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Tel: +254 (020) 230 30 65

50622 00200, City
Square Nairobi, Kenya.

Executive Director
Charles Wafula – wafula.charles@yike.org
Cell: 0721 549 411

Program Officers & Coordinators
Benedict Kariuki – benedict@yike.org
Mugethi Gitau – mugethi@yike.org
Jacinta Atieno Otieno – jacinta@yike.org
Abel Kachu wa Sisungo – abel.kachu@yike.org
Caroline Akisa Oduma – caro@yike.org

Finance and Administration
David Kisabuli – david@yike.org
Anthony Gatonga Mugo – anthony@yike.org
Lorna Ruth Omutula Opindi – lorna@yike.org

Message from the Director

Welcome to YIKE’s interactive website.

This is a location for us to tell you what we’re doing to support youth initiatives in the country. Equally we have the opportunity to learn from you how we can partner to enhance the impact and outreach of this work.
Founded in 2003, YIKE has been at the forefront of bringing to fruition its vision of a society in which the youths are able to facilitate their own development. Hitherto, many youth groups, especially those that operate in Nairobi’s informal settlements have benefitted from our four programs which include Governance, Livelihoods, ICT and Health.
We believe that Kenya will not achieve its potential until the youths achieve theirs.
We believe that Kenya will not be socially and economically stable unless the youths are.
We believe that a different Kenya, where the potential of youths is unlocked through investing in them is possible.
Join us as we make this a reality.

Charles Wafula

Health

This program comprises of

1.1HIV/AIDS & BCC
This project focuses on prevention of new HIV infections among the youth in the urban informal settlements and rural areas and influencing positive behaviour change.

1.2Reproductive health
This is a project that focuses on the reproductive health needs of the young women/young mothers and adolescents in the urban informal settlements and rural areas.

1.3Malaria & TB
The Malaria and TB project focuses on awareness creation on how to prevent Malaria and TB. The project uses partners with likeminded organizations to enhance the distribution and uptake of Malaria and TB preventive and treatment services.

1.4WASH Project
Focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene projects like installation of toilets, water points etc

1.5Drug & Substance abuse
The project focuses on awareness creation to the youth in urban informal settlements and rural areas in Kenya on the effects of drug and substance abuse.

Livelihood

This program will have the following projects;
2.1    Capacity Building
The program deal with building skills in group leadership, Business Skills and personal leadership. The program also provided business grants as well as business advisory and consultancy services.

2.2    Youth Desk
Offers micro-loans to both group and individual youth businesses, offer business development and business consultancy. The Youth Desk also works on legitimising youth businesses into becoming legal and formal enterprises.

2.3    Business Challenge
Business Plan competition where youth submit their business ideas, get trained and later present to a jury. Seed capital is awarded to the first 6, based on the jury’s assessment. This is followed by mentoring program.

2.4    Micro Franchising
Works with girls aged between 16-19 on the aspect of micro-franchising where there is training and mentor-ship provided to run the initiative.

2.5    Recycling Project
This is plastic recycling project which will be run in a cooperative model where groups and individuals will be contributing plastic waste for recycling. The project aims at utilizing the economies of scale to earn more income for the youth.

Governance

The projects under this program will basically focus on the following areas

3.1    Advocacy & Lobbying
Here community dialogues/forums, events will be carried out to raise awareness of the target community/group on various issues.

3.2    Gender
Promotion of gender dimensions in all related youth developmental issues

3.3    Civic Education
Consciousness-raising of the general public on identified topical issues

3.4    Research
This project will seek to promote a culture of evidence-based intervention in project implementation.

Communication

The projects under this will include the following;

4.1    Resource Centre (Library, cyber café, games)
Offers recreational and edu-tainment facilities to youth and the community. The cyber cafe offers internet and typesetting services to the youth and community

4.2    ICT Training
The ICT training is done in partnership with Nairobits. The E-Learning training is open to youth in the community who are not under YIKE program. The training takes three months after which the students are awarded certificates upon graduation.

4.3    Communication/Branding
This is very important for the successful working of an organization. It is required at various levels and aspects in an organization both internally and externally. Communication ensures proper dissemination of information through our website, newsletters and also branding to create an identity for our organization.

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Account Name      :  Youth Initiative Kenya
Account Number  :  6697390014
Bank Name           :  Commercial Bank Of Africa
Branch                  :  Mama Ngina

About us

Youth Initiatives-Kenya (YIKE), a local Kenyan Non-Governmental Organization, works with thousands of youth in nearly 100 youth groups in slums throughout Nairobi. YIKE strives to create a future where youth are able to facilitate their own development. YIKE works in program areas of Youth Entrepreneurship and Microfinance, Youth Community Capacity Building and Mentorship, Grassroots community mobilization, Technology and Library Services, Lobbying, and Research. Continue Reading

Our Events

YOUTH DESK

The B smart group and the Victorious Youth Group participated in the Small and Medium Business Fair and Conference at the Kenya International Conference Center (KICC). The Victorious Youth Group from Kibera, which cuts and polishes bones and uses them use to make artifacts and jewellery before putting them in the market for selling. The other group that attended was the B-smart group that has a tailoring business. They make jeans (denim) trousers, shirts, and bags.

