How the Campus Is Organised
Learning Lions is a non-profit that trains young adults from rural and refugee communities in Turkana County, northern Kenya, for digital work, on a residential ICT campus beside Lake Turkana near Loropio, in the Lodwar area. One integrated organisation runs it across several legal bodies: Learning Lions owns the ICT Center and the training, Startup Lions Assets Kenya holds the campus lease and runs campus services, and Lions Strength runs the community programmes and supports the girls' secondary school next door. A board of co-founders, directors and advisors sets direction, two directors run the operation, two domain boards coordinate the campus and the community work, and an independent committee watches over safeguarding, gender and quality. These pages tell a new staff member how that fits together and where to go.
1Mission, Vision and Values
What the Lions are for, in the organisation's own words, with the documents that hold the rest; the vision is being revamped.
2The Campus
What the campus is, where it is, who owns what, and the words we use.
3The Structure
The Lions ukoo, Startup Lions on top and three branches beneath it, Learning Lions, Digital Lions and Lions Strength; then how the SGB draws it: the boards, the two directors, the departments and who reports to whom.
4The SGB Board
The Strategy and Governance Board. What it is, who sits on it by role, what it decides and how often it meets.
5The Committees
The Safeguarding, Gender and Quality Committee, known on campus as the Gender and Welfare Committee, its two subcommittees, and the smaller committees formed as needed.
6The Campus Functions
ICT and the SAs, welfare, training, administration, Asha, the kitchen, housing and the other campus services, and where each one sits.
7Dira and Darasa
One organisation, one front door. Dira Portal is the campus centre every site hangs off; Darasa Hub is the learning side.
8Digital Lions
The fair trade digital agency on campus, where Lions work for clients around the world once they are trained.
9Loropio Girls Secondary School
The public girls' secondary school next door to the campus, known as Wakanda Girls, supported through Lions Strength, where TechDada mentors the students in digital skills.
10Volunteers and Digital Nomads
The people who come to the campus to give time or to work beside the Lions: who they are, where they live, how to apply, and what the papers have not yet defined.
11Campus Management
The department that runs the campus: the Senior Campus Manager, the management assistants, the ten branches and their leads, and where the housing and guest register will go.
12Human Resources
The shared people department: recruitment, contracts, performance, policies, welfare, grievances and discipline across every Lions entity, and who it works with.
13Finance
The shared money department under the Finance Director: accounting, procurement, the central store and reporting, how the budgets travel to the board, and Odoo.
14Safety and Welfare
One door for help on campus: the emergency and helpline numbers, safeguarding, Human Resources, and ICT support.