The training program is at the centre of Sarakasi’s activities and is split into four levels of ascending skill. The first level involves outreach training in acrobatics and dance to young people on a weekly basis living in informal settlements and low income neighborhoods, mainly in and around Nairobi. At the second level, training takes place at the Sarakasi Dome through daily sessions and workshops for mostly (approx 150) young adult trainees. It involves performance as well as social development and life-skills training. The third level of training features professional performers who, having risen above the initial two stages and are deemed ready to take on local and international stages. The fourth and final level involves the selection and training of the professional performers to serve as trainers at the outreach level. Through the years hundreds of artists have benefitted from this program. Since January 2010 the training, capacity building and performance programs also involve young adult blind and visually impaired musicians and deaf acrobats and dancers.