by Howard Akimala | Sep 22, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Nairobi: Adolescence is a crucial stage of life and one that is challenging for most girls because of its physical and psychological changes. One of the major physiological changes in adolescent girls is menstruation. It is estimated that Kenyan adolescent girls lose...
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 Howard Akimala | Aug 12, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Kenya joined the rest of the world on August 12 to mark International Youth day. The theme for this year’s celebrations was “Youth Civic engagement” and sought to explore how the youth have engaged themselves in governance and political processes. Through a coalition...
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...