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.
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| 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.
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| Life skills training for young girls |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Photo with students after a session |
“Together we can make our voices heard”
For more information,
contact:
Youth Changers Kenya
P.O Box 27745-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel: 0770-406528
Face book: Youth Changers Kenya
Email: youthchangerskenya@gmail.com
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