TRAINING AND RESEARCH

Over the last two weeks, two 1st year youth groups have been trained in team building, team cohesion and peace building initiatives. these teams are the unicorns Empowerment Youth Group from Huruma and the Kayaba Youth Association from Viwandani. Unicorns are involved in provision of security in the Huruma area, water vending and garbage collection while the Kayaba group is involved in water and sanitation initiatives and also garbage collection. these trainings take place over a period of three days, Wednesdays to Fridays. they are conducted by the Capacity building programs officer Jacinta Atieno with the help of assistants.

Resource Center

The interviews for course one 3 rd selection were contacted on dates 30/06/2011 at YIKE and we managed to interview 52 students, where by the number of ( boys : girls ) was 32:20 but only 30 students were chosen to enroll,15:15.
during the same interview, we did a survey with the interviewees to find out how they came to know about YIKE and it was found out that they got the knowledge from friends and relatives who have benefited from the program during previous intakes.

HIV and AIDS Program

The programme has engaged three (3) youth groups in carrying out community outreach activities in Mukuru and Kariobangi/Korogocho (KK). Community outreach events used participatory methodologies such as drama, skits, and puppetry to create awareness for the youth and the communities and also held peer education trainings in Dandora and Mukuru. A total of 5 community outreach events were held, with 3 in Mukuru, and 2 in Kariobangi/Korogocho. The two peer education trainings yielded peer-to-peer sessions with 510 youth participating.
There is distribution of condoms & IEC materials and referrals for VCT and STI treatments. , youth abstinence, safer sex and how to coexist with people living with HIV and AIDS were some of the topics being discussed.

FOOTBALL/SOCCER

On Saturday the 25th of JUNE, L.G in conjunction with GBS will be sponsoring Youths from YIKE to attend the football match between Harambee stars and southern Sudan at the Nyayo Stadium

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The Youth Desk

Deals with three things-Business financing through Micro-loans. The loans are for both Group businesses as well as individual youth group member businesses. So far the Desk has financed 15 individual and youth group businesses.
Business Advisory and Consultancy Services.
Provision of Market linkages for Youth Products and Services.

The Project is run by Benedict Kariuki and Felix Maina.

HIV/AIDS PROJECT

The HIV/AIDS Project aims to;
Contribute to the reduction of new HIV infections by increasing awareness about prevention and care in Nairobi’s informal settlements.
Enhance the promotion of behavior change among the youth through behavior change communication in Nairobi’s informal settlements.

This is achieved via the following activities;
Community outreach events for the youth through the use of participatory youth friendly media. This includes drama, songs and dance, and puppetry to covey messages on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Peer education training through refresher training on HIV/AIDS for 290 peer educators
Youth sports events through conducting 12 thematic sports events as part of youth to youth peer activities.

This project is run by
Abel Kachu, Dorcas Nyaben and Steven Odera.

Training and Research

Congratulations to the Nairobits/YIKE course one intake two on their graduation to be held on 17th June 2011.

Capacity Building: YIKE through its training seeks to build livelihood skills targeting the IGA (Income Generating
Activities)/small businesses which these groups have. The training also focuses on developing leadership as well
building team cohesion which is necessary for the youth group survival. There are also small grants which YIKE
has been offering towards sustaining and supporting the expansion of the groups’ IGA’s. This is usually given in
form of equipments or materials.

Lobbying and Advocacy: Since YIKE operates as an umbrella body of youth groups, from time to time YIKE has
taken up and lobbied for the adoption of youth friendly policies to be adopted by both the Local and Central
Governments.

The Youth Information Center

The youth information center was established out of the need from the youth to have a place where they can get information. The center gives all youth under YIKE and the community access to internet and other computer services. The youth are also offered basic ICT training, library services and recreational activities like board games and edutainment facilities.In addition, youth under YIKE are allowed twenty minutes free daily to surf the internet and do their mails.

Business Challenge Project

The Business Challenge Project is a competition. YIKE youth groups shall compete for a business grant and one year mentorship relationship with a Dutch financial company.
Participants shall submit their rough business idea. They shall then be thoroughly trained in three stages on business plan writing
This shall culminate in a grand business presentation day where candidates shall present and defend their plans before a jury/panel of experienced business people.
The three top plans shall win a grant and mentorship relationship.
All other candidates will come out of the process with a well-defined business plan – which will increase their chances for sponsorship.

Gender and governance programme.

With our partner UN Women, YIKE seeks to increase the number of youth entering and completing secondary schools. We seek to achieve this by making available information on existing opportunities so that the youths can choose who to approach in case they need fees. Government supported Secondary Education Bursary Fund (SEBF) is such an important opportunity for girls and boys in schools. The study therefore seeks to understand the degree in which gender responsive approaches have been used in the disbursement of funds in Embakasi, Kasarani and Starehe constituencies in Nairobi and to develop mechanisms and tools that would strengthen the application of gender responsive approach in all constituencies in Kenya. The project will involve a tracer study of those who have applied for bursary funds over the past 5 years and will involve participatory analyses with various stakeholders.

Finance and Administration Department

The objective of Finance & Administration Department is to assist  YIKE in achieving specific objectives by establishing and maintaining an efficient financial management and administration system.