UK YOUTH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL KENYAN COUNTERPART.
Posted by African Press International on May 28, 2012
ODHIAMBO DICKSON reporting from KISUMU,KENYA
YOUTH from United Kingdom {UK} are partnering with a section of youth from western Kenya region with an aim of volunteering in helping to identify the problems facing the locals.
The partnership under an organization known as Volunteer Services Oversees {VSO} – Jitolee under the Britain’s Youth Action will enable ten youth from United Kingdom to work closely with 9 youths from Kisumu and Kakamega alongside national volunteers on a 12 week program with a range of community Based organizations.
Speaking during a meeting held recently to brief the two teams at Kisumu Simba Club on the Project, VSO-Jitolee Project Supervisor Lydia Radido said they will be working within several Community Based Organizations in Kisumu
during the period.
She said some of the organizations which have been identified are Family Health Options Kenya, Kisumu Medical Education Trust, and Child First among others.
“Both teams from the UK and Kenya will be expected to do a social Action Project after the twelve weeks and the projects are supposed to address and try solve the challenges that they have identified facing their communities,” She said.
She said some of the areas the youth will look at are health, Nutrition among others.
The Program Supervisor said the project also aimed at unlocking potential through flexible and creative exchanges developed to meet the needs of particular communities with the areas it being piloted.
Youth Action is a global volunteering pilot program which supports young people from all backgrounds to make a real difference to some of the world’s poorest people.
This new initiative was launched by the Britain Prime Minister David Cameron in March 2011, and is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).
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