This social enterprise incubator program is a practical learning space where youth gain hands-on technical skills and the knowledge required to run profitable, sustainable enterprises. In each incubator, young people gain hands-on training in fabrication, hairdressing, clothing production, and multimedia, while also learning what it takes to run a business. Entrepreneurship skills like customer service, bookkeeping, and marketing help the youth hone their craft and build successful businesses.
What makes Norviwo Innovations unique is that the products and services created by the youth in training generate real income, which is reinvested back into the program to fund training, equipment, and materials. This model sustains the incubators while ensuring every participant leaves with practical skills, business knowledge, and the confidence to create opportunities for themselves and their communities.
Norviwo Fabrications is an incubator for metal and woodwork. Here, youth learn practical skills in fabrication while producing real products such as picnic benches, tables, chairs, and bookshelves. The space is designed as both a workshop and a business training ground; giving young people hands-on experience in craftsmanship, customer service, and managing production from start to finish.
Norviwo Hair is an incubator for natural hair styling and barbering. It trains young people to master professional techniques in hair care while teaching them how to run a service-based business. Youth practice directly with clients, learning the discipline of time management, client relations, and quality service; skills they can take into their own businesses or employment after graduating.
Norviwo Clothing focuses on dressmaking, screen printing, and embroidery. It’s a creative incubator where youth build both technical and business skills in the fashion and apparel industry. From designing and sewing to branding and bulk orders, participants gain real exposure to how clothing businesses operate while producing items that can be sold to sustain the program.
Norviwo Multimedia is an incubator and studio for podcasting, video, and music production. It provides young people with a platform to learn creative media skills and also practice entrepreneurship in a fast-growing industry. Youth get to develop, produce, and share content while learning the basics of media business; marketing, audience engagement, and managing creative projects with professionalism.
Norviwo Innovation, a thriving social enterprise incubator, training 200 youth each year in fabrication, hairdressing, screen printing, podcasting and video production by 2027
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In August we hosted our Fresh Start Ceremony and it was one of those days that reminded us why we do this work. We celebrated exciting new beginnings of youth who once spent years on the street without hope and purpose.
We piloted art and music therapy during Wellness Wednesday and now street youth come attend outreach more often, stay engaged, and look forward to finishing projects and learning new dances.
Staff and volunteers recently underwent a professional development workshop where we’ve learned to respond with more compassion, understand trauma better, and support each youth in a way that helps them truly thrive.