Girls Who Print: Inside the Mombasa Screen-Printing Workshop
By Otieno Odhiambo · 22 July 2026 · 2 min read
What Girls Who Print — Mombasa, one of ArtCollect's own published causes, actually funds and for whom, using only what the cause's own published record states.
A note before the details: this is one of ArtCollect's own published causes, run by an organiser we've named on the cause page — not an outside program this desk went and investigated independently. Everything below is what that cause page itself states; nothing here is added on top of it.
Who runs it and what it's for
Girls Who Print — Mombasa is organised by Mombasa Arts Trust, funding a screen-printing workshop cohort of twelve girls at the coast, most of whom, per the cause's own description, had never held a print bigger than a school exam before joining. The premise is straightforward: screen printing is one of the cheapest ways to turn a drawing into income — one screen, one squeegee, ink by the litre — and the equipment is the actual barrier, not the skill.
What a donation is stated to buy
The cause publishes three tiers: KES 5,000 for one screen, hinge-set and degreased; KES 12,000 for a term of Thursday ink; and KES 45,000 for the bench press that's meant to stay with the workshop after the funded programme period ends. The published fundraising goal is KES 300,000.
What's planned next
The cause page states the cohort's first open-print day is planned as a public event, with tickets through this platform. As of this writing that event hasn't happened yet — this article won't invent a date or attendance figure for something that hasn't occurred.
Why this article won't say more than that
A real spotlight on a real workshop would include things this platform can't currently verify independently: specific girls' names and stories, exact attendance at sessions, photos from inside the workshop. Rather than write around that gap with atmospheric language that sounds like more than it is, this piece sticks to the cause's own published, checkable terms. If you want to see whether that KES 300,000 goal is moving, or read what future updates the organiser posts, the cause page itself is the place to check — that's exactly the point of publishing a ledger instead of a press release.
— The ArtCollect Desk