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HIV/AIDS behaviour change project |
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YIKE in partnership with GOAL Kenya is implementing an Awareness and Behavior Change Project targeting youth and most at risk populations (MARP's) in the informal settlement of Mukuru, Dandora and Kariobangi/Korogocho. The project's main objectives is to increase the uptake of VCT, Family Planning and STI treatment services among the youth in the target area. The project which started in March 2010 is scheduled to run until March 2011. The projects activities include holding community outreach events, Peer Education Trainings and Sporting Events.
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The organization has a youth information center, where the youth are offered basic IT training, a cyber cafe for youth and the community, library services and recreational activities like board games and edutainment materials. The center, which was established out of the need from the youth to have a place where they can get information also gives all youth under YIKE twenty minutes free daily to surf the internet and do their mails. |
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Youth Desk program works to extend Micro-loans to Youth Group small business. Apart from this the Youth Desk offers training on business management, business financial management as well as marketing. At the moment the Youth Desk is work with MYTO (Mathare Youth Talented Organization, Livity Unit Youth Group, Pamoja Ghetto Youth Group, Zingaro Percussion, Eagles Youth Group and Fahari Afrika.
Main sponsor for the micro credit fund is Citi Foundation, for more please visit: www.citigroup.com/citi/foundation/
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This is the main YIKE program, where youth in youth groups are empowered through variious phases and different interventions. We have training and equipment boost, community events, networking and linkages and lastly policy and advocay issues.
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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. |
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