363 Gardens Seeks Partners to Scale AI Skills Training for Out-of-School Youth in Nairobi

NAIROBI, Kenya - June 26, 2026 - PRLog -- 363 Gardens, a Nairobi-based digital education and entrepreneurship platform, is calling on donors, foundations, and corporate partners to help scale a skills-training program for recent high school graduates who lack the means to pursue college or university.

The program identifies young people with no immediate path to tertiary education and provides them scholarships into practical digital skills training — including AI tools, automation, and online income strategies — much of it ahead of current university curricula 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, founder of 363 Gardens, an AI Marketing Agency. "What we're offering is a head start into where the digital economy is going."

Current State

• Organization: 363 Gardens, founded 2022, Nairobi, Kenya
• Current operations: Scholarships and subsidized cyber café study time for high school graduates in low-income Nairobi neighborhoods
• Primary constraint: No fixed training facility; the program runs remotely, with student progress tied to borrowed laptops and paid café access
• Funding priorities: Laptops for scholarship recipients and a permanent or shared training space in Nairobi

"We've proven the model works, student by student," Osingo said. "What we need now is the capital to remove the constraints we've been working around — devices students can own, and a space where they can train and build together."

Supporting Operations

The scholarship program is backed by a broader set of ventures under the 363 Gardens umbrella, including 363Bot Studio, a WhatsApp and AI automation service for small businesses whose client revenue helps fund scholarships and gives trained youth a marketable skill they can monetize immediately. Additional ventures in design, wellness, and community-building contribute revenue and brand presence to the organization's broader operations.

"363Bot shows our students how the AI economy works in practice, not just in theory," Osingo said. "The rest of what we've built exists to support that core mission — training young people in skills the market actually needs."

The Ask

363 Gardens is inviting foundations, corporate social responsibility teams, impact investors, and individual donors to fund three priorities: laptops for current scholarship recipients, a permanent training space in Nairobi, and continued scholarship funding to reach more youth across the city's low-income neighborhoods.

"We're not asking anyone to fund a concept," Osingo said. "We're asking them to help us give a laptop and a room to young people who have already done the work."

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