Youth Changers Kenya(YCK): October 2015

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

GIRL POWER

This year's theme for the International day of the girl child was" The power of the adolescent girl vision 2030" .Youth Changers Kenya spent time with young vibrant girls who proved that indeed investing in adolescents is a worthwhile venture.

Take a sneak pic at some of the lovely photos;

Action one two go"

Groundie

Energizer

See this booklet with cool stuff

Young girl help us here

Run Run Run

Time to mingle, mingle

What is?

Come on lets do this

3D image girls are just girls having fun

Friday, 9 October 2015

Mum and Dad this is what you should know!

After having a discussion over the weekend with young people here are some of the

remarks the young people would wish their parents to be in touch with and know.

The remarks were collected from a mixed school. One of assumptions we cannot continue

having is the fact that young people are not engaging in sex. Over 80% of the questions

that students share during our discussions are related to sexuality in particular sexual

intercourse. To some of us these remarks might not surprise us to others this might be a

great opportunity for us change certain things especially parenting strategies and

interventions used in addressing youth challenges.

All this remarks are anonymous

#What young people want parents to know#

"I am in my early twenties and I have been in a relationship for 5 years with a man I love so much.

Am sexually active and not ready to loss him I would want to reduce the frequency of engaging in

sex. I cannot stay around him without doing it".

"I want my parents to support my decisions and allow me to make personal choices".

"My parent should be open and not warn me without giving me good reasons".

"I would appreciate if my parents would help me nurture my talent".

"Our parents should know that our generation needs their concern they should create time and speak to us about sexuality. They should not expose us to money because this is a tool not a destination".

"WE need more of their time than money".

"My parents should know that I have been having sex for the past four years".

"Parents need to trust young people and know that their responsible and able to make informed decisions".

"Please believe in my dreams “My parents would not allow me to talk a certain career path am better off in arts than academics. Support me in this”.

In order for us to ensure effective communication parents need to be friends with their

children, encourage dialogue, and talk to them diligently and openly about the different

developmental challenges. Lastly, parents have no choice but to style up and know the

emerging trends among young people this enables parents to have information about the

changing dynamics among the youths. Act

Reach out to us on: youthchangerskenya@gmail.com

Monday, 5 October 2015

Youth Changers Kenya Profile

ABOUT YCK

Youth Changers Kenya (YCK) is a community based organization.YCK promotes sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) through advocacy, provision of information and services through referrals, mentorship & leadership training and psychosocial support among young people.

YCK works with different partners and stakeholders to realize its goals and objectives. The main target is the young people and marginalized groups (women), with special focus on young girls from tea plantations areas in Limuru.

Our Vision

YCK envisages a community where everyone has access to sexual and reproductive health and rights information and SRHR needs and choices of young people are respected.

Our Mission

YCK is committed to promoting high quality, high impact and gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health and rights information for vulnerable groups especially girls from tea plantations and marginalized groups aged (15 – 30 years) in Limuru area through capacity building, lobbying & advocacy and strategic partnerships.

Core Values

The following are guiding values of YCK

Strategic Partnership
Impact
Quality Information
Creativity and Innovation
Transparency and Accountability
Participation and teamwork

Strategic Goals

Our programme focus is aligned to the following themes:

Access to SRHR information
Adolescents and youth aged 15 – 30 years of age as primary clients.
Advocacy to counter barriers that limit access to sexual and reproductive health services and information.
Provision of information to marginalized groups and vulnerable people with a focus on young girls in tea plantations.
Participation in the International, regional and National advocacy to influence policy change.

Guiding Principles

Gender and youth equity are considered an integral part of all policies and programmes
Maintaining the effectiveness and quality provision of SRHR Information.
Non-discrimination on grounds of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, HIV status or in any other aspects subject to local law
Meaningful Youth Participation among young people.

Programmes

Advocacy

Participation in Grassroots, National, Regional and International meetings to promote SRHR among young people with a key focus on girls from un reached areas (tea plantations) and in ICPD program of action and POST 2015 processes.

Participation in Conference for Population and development support from Youth Coalition

Mentorship and leadership

Training of young people on SRHR , basic life skills and economic empowerment.This will be done through provision of consistent mentorship and coaching programmes among young people in Limuru area, to enhance their leadership capacity and ability to make informed choices and decisions.

Life skills training for young girls

Boys chat

Psychological support

Establish a mental health project that will address psychological challenges affecting youth include; Suicide, depression, self esteem, peer pressure and Substance abuse by providing individual and group counseling.

Group counseling

Peer education Academy

The academy programme aims at equipping young people with information and skills on Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights and other life skills to support their peers.

Through this programme YCK believes peers will develop transferable work-related skills such as communication, advising, counseling and presentations skills, in addition to leadership and teamwork experience and be able to reach out to fellow peers.