything they undertake and become independent in action and thoughts.

To grow their self-confidence, social skills, discipline, responsibility, and empathy towards others providing a supportive and friendly environment for all to feel free and focus on brighter futures by encouraging leadership, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Our vision

  • 1. OPPORTUNITY
  • 2. GUIDANCE
  • 3. DETERMINATION
  • 4. HARD WORK
  • 5. UNDERSTANDING
  • 6. HONESTY
  • 7. ACTION

Testimonials

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Beginings

How we started

Founded in 2010 and reorganised in 2016 Fabulous Souls was birthed out of a passion for the suffering of the vulnerable in society, over several years. The organisation sets out to make an impact by achieving recognition, gaining awareness and respect and becoming a voice for the vulnerable members of our community in particular street children and their families. Fabulous Souls seeks to bridge the clear gaps in services and resources provided to children in need and vulnerable members of society. Based in Nairobi, Fabulous Souls seeks to extend its services across Kenya by not only providing basic needs such as food and clothing but by providing also, a more comprehensive long term accessible service for the vulnerable in society.

Fabulous Souls endeavours to achieve long term relationships with ours sponsors and hope our donors will stand by ‘Fabulous Souls’ throughout its journey of compassion by providing some of the most vulnerable people on our streets with a place that will give them a sense of belonging, providing hope for a better future that will make a visible difference.
We encourage individuals to question their own unique personal significance and purpose. Encouraging realisation of what one may intend or think about their contributions to society and how they can make a difference as responsible members of the organisation and the society.
We endeavour to provide the security and guidance necessary that develops well rounded individual talents, who think compassionately with strong personal characteristics in an environment that is friendly, enriched and supportive. We intend to go beyond the call of duty, ensuring that every individual achieves their full potential (and more) during their journey with us; and in doing so, ensuring our donors efforts manifest our vision to impact positive change.

In the course of a generation, we could significantly increase the proportion of skilled young people making it to a college diploma or becoming young entrepreneurs through working in partnership with private and corporate organisations to help the young people gain skills and knowledge in their areas of interest.
With the experience and expertise of our highly qualified partners, we aim to create good working relationships with the young people and the community as well as an atmosphere of positivity that supports and encourages individuals to find their voice and personal significance through a variety of learning styles. Learning is a continuous process and by working in partnership with every individual, we intend to know each one personally as they adapt to the ever changing environments.
The young people will be required and expected to devote time and energy to achieve their goals. Positive reinforcement and other learning methods will be used consistently to develop: self-discipline, self-esteem, self-confidence, team work, social skills, respect, understanding, empathy, etiquette and practices that are ethically and morally demanding.

We will emphasise the importance of active participation in their local communities and encourage freedom of speech, thought and expression. We will encourage each individual to see themselves as responsible, committed global citizens who are open minded respect their environment and empathise with others.
Our hope is that every individual will finally be able to take pride in their achievements and success in gaining qualifications or skills that will enable them to follow whatever productive path they wish in life.

Our work

Our vision

Manifestation

At Fabulous Souls, we believe that, by utilising skills and creativity whilst also highly considering the environment around us, a sustainable equilibrium can be achieved socially and environmentally. By using sustainable resources, skills and creativity, Fabulous Souls has set off on an endeavour to harness entrepreneurship and productivity by working with young people on our streets in the chokora project.

Street kids or "Chokora"; the Swahili word used to describe our young people, are a vast group of young people who occupy and reside in the streets of Nairobi. Our youth survive by begging, selling confectionary, working run around jobs for little money or food and picking through bins and landfill sites (without PPE) to earn a small living through recycling. There are other extreme means to survive such as stealing.
Kenya has in recent months banned plastics. The effect of plastics on the environment in Kenya is apparent for all to witness. The wider eco system, its rich wild life and astounding landscape has seen drastic negative shifts prompting a national ban. What happens to all the plastic and other non biodegradable and biodegradable waste products from human activity left in the environment and landfill sites?
This ambitious initiative seeks to dare to approach this issue through our youth programmes designed to educate, train and equip our youth to provide them with skills and opportunities for empowerment through waste utilisation.
In this partnership, we seek to focus on professionalism and entrepreneur skills by engaging our youth in an ambitious, high potential productive recycling project. We aim to provide our youth with skills and tools to create, produce, brand and market products collected from streets and landfill sites.
By working and cooperating with local councils, our aim is to produce unique artistically created street recycling bins, public ash tray bins, urinals, bus stops and sign posts to recycling bins and urinals. These useful landmark products representing Kenya banning plastic. Utilising qualified professionals to equip our youth, the project also seeks to explore recycling organic waste into useful products such as compost. Our youth will engage in publicly promoting the "Nairobi yetu ni Nairobi Safi" ("Our Nairobi is a clean Nairobi") initiative and will create artistically unique T-Shirts, hats, fashion accessories to merchandise. Our youth will benefit from gaining education, training and leadership skills. This project aims to empower and direct our youth into being Valued citizens of our world, whom are aware of our impact on the environment. We seek to positively transform our youths' images of self by transforming society's image of our youth. The project provides an opportunity for the wider society to be made aware and responsible for environmental issues through the work of our youth. The overall image of our youth being transformed from a negative to a positive inspirational story the public can learn from.
We are a strong team of like minded experienced individuals involved in various areas of industry and expertise; From tailors, to jewellery makers, artists to local farmers and youth workers to carpenters, IT technicians to musicians, welders, mechanics, beauticians, fashion and media insiders.
FS current projects and ideas are:

