Provide Job Skills to Kenyan Slum Youth

 Dear friends and supporters,

Today Global Giving is matching a portion of every donation made to our projects. Shauri Yako Community Youth Support Cente is trying to raise $3000 to provide free family planning services, reproductive health information and condoms to youth living in the Shauri Yako and Manjengo slums for six months. Can we ask for your support or your help getting the word out? As a small charity funded entirely by individual supporters, we want more people to find out about our project.

Suggested Facebook Post:

Can you help or spread the word? Youth in the slums of Shauri Yako and Manajengo, Kenya are experiencing significant, growing rates of unplanned teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The HIV/AIDS rate is on the rise in youth 14 to 20. Significant problems like sexual abuse, prostitution as a means to earn an income are not uncommon and human trafficking is a reality. Yet there are no health service providers in Shauri Yako right now, and no health focused government or international aid support to our community.

With your help, local charity SYSC will introduce critical reproductive health care services for youth in these slums. 

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Suggested tweet if you use Twitter:

Small community charity in Kenya needs your help to deliver reproductive health education to you. Teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDs rates rising.

About our Project:

With the $3000 in support that we are raising, SYSC will:

• Help reduce the rates of sexual violence, sexually transmitted diseases and increase family planning
• Meet the right of youth to reproductive health services, so they may feel safer, empowered by information and make informed decisions
• Reduce gender-based discrimination and violence and improve human security

SYSC has made arrangements to partner with the Family Health Options Centre in Nyeri town, and will second an individual for the project’s six-month duration as a Health Educator. This individual will be responsible for:

• Providing twice monthly individual and group counselling at SYSC community centre
• Training volunteer peer-to-peer educators to lead outreach and the dissemination of condoms and printed educational materials within the community, including at schools, churches and local youth gatherings (note that mentors will be awarded a small honorarium to cover their expenses/opportunity costs of their time)
• Partnering with SYSC’s staff lead, who is a trained HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases outreach worker, to mobilize and facilitate community events:
• Two monthly community events at SYSC’s centre
• Additional organized events local schools and churches

Why will this Project be Successful?

• Because the project will tackle real and significant community problems that are otherwise going unaddressed
• Because the community has championed the project and is united around its success
• Because SYSC can build on its past experience and success providing reproductive health care services
• Because SYSC will partner with a local public health organization to increase the effectiveness of its efforts
• Because education initiatives can be built into SYSC’s existing programs to increase reach and impact

Thank you so much for your help.

Joe Mwai

Chair of the Board