Kenya
Who:
Blue Cross Kenya
Where: Kisumu, Kenya
Blue Cross Kenya Youth Programme aims at equipping young people with skills to delay the onset of drugs and teenage sex. It also aims at building a sense of responsible global citizenry among young people between the ages of 12 – 18 years old.
The programme mobilizes young people for action through clubs based in Kisumu Town’s major slums through which young people are challenged to address themselves to issues affecting them in the slums such as lack of better housing, environmental degradation especially garbage disposal and plastic menace, education for all (EFA), drugs and HIV and water. Blue Cross Clubs are also formed in primary and high schools to promote abstinence among young people and enable them grow into responsible and socially enabled citizens.
Kisumu Town is one of the third largest towns of Kenya. It is the major urban port of Nyanza Province, with one of the highest poverty indices in Kenya. Due to rising poverty levels Kisumu Town suffers unique social and developmental challenges:
- High Poverty levels
- High infant mortality rates due to malaria
- High HIV/AIDS prevalence
- Lack of clean and safe water for the low income earners
Blue Cross Kenya Youth Programme has been working with young people in the major slums of Nyalenda, Obunga and Bandani though football and educational sponsorship. We have also been working with kids on the streets to enable them go back to their homes and back to school. We work closely with a children’s home based in Kisumu called Kingdom Kids Rehabilitation Centre.
Learn More About Kenya...
BBC Country Profile
BBC Timeline of the History of Kenya
Lonely Planet- History of Kenya
World Factbook Overview of Kenya
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