With dresses supplied from UK, ball gowns donated by our donors will be recycled, customised and reproduced by our young people who will market them to the wider public. Our qualified staff aim to train our youth in acquiring excellent skills for quality tailoring and clothes making, the use of sewing machines, marketing and branding. Our youth will also be involved in jewellery making projects utilising semi-precious stones infused into African inspired beading designed by our young people.
With bikes supplied from UK, bike maintenance and managing together with a bike kitchen to teach young people how to maintain the bikes also set up safety training courses for young people to learn how to safely ride the bike.
The studio equipment donated by our donors from the UK, will provide a platform for our youth to express issues experienced daily. From environmental issues faced in landfill sites, to social and educational ones, the youth will engage in public dialogue via pod casts, creative entertainment such as film, documentary, music and art production. Our youth will gain skills in technology and media production. Our youth will be trained in utilising social media in order to compete on the world stage and create business and entrepreneurship opportunities. Setting a recording studio to teach youth how to record music and have freedom of speech, also to set up a local radio program and station in Kibira run by the young people.
With financial assistance from the UK, to set up homes for street children who are homeless yet at school run by house mothers, currently unemployed to assist Red- Rose school and many other schools to encourage and assist the young people in a home environment to learn and develop into adults.
We have already started to supply to class eight students oxford mathematical sets whose parents cannot afford to supply them, sanitary towels For young girls and occasionally paying school fees for those who struggle yet so close to finish their secondary and primary education.
We are also aiming to start a program of providing new school uniforms through the school to replace current clothing that is torn dirty and been passed down through generation through families.

Our young people will benefit from health and safety training, first aid training, numeracy, literacy and technology training. Young people will be involved in apprenticeships with local businesses.
Other endeavours will involve a second hand shoe recycling project. Fabulous Souls also seeks to work with under privileged young women and mothers to produce organic agricultural produce such as eggs, chicken, fruits and vegetables.
The organisation also intends to work with economically disadvantaged school age children by encouraging students who have dropped out to take another shot at attending college/school—despite very long odds of crossing its finish line. Currently, Fabulous Souls has supplied candidates of a primary school; Red Rose Primary School in the heart of the largest urban slum in Africa; Kibera, with learning equipment compulsory for sitting their national examinations. Fabulous Souls is also working with the school's head teacher to improve personal conditions of pupils in need.
 Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs
Vadav Havel

Contact

We would love to hear from you if you have any ideas, projects, proposals or expereinces to share with us. The best way to get in contact is to use the contact form below. We will do our best to get back in touch with you within a couple of days.

Privacy statement

Introduction

Following the requirement for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, (GDPR), we have taken the opportunity to review and, where necessary, further improve our data processes and controls. Fabulous Souls (FS) has always taken privacy very seriously and GDPR won’t change the way that we actually use personal information; however we have updated our Privacy Notice. This provides detail explaining how we protect personal information we hold, how we comply with the GDPR, and the legal rights that individuals have in respect of the personal information we hold.

The Privacy Notice applies to all existing commercial agreements and services that we obtain from you personally (or from the organisation that you work for or otherwise represent). Please rest assured that there are no changes to any pre-existing trading terms and conditions, however if we do make changes to any of these in the future, then we will let you know.

GDPRREC3.1 - Privacy Notice (Tier 4)

1. Scope

All data subjects whose personal data is collected in line with the requirements of the GDPR.

2. Responsibilities

2.1 The Compliance Manager, in the role of Data Protection Officer, is responsible for ensuring that this notice is made available to data subjects prior to FS collecting/processing their personal data.

2.2 All Employees/Staff of FS who interact with data subjects are responsible for ensuring that this notice is drawn to the data subject’s attention and their consent to the processing of their data is secured.

