I visited the Postal Corporation of Kenya to see, first-hand, the transformation taking shape there.
Having spent much of my career in the ICT sector, and having worked alongside PCK over the years, it was a genuine joy to witness the tide beginning to turn.
PCK is finding its feet again, the fruit of deliberate reform and steady advisory support. It is positioning itself as Kenya's last-mile connector, reaching into every corner of the country in a way few other institutions can.
But reform is only words until you see what it means for a person. And within PCK, I found it.
At the Jitume Digital Media Factory, I met the future.
Picture a young photographer who has the eye but not the camera.
A designer with the ideas but not the software.
An editor who knows they are good but has never had a room or a first client.
Here, they walk in with the talent they already have and get access to the tools and the community to turn it into a living. From first shoot to first paying client.
What moved me most was the order of things.
Here, you learn to earn before you are asked to own.
For a young person watching the cost of everything rise, that order matters. It changes who gets to begin.
This is one piece.
The second piece is #PostaPay. With it, that young creator has a way to get paid.
And as the work grows toward e-commerce, the third piece, they will have a marketplace to sell to. Not just in their town, but across the country and beyond.
Skills, payment, and a place to trade, all beginning to sit under one roof. The pieces coming together. That is what it means to build an ecosystem. The creative economy truly at work.
Indeed, where there is a will, there is a way.
An old institution renewed, and through it, doorways opening for our young people.
@Posta_Kenya #BETA #DigitalEconomy #CreativeEconomy #Jitume
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