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Impact stories · Kano
Creativity reaching every community.
TAFTA’s Kano Learning Train takes creative and entrepreneurial skills into urban and rural communities, with a deliberate focus on women and young people.
The state story
Skills, access and opportunity—closer to home.
In Kano, access is designed to travel. Mobilisers and programme teams bring the Learning Train through communities, local government areas, schools, faith spaces and CBT centres before connecting learners to supported practical sessions.
The programme has created routes into scriptwriting, sound design, stage lighting, animation and arts entrepreneurship—alongside job-readiness support that helps learners present their skills to employers and clients.
women reported trained by Cohort 10
supported learning-centre locations
Figures combine TAFTA’s published Kano programme review for Cohorts 1–5 with its later Cohort 10 update on women trained.
Read the original TAFTA report
Current programme leadership
Abubakar Balarabe
Programme Manager · Kano ChapterThe Kano programme manager oversees training and learning activity, identifies challenges affecting delivery and keeps programme stakeholders and partners informed through regular updates.
What changed
Progress people can feel.
TAFTA combines digital learning with practical training, community outreach and partnerships that connect skills to real opportunity.
The Learning Train travels
Outreach has moved through Hotoro, Madobi, Mariri, Dorayi Chiranchi and other urban and rural communities.
Women at the centre
Mobilisation through women-led organisations, lecturers and student networks has widened access for women entering creative and entrepreneurial work.
Practical creative training
Learners have taken part in sound design, animation and stage-lighting sessions that translate online knowledge into hands-on confidence.
Preparing for work
CV writing and job-placement sessions teach participants how to present experience, apply for roles and prepare for interviews.
Inside the programme
How the state model works.
The original state report records the locations, participant support and partner network behind the headline numbers.
Learning and practical locations
The state report records supported activity at Saadatu Rimi University of Education and Kano State Polytechnic around Matan Fada and Abdullahi Bayero Road.
A Learning Train without boundaries
The programme travels through urban and rural communities, local government areas, schools, mosques, churches and CBT centres to meet learners where they are.
Participant welfare and mobilisation
Learners received light refreshments during sessions, while community awareness was strengthened through mobilisers, media advocacy and local campaign materials.
Partners recorded in the report
Progress is a shared effort.
MOPPANAll Care Charitable Foundation · ACCFSOGHAMWomen-led NGOsLecturer mobilisersStudent mobilisers
Where the learning travels
A network built around learners.
Kano PolytechnicSaadatu RimiHotoroMadobiMaririDorayi ChiranchiKumbotso
How support works
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Community mobilisers bring information and introductory learning into local spaces across Kano.
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Learners continue at supported centres with equipment, connectivity and practical facilitators.
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Mentorship, CV support and project experience help translate new skills into work and enterprise.
From the archive
The work, in pictures.
Original photographs from TAFTA’s published Kano state report.
Story in focus · Amatullah Muhammad Jamiu
A storyteller finds the structure for her voice.
Amatullah had long imagined writing stories for Kannywood but struggled to organise characters and ideas. After meeting the TAFTA Learning Train and studying scriptwriting, she developed the craft and confidence to join the writing and performance team for a Kano TALP-X production.
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