3. Privacy notice
3.1 Who are we?

FS is a consultant undertaking professional services to Clients within the construction and property sector.
Our Compliance Manager and data protection representatives can be contacted directly here:

  • Email: info@fabuloussouls.co.uk
  • Telephone: 07864 373073
3.2 Personal data

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data is defined as:

“any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”. In order that we can process orders, administer your account, provide the goods and services and meet all contractual obligations, the following information might be requested:

  • Company name
  • Contact name
  • Job title
  • Business telephone number
  • Business email address
  • Mobile telephone number
  • Bank account information (when applicable)
  • Date of birth (when applicable)
  • Home address (when applicable)
3.4 Will FS share my personal data with anyone else?

We may pass your personal data on to third-party service providers contracted to FS in the course of dealing with you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfil the service they provide you on our behalf. When they no longer need your data to fulfil this service, they will dispose of the details in line with our procedures. If there is a requirement for sensitive personal data to be passed onto a third party we will only do so once we have obtained your consent, unless we are legally required otherwise.

3.4.1 Disclosure

We will not pass on your personal data to third parties without first obtaining your consent. We do use third party service providers for the purposes of equipment hire, waste disposal and provision of materials rental financing of equipment, and provision of services related to each individual project commission. They will receive your personal data for the following purpose as part of the processing activities:

Applicable Personal Data

  • Contact name
  • Contact phone number
  • Home address
  • Bank account information (when applicable)

Applicable Business Data

  • Company name
  • Contact name
  • Job title
  • Business telephone number
  • Business email address
  • Bank account information (when applicable)
3.5 Under what circumstances FS contact me?

Our aim is not to be intrusive, and we undertake not to ask irrelevant or unnecessary questions. Moreover, the information you provide will be subject to rigorous measures and procedures to minimise the risk of unauthorised access or disclosure.

We will contact you for correspondence purposes and/or detailed service provision. In terms of being contacted for marketing purposes FS would contact you for additional consent.

3.6 Consent

By consenting to this privacy notice you are giving us permission to process your personal data specifically for the purposes identified.

Consent is required for FS to process all personal data, but it must be explicitly given. Where we request personal data we will always tell you why and how the information will be used.

You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting the Compliance Manager and in such circumstance our Withdrawal of Consent Procedure will be applied.

3.6.1 Retention period

FS will process personal data for the duration of the contract and such time afterwards as industry standards require and will store the personal data in accordance with our Retention Period documented information.

3.7 Your rights as a data subject

At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:

  • You have the right to know exactly how your personal data will be processed by us. We commit to processing your data fairly, lawfully and transparently, details of which are set out in this Privacy Notice.
  • Right of access – you have the right to request access to the Personal Data we hold about you.
  • Right of rectification – you have the right to request changes to data we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Right to be forgotten – you have the right to request erasure of your data or the right to be forgotten completely, where there is no legitimate reason for your data to continue to be processed.
  • Right to restriction of processing – you have the right to request that processing of your data is restricted so that data remains stored but is not further processed by us.
  • Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
  • Right to object – you have the right to object to your data being processed, if the processing is for a legitimate interest without compelling grounds, or for direct marketing.
  • Right to judicial review: in the event that we were to refuse your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. You have the right to complain as outlined in clause 3.9 below.

All of the above requests will be forwarded on should there be a third party involved (as stated in 3.4.1 above) in the processing of your personal data.

3.8 Can I find out the personal data that FS hold about me?

At your request, we can confirm what information we hold about you and how it is processed. If we do hold personal data about you, you can request the following information:

  • Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation that has determined how and why to process your data.
  • Contact details of the Compliance Manager
  • The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
  • If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of FS or a third party, information about those interests.
  • The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed. Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
  • If we intend to transfer the personal data to a third country or international organisation, information about how we ensure this is done securely. The EU has approved sending personal data to some countries because they meet a minimum standard of data protection. In other cases, we will ensure there are specific measures in place to secure your information.
  • How long the data will be stored.
  • Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing. Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
  • How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
  • Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
  • The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
  • Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
3.8.1 What forms of ID will I need to provide in order to access this?

FS accepts the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested:

Passport, driving licence, identity card, bank card, birth certificate, utility bill (from last 3 months), etc.

3.9 Complaints

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by FS (or third parties as described in 3.4.1 above), or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the Compliance Manager and the supervisory authority.

The details for each of these contacts are:

Compliance Manager
Email: info@fabuloussouls.co.uk
Telephone: 07864 373073

Supervisory authority contact details

Joy Otieno
Director Fabulous Souls
PO Box 84,
Caldicot, NP26 3WS

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Tel: 03031231113

For any further detail regarding our GDPR processes and Personal Data we hold on you, contact the Compliance Manager.

Document Owner and Approval

The Compliance Manager is the owner of this document and responsible for ensuring that this policy document is reviewed via the internal audit and Management Review program.

This Privacy Notice is approved by the Board of Directors.

A current version of this document is available to all members of staff on request.