EVENT
BENEFICIARIES
SPONSORS
DATE
EXPECTED
OUTCOME
VALIDATION
Peace Training
YPF Members
CREAW
Early December
Trained Peace Ambassadors
Clean Up, setting up of beatifications, road side dustbins
Eastland Community i.e. from Garrisa Lodge to Section III
YPF Members to conduct it but NEMA and Ministry of Environment to be approached for sponsor
2nd week of December
Clean Environment, informed community and responsible dumping
Recruitments and Expansion
Eastland Community and Like Minded individuals, organizations etc
YPF members
On going
Partnership and membership increased and wide areas covered.
Training On Drug and Substance Abuse
The Community
YPF organizes but will approach NACADA for support
Mid December 2008
Increased number of sensitized youth and platform formed for rehabilitation and counseling
Setting Up of A panel to identify talents and skills
YPF , Community and the Country
YPF to offer leadership, working with a technical volunteer team
On going
Increased Engagement, exposure and utilization of gifts, talents and skills
Training On CDF Social Audit
YPF and the Community
CDF SOCIAL AUDIT
Pending Confirmation Date
Increased knowledge and engagements in utilization of the devolved funds
Legal Aid Awareness Week
YPF Members and Community
University of Nairobi Law Student YPF Member
Last week of November
Increased level of basic rights and law awareness
Bonding and Team Building
YPF Members and invited people
YPF members and CAVi
First week of December
Build team work, synergized group dynamics and celebrating of organization
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Membership and Meetings.
The Young Peoples Forum is an organization that is non- religious, non-partisan, non sectarian and open to all members of the communities, tribes, religion, race, culture, countries, and political thoughts among others.
Currently we meet in Eastleigh Section III, at the Sun City Stop Over in Eastland side of Nairobi. We meet every Sunday between 2.00 PM to 6.30 PM. The Sunday Assembly offers a platform in which we dialogue, plan weekly activities, receive reports of individuals’ initiatives and undertakings that aims to improve our community.
We also use the Sunday Assembly to induct new members, get to know their plans for the group, areas of strength, profession, abilities and general experiences in life. Thus every Sunday offers us with an avenue in which our strength and purpose is renewed and ever individual is inspired through experience sharing.
Our membership has grown and will continue to grow. Currently we are 120 members and registration is still open. Once registered members are required to undertake a change activity within the area where they live and also to reach other people and share with them the values, mission and vision of the Young Peoples Forum.
We insist on individual obligations, duties and responsibilities towards the group, community and country. All members are required to carry themselves wherever they are with due respect and heartfelt consideration to other members of the society.
We are non violent and strive to maintain high standard of morals.
Currently we meet in Eastleigh Section III, at the Sun City Stop Over in Eastland side of Nairobi. We meet every Sunday between 2.00 PM to 6.30 PM. The Sunday Assembly offers a platform in which we dialogue, plan weekly activities, receive reports of individuals’ initiatives and undertakings that aims to improve our community.
We also use the Sunday Assembly to induct new members, get to know their plans for the group, areas of strength, profession, abilities and general experiences in life. Thus every Sunday offers us with an avenue in which our strength and purpose is renewed and ever individual is inspired through experience sharing.
Our membership has grown and will continue to grow. Currently we are 120 members and registration is still open. Once registered members are required to undertake a change activity within the area where they live and also to reach other people and share with them the values, mission and vision of the Young Peoples Forum.
We insist on individual obligations, duties and responsibilities towards the group, community and country. All members are required to carry themselves wherever they are with due respect and heartfelt consideration to other members of the society.
We are non violent and strive to maintain high standard of morals.
Our Destiny, Our Believe and Our Promise
Our Destiny, Believe and Pledge
We believe that our destiny is intertwined and we know that we are the change we have been waiting for and this is our time; to make real the desires of our generation.
YPF is an ideology, far beyond an organization. We look upon no one, we want to begin the change and if we don't complete it, we know someone will be inspired and complete it. We understand we have a long journey, but we are confident that we shall move.
