Our projects are centered around 30 youth groups that were selected through a rigorous process of tendering in an application that was scrutinized by YIKE’s field officers. Basing on the application, several groups were visited randomly to find out if they actually exist, and if they have activities that could be supported.

Since it’s inception in 2003, Youth Initiatives- Kenya has increased its support base from 8 youth groups in 2003 and 2004, to 18 youth groups in 2005, and close to 50 groups in 2010. The increase in the number of youth groups is due to the enormous success of YIKE in its first three years of operation, and YIKE’s increasing popularity among the youth in Eastland’s. Currently YIKE supports about six hundred individual youth, drawn mainly from the 50 youth groups.

YIKE supports the groups in form of:
1. Trainings
2. Equipment and material support
3. Community events
4. Youth Linkages and assistance
5. Policy advocacy activities and
6. Provision of ICT services through an information center
8. Linkage to financies through the youth desk project.