{"id":54,"date":"2019-03-06T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topkenya.com\/\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:36:58","slug":"top-centers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/top-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"il\">TOP<\/span> <span class=\"il\">center<\/span> is a training <span class=\"il\">center<\/span> where people can come and learn, acquire skills around some specific areas such as green walls, food upcycling, solving water pollution with bio-sand filters, medicinal herbs, technology such as maker\u2019s rooms and more.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 11 TOP centers in Kenya:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>to be completed<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TOP is made of TOP centers spread around the country gathering challenges, developing their own solutions (simple &amp; complex) and spreading TOP solutions that were developed in other TOP centers or found elsewhere. A TOP center is an attraction point: it attracts people, SMEs around, to learn new techniques (e.g. green-wall) or buy some products developed by the TOP center (e.g. Justus, farmer, is making a living selling organic plants in the tea plantations area). It creates circles of influence. The TOP center are either a very small business (e.g. woman from Bomet area who set up a dairy factory) or an organization such as a school (e.g. Hospital Hill School in Nairobi), or for instance the church in Gatanga (where Sebastian of YARD is active).<\/p>\n<p>TOP centers provide a platform for:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Developing &amp; spreading simple solutions (e.g. green-walls)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Developing start-ups based upon medium\/complex solutions, with the support of TOP experts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TOP center is a training center where people can come and learn, acquire skills around some specific areas such as green walls, food upcycling, solving water pollution with bio-sand filters, medicinal herbs, technology such as maker\u2019s rooms and more. There are now 11 TOP centers in Kenya: to be completed TOP is made of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/top-centers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TOP Centers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}