We want to inform and transform our generation. We want to tap talents and develop it. We want to appreciate the abilities in all of us. We want dialogue with and listen to one another. We want to restore hope and sense of purpose. We want to create jobs through innovations and creative thinking. We want to be one another’s brothers and sisters. We are out to find the lost, inspire the least and empower the last.
YPF is determined. We are not going to be down trodden by lack of finances, we are not going to be slaves of our in abilities, and we are not going to subscribe to selfishness. We intend to share knowledge, disseminate information and remind ourselves of our individual responsibilities to the community in which we live.
We will not wait for the government yet we will also ask them and ensure that they play their role. We are going to be the voice of the people through forums and offering avenues to air views.
We are reformers, leaders and will lead by example. We will play our part before expecting someone to play theirs. We pledge not to fight one another. Instead we shall fight tribalism, nepotism, and all the enemies that Africa and human being grapples with.
We pledge to use our education to lighten the paths of one another. We pledge to use our gifts, talents and discoveries to make better our communities and inspire hope.
We will mentor our young ones and be a role model to them.
We will clean our environment and make it green and fresh.
We will fight drug abuse and make our youth free from them
We will fight poverty and create avenues for economic empowerment
We will embrace new ideas and alternative thinking to enable us forge a future that is friendly to all
We will have values that generations and generations may pride to follow.
This is who we are. But we are conscious and present to the fact that it will require me and you to make this happen. We are better together, so wherever you are and whoever you may be, just have some confidence that if you did your part, this nation, this continent and this world wills never be the same again. Change is just around the corner.
YPF remains an ideology, practice it, exercise it or experiment it wherever you may be with the people you daily meet, interact or stay with.
From the Kitchens to Fields, Palaces to Ghettos, Lands to Airs, change is always hanging up there, around there, waiting for you.
Be part of this change. BE A YPF
We believe that our destiny is intertwined and we know that we are the change we have been waiting for and this is our time; to make real the desires of our generation.
YPF is an ideology, far beyond an organization. We look upon no one, we want to begin the change and if we don't complete it, we know someone will be inspired and complete it. We understand we have a long journey, but we are confident that we shall move.
We want to inform and transform our generation. We want to tap talents and develop it. We want to appreciate the abilities in all of us. We want dialogue with and listen to one another. We want to restore hope and sense of purpose. We want to create jobs through innovations and creative thinking. We want to be one another’s brothers and sisters. We are out to find the lost, inspire the least and empower the last.
YPF is determined. We are not going to be down trodden by lack of finances, we are not going to be slaves of our in abilities, and we are not going to subscribe to selfishness. We intend to share knowledge, disseminate information and remind ourselves of our individual responsibilities to the community in which we live.
We will not wait for the government yet we will also ask them and ensure that they play their role. We are going to be the voice of the people through forums and offering avenues to air views.
We are reformers, leaders and will lead by example. We will play our part before expecting someone to play theirs. We pledge not to fight one another. Instead we shall fight tribalism, nepotism, and all the enemies that Africa and human being grapples with.
We pledge to use our education to lighten the paths of one another. We pledge to use our gifts, talents and discoveries to make better our communities and inspire hope.
We will mentor our young ones and be a role model to them.
We will clean our environment and make it green and fresh.
We will fight drug abuse and make our youth free from them
We will fight poverty and create avenues for economic empowerment
We will embrace new ideas and alternative thinking to enable us forge a future that is friendly to all
We will have values that generations and generations may pride to follow.
This is who we are. But we are conscious and present to the fact that it will require me and you to make this happen. We are better together, so wherever you are and whoever you may be, just have some confidence that if you did your part, this nation, this continent and this world wills never be the same again. Change is just around the corner.
YPF remains an ideology, practice it, exercise it or experiment it wherever you may be with the people you daily meet, interact or stay with.
From the Kitchens to Fields, Palaces to Ghettos, Lands to Airs, change is always hanging up there, around there, waiting for you.
