by Collins Baswony | Feb 25, 2016 | Youth Empowerment
By Dr. George Kamau The Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development is currently in the process of reviewing the Kenya school curriculum. This is a great opportunity to create a cultural and religiously sensitive age appropriate sexuality education curriculum for...
![Y2Y: East African youth need education, employment and health!]()
by dswen | Aug 25, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
East Africa’s population is young. 64 per cent of the population – an estimated 251 million people are below age 25. Life is not always easy for them. We asked Kennedy Mambo Chande, Y2Y (Youth to Youth) Coordinator at DSW, to tell us about the challenges and...
by dswen | Aug 12, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
International Youth Day 2015 has as its theme youth civic engagement. As the UN rightly recognizes, involving young people in the decisions taken by governments and politicians is vital if national and international commitments are to be met and we are able to achieve...
by Peter Ngure | Jul 29, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Convening for the Financing for Development conference, in the middle of July leaders from all over the world were meeting here in Addis Ababa. There were many hot topics on the agenda; was about tax, illicit flow of money, gender and health financing, whether female...
![Y2Y: East African youth need education, employment and health!]()
by Renate Baehr | Aug 12, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
It’s not easy to be a young person living in Kenya today. Compared with adults, adolescents are at higher risk of illness and even death from pregnancy related complications, HIV infection, or other sexually transmitted infections. In addition, unintended pregnancy is...
