This work has advocated for, and analytically discussed, strategies for engaging the youth in Kenya through empowerment, education, and employment. There are persistent risks and challenges faced by Kenyan youth and the country’s growing youth bulge will only exacerbate that state of affairs. Giving considerable priority to the development and implementation of policies, along the lines advocated here, can have a major impact on engaging the youth for their own positive personal development as well as for the country as a whole. Idle youth, when coupled with their sense of marginalisation and hopelessness, is a ticking time bomb not only for Kenya but for all developing countries where such a state of affairs exists.
Empowerment is both an end and a means. Just because all of the conditions of empowerment are not in place in Kenya, it does not mean the society cannot empower young people to help bring those conditions about.
Education is the next important area for engaging the youth and for youth development. In fact, youth access to relevant education and training is also entrenched in the 2010 constitution.
The final key area of youth engagement and development is employment. Having been sufficiently empowered or not, and having accessed education and training or not, the youth still need to find jobs.
OUR IMPACT
WHAT WE EMPOWER
Economic Empowerment
How our youth should work to create wealth…
Political Empowerment
All the things we do to organize ourselves and to make decisions…
Cultural Empowerment
Everyday things such as food, language, clothing, spiritual beliefs, and ideas…
Societal Empowerment
Everything people do when they live, work, and play together…
National Empowerment
A nation having the power to make decisions for itself.
Our Vision
A just, equitable and progressive society in which young people fully enjoy social, economic and political rights
Our Mission
To provide a platform to harness and nurture young people through informed, innovative and value driven approaches for personal, community and national development
Our Values
Encourage them to follow their passions and share with them success stories of youth who worked hard and fought to achieve the successes.
Our Goal
Commitment to empowering youths in the Siaya County, points to the county manifesto