363 Gardens Calls for Partners to Scale a Grassroots AI Skills Movement for Out-of-School Youth in Nairobi's Low-Income Neighborhoods

With scholarships, cyber café study time, and a six-branch ecosystem already in motion, the Nairobi-based platform seeks support to provide laptops and a permanent learning space for the next generation of African builders. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) June 20, 2026 - 363 Gardens, a Nairobi-based digital education and entrepreneurship platform, today called on donors, foundations, and corporate partners to help scale a grassroots initiative already underway in the city’s low-income neighbourhoods - equipping recent high school graduates who cannot afford college or university with practical AI and digital skills training that prepares them for income and employment in the AI economy.

The initiative, run quietly by the 363 Gardens team over recent months, identifies young people fresh out of high school who have no immediate pathway to tertiary education and offers them something different: a scholarship into practical, in-demand digital skills training - including AI tools, automation, and online income strategies - much of which is not yet taught in any formal college curriculum in Kenya.

“These are young people who did everything right - they finished school - and then hit a wall because there’s no money for the next step,” said Jimmy Osingo, the founder of 363 Gardens. “What we’re offering them is not a consolation prize. It’s a head start. Some of what we teach isn’t in any university syllabus yet. We are preparing them for where the world is going, not where it’s already been.”

At a Glance
Organisation: 363 Gardens
Founded: 2022, Nairobi, Kenya
Current Ground Work: Scholarships and cyber café study time for high school graduates from low-income Nairobi neighbourhoods who cannot afford college.
Immediate Need: Laptops and a permanent learning space - the team currently operates and trains remotely with no fixed premises
Seeking: Donor and partner support to expand the programme to reach more youth

Without a fixed training space of its own, the 363 Gardens team currently operates remotely - coordinating learning sessions and covering cyber café access time so that scholarship recipients have a reliable place to study, practice, and complete coursework. The approach is resourceful but limited: each student’s progress depends on continued access to a borrowed laptop or paid café hours, and the programme’s ability to grow is capped by the funding available to sustain it. “We have proven this works on a small scale, person by person, neighbourhood by neighbourhood,” the founder said. “What we are asking for now is the support to stop working around the constraints and start removing them - laptops these young people can call their own, and a space where this community can gather, learn, and build together.”

A Six-Branch Ecosystem Supporting the Mission
This grassroots scholarship work does not stand alone - it is rooted in and sustained by the broader 363 Gardens ecosystem, six interconnected branches built over the past three years that together fund, teach, and embody the platform’s mission:
Branch & Role in the Mission
363 Gardens (Core): The digital education and entrepreneurship platform at the centre of the ecosystem - home to the AI Affiliate Marketing Mastery Course and the community where students and graduates connect.
363Bot Studio : A WhatsApp and AI automation service for small businesses. Revenue from client work helps fund scholarships and programme costs, while also giving trained youth a real-world skill they can immediately monetise.
Riding the Dragon: A spiritual teachings and sound tools community that grounds the organisation’s work in purpose, resilience, and inner discipline - qualities the founder considers essential for young people navigating economic hardship.
33V Designs: A sacred geometry fashion line whose proceeds and brand presence contribute to the wider 363 Gardens identity and community-building efforts.
Living Field: A bio-resonance and energy technology initiative exploring wellbeing tools that support focus and resilience - relevant to young learners studying under financial and emotional strain.
The Sanctuary: A grounding and community space concept - the long-term vision for the physical learning hub the scholarship programme currently lacks, where students could gather, train, and build together in person.

“Each branch carries a piece of what we’re trying to build,” the founder said. “363Bot teaches us and our students how the AI economy actually works in practice. The Sanctuary is the physical home we don’t have yet, but it is exactly the kind of space this scholarship programme needs. Riding the Dragon and Living Field remind us that skills training without resilience and grounding doesn’t last. The six branches were never separate projects - they were always pieces of the same garden.”

363 Gardens is now inviting foundations, corporate social responsibility teams, impact investors, and individual donors to partner in expanding this work. Priority funding needs include laptops for scholarship recipients, a permanent or shared learning space in Nairobi, and continued scholarship and study-access funding to reach more youth in low-income neighbourhoods across the city. 363 Gardens operates from Nairobi, with its founder a member of Macmillan Memorial Library, where much of the organisation’s content and strategic work is developed. The organisation’s website and learning community can be found at 363gardens.com. “We are not asking anyone to fund a concept. We are asking them to help us give a laptop and a room to young people who have already shown up and done the work.”

About 363 Gardens
363 Gardens is a Nairobi-based digital education and entrepreneurship platform founded in 2020. Built across six interconnected branches - including its core education platform, the 363Bot Studio automation service, and the community-focused Riding the Dragon, 33V Designs, Living Field, and The Sanctuary initiatives - 363 Gardens trains African youth and entrepreneurs in AI tools, automation, and digital income strategies. Its current grassroots work provides scholarships and study access to high school graduates in Nairobi’s low-income neighbourhoods who lack the means to pursue college or university. Learn more at 363gardens.com.

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