Be part of this change. BE A YPF
How we Started
INTRODUCTION OF THE YOUNG PEOPLES FORUM
The Young Peoples Forum (YPF) is membership organization of the young people between the ages of 15-35 years. It was founded in June 2008 with a group of 5 young people who believed that they could change the face and the fate of Eastland area of Nairobi and make it a better, clean, progressive, informed and transformed community where young people are pace setters and central in pursuit of positive transformation.
The group has experienced enormous growth since and currently has over 120 members. In the bid to reach as many young people as possible, YPF convenes a forum dubbed ‘Sunday Assembly’ on a weekly basis that brings all members together to discuss, brainstorm and plan positive activities that could assist in realization of our common dream of raising a responsible and transformative generation of young people.
The Sunday Assembly also sets the activities and agenda that are implemented by YPF on a weekly basis, making the group visibly constructive and actively involved.
Our Objectives
§ Create gender awareness, understanding and practise among young people.
Facilitate the imparting of positive values through training and role modelling.
To promote peace and peaceful co-existence among communities through trainings, outreach programmes and social activities
§ To seek viable means that would build young people’s capacity for societal leadership.
To initiate projects and creative thinking that would guarantee economic empowerment of young people living in low income areas.
To network with other organizations and corporate entities on developmental issues
Research and share knowledge and information on social, economic and political issues
To promote and enhance awareness, knowledge practice and respect of social justice and human rights
To promote the culture of inclusiveness and popular participation of young people in processes of governance
To harness the potential of young people that is manifested in talents, sports, creative thinking and innovations through identification and development.
§ To celebrate the young people’s achievement and contribution to our community and country
Membership Scope
Currently, membership representation covers the eight civic wards of Kamkunji Constituency and plans to expand to other parts of Eastland and subsequently the rest of the country. Our organization applies the policy of gender balance in its recruitments drive and organizational leadership.
Our Values
The Young Peoples Forum is founded and grounded on inherent values that guides all the members and applies to our organizational activities and projects. YPF believes that good values are what we need to be able to touch the hearts of many and influence the restoration of hope, role modeling and conscious of our young generation. Some of our values include;
§ Equity and Equality.
§ Tolerance and meritocracy.
§ Popular participation and inclusiveness.
§ Honesty and integrity.
§ Gender sensitivity.
§ Passion and Professionalism
§ Action learning and knowledge generation.
§ Respect for the rule of law.
Our Immediate Activities
Currently The Young Peoples Forum is undertaking or planning to conduct the following activities
• Organize young people’s training on Social Audit
• Train 50 community young leaders to act as ambassadors of peace and environment awareness campaign.
• Conduct outreach programmes to all the existing wards in all Constituencies in Eastland and create a network of organizations to sustain such programme
• Organize and conduct constitutional and legal clinics education programmes to raise the civic awareness of our community
• Create avenues of resource mobilization and economic investments and empowerment among the group members
• Organize a clean up, setting up the community dustbins and beatification initiatives
• Work with partner organizations in and outside the community and the country
• Raise youth consciousness in the Eastland on their stakes, role and responsibilities in community and national development.
The Young Peoples Forum (YPF) is membership organization of the young people between the ages of 15-35 years. It was founded in June 2008 with a group of 5 young people who believed that they could change the face and the fate of Eastland area of Nairobi and make it a better, clean, progressive, informed and transformed community where young people are pace setters and central in pursuit of positive transformation.
The group has experienced enormous growth since and currently has over 120 members. In the bid to reach as many young people as possible, YPF convenes a forum dubbed ‘Sunday Assembly’ on a weekly basis that brings all members together to discuss, brainstorm and plan positive activities that could assist in realization of our common dream of raising a responsible and transformative generation of young people.
The Sunday Assembly also sets the activities and agenda that are implemented by YPF on a weekly basis, making the group visibly constructive and actively involved.
Our Objectives
§ Create gender awareness, understanding and practise among young people.
Facilitate the imparting of positive values through training and role modelling.
To promote peace and peaceful co-existence among communities through trainings, outreach programmes and social activities
§ To seek viable means that would build young people’s capacity for societal leadership.
To initiate projects and creative thinking that would guarantee economic empowerment of young people living in low income areas.
To network with other organizations and corporate entities on developmental issues
Research and share knowledge and information on social, economic and political issues
To promote and enhance awareness, knowledge practice and respect of social justice and human rights
To promote the culture of inclusiveness and popular participation of young people in processes of governance
To harness the potential of young people that is manifested in talents, sports, creative thinking and innovations through identification and development.
§ To celebrate the young people’s achievement and contribution to our community and country
Membership Scope
Currently, membership representation covers the eight civic wards of Kamkunji Constituency and plans to expand to other parts of Eastland and subsequently the rest of the country. Our organization applies the policy of gender balance in its recruitments drive and organizational leadership.
Our Values
The Young Peoples Forum is founded and grounded on inherent values that guides all the members and applies to our organizational activities and projects. YPF believes that good values are what we need to be able to touch the hearts of many and influence the restoration of hope, role modeling and conscious of our young generation. Some of our values include;
§ Equity and Equality.
§ Tolerance and meritocracy.
§ Popular participation and inclusiveness.
§ Honesty and integrity.
§ Gender sensitivity.
§ Passion and Professionalism
§ Action learning and knowledge generation.
§ Respect for the rule of law.
Our Immediate Activities
Currently The Young Peoples Forum is undertaking or planning to conduct the following activities
• Organize young people’s training on Social Audit
• Train 50 community young leaders to act as ambassadors of peace and environment awareness campaign.
• Conduct outreach programmes to all the existing wards in all Constituencies in Eastland and create a network of organizations to sustain such programme
• Organize and conduct constitutional and legal clinics education programmes to raise the civic awareness of our community
• Create avenues of resource mobilization and economic investments and empowerment among the group members
• Organize a clean up, setting up the community dustbins and beatification initiatives
• Work with partner organizations in and outside the community and the country
• Raise youth consciousness in the Eastland on their stakes, role and responsibilities in community and national development.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Who are We?
The Young Peoples Forum (YPF) is a true story, an ideology and an organization, depicting the urge of the young people to be the real change of the community in which they live. It is an initiative that was founded by a group of 5 young people from Kenya, who believed that in all of us as human being lays a noble ability, gift and rare passion that can change our nation and forge a greater value system in which our future can learn and draw inspiration. We believe that every human being can and should live beyond the worries and premises of having good houses, more jobs, more wealth and self sustenance. We believe that we are all created to inspire change and make life better. And this is what we are out to do.
YPF saw the unhealthy and dirty environment, state of unemployment and idleness of youth, increased crime rate, uninformed youth population, unavailability of social justice, the infringements on human rights, the neglect by the government, the poor state of infrastructure and the hopelessness that hanged around the Eastland Community of Nairobi and decided not to wait but to start doing something; however small, to improve livelihoods and restore hope.
Armed with the passion to be the change agent, YPF is determined to reach as many young people as possible and organize them into but not limited to change agents through training, information dissemination, role modeling, mentorship, talent identification and development, environmental preservation, job creation through creative thinking and innovations, societal conscious on human rights and social justice, individual contribution to the welfare and good of our communities, offering a plat form for dialogues and peace developments.
The YPF is a family where every young person is appreciated and their noble abilities, professions, knowledge and talents are harnessed, shared and developed to full potential. We look into being powerful and influential leaders that will make our nation and continent rise from the periphery of neglect, self destruction, inequality, tribalism and disunity. We intend to light up our nation, and we believe that someday the world will be happy and transformed because of this humble beginning that intend to nurture.
We are better together. And we believe that someday, change will come to Kenya, to Africa and to the world. And while we are beginning small and equally aware that we may not get there as a people, we believe that we will inspire somebody or some nation and that eventually, one day our dream will come to pass. We are taking this initiative not that we benefit as people but that someone may find it an option to do what is good for the world’s common good.
So, The YPF is an ideology and a summon that calls upon all the young people: illiterate and literate, rich and poor, gifted or not, to do something from wherever they are to make better their generation and pave the way for the generation to come.
Membership is open to all. You don’t need to be physically available, not even being in Kenya or Africa, all you need is to start doing something constructive in pursuit to improve the lives of others, with the little that you have including time, knowledge, information, organizational skills among others.
So as you join YPF, you are signing up into starting a life project that you will be remembered of as your life contribution to the community in which you lived in. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Mother Teresa, Patrice Lumumba, Wangari Maathai among others did their part to make this world better. They did so by self sacrifices and knowledge that man has to live beyond self. This is what you too can do or be. Start the journey with faith and in the final analysis it will be completed by you or by somebody else.
The YPF is guided by the following values;
§ Equity and Equality.
§ Tolerance and meritocracy.
§ Popular participation and inclusiveness.
§ Honesty and integrity.
§ Gender sensitivity.
§ Innovations and alternate thinking
§ Passion and Professionalism
§ Action learning and knowledge generation.
§ Respect for the rule of law.
Some of our objectives are
§ Create gender awareness, understanding and practise among young people.
Facilitate the imparting of positive values through training and role modelling.
To promote peace and peaceful co-existence among communities through trainings, outreach programmes and social activities
Promote sense of unity and brotherhood
§ To seek viable means that would build young people’s capacity for societal leadership.
To initiate projects and creative thinking that would guarantee economic empowerment of young people living in low income areas.
To network with other organizations and corporate entities on developmental issues
Set and practise values that can will increase inclusive participation, dialogue, knowledge of individuals’ rights and responsibilities and create means to end individualism, crimes and any other enemies that wrestles the mankind.
Research and share knowledge and information on social, economic and political issues
To promote and enhance awareness, knowledge practice and respect of social justice and human rights
To promote the culture of inclusiveness and popular participation of young people in processes of governance
To harness the potential of young people that is manifested in talents, sports, creative thinking and innovations through identification and development.
§ To celebrate the young people’s achievement and contribution to our community and country
We welcome your opinions and support. Our call is to find one another, develop a unity of mind and purpose and make our lives to be of meaning to our time and time to come. We vow to make it happen, because we are determined to live beyond self.
Yours Faithfully,
signed
OULU O. PAUL
Convenor and Founder YPF
YPF saw the unhealthy and dirty environment, state of unemployment and idleness of youth, increased crime rate, uninformed youth population, unavailability of social justice, the infringements on human rights, the neglect by the government, the poor state of infrastructure and the hopelessness that hanged around the Eastland Community of Nairobi and decided not to wait but to start doing something; however small, to improve livelihoods and restore hope.
Armed with the passion to be the change agent, YPF is determined to reach as many young people as possible and organize them into but not limited to change agents through training, information dissemination, role modeling, mentorship, talent identification and development, environmental preservation, job creation through creative thinking and innovations, societal conscious on human rights and social justice, individual contribution to the welfare and good of our communities, offering a plat form for dialogues and peace developments.
The YPF is a family where every young person is appreciated and their noble abilities, professions, knowledge and talents are harnessed, shared and developed to full potential. We look into being powerful and influential leaders that will make our nation and continent rise from the periphery of neglect, self destruction, inequality, tribalism and disunity. We intend to light up our nation, and we believe that someday the world will be happy and transformed because of this humble beginning that intend to nurture.
We are better together. And we believe that someday, change will come to Kenya, to Africa and to the world. And while we are beginning small and equally aware that we may not get there as a people, we believe that we will inspire somebody or some nation and that eventually, one day our dream will come to pass. We are taking this initiative not that we benefit as people but that someone may find it an option to do what is good for the world’s common good.
So, The YPF is an ideology and a summon that calls upon all the young people: illiterate and literate, rich and poor, gifted or not, to do something from wherever they are to make better their generation and pave the way for the generation to come.
Membership is open to all. You don’t need to be physically available, not even being in Kenya or Africa, all you need is to start doing something constructive in pursuit to improve the lives of others, with the little that you have including time, knowledge, information, organizational skills among others.
So as you join YPF, you are signing up into starting a life project that you will be remembered of as your life contribution to the community in which you lived in. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Mother Teresa, Patrice Lumumba, Wangari Maathai among others did their part to make this world better. They did so by self sacrifices and knowledge that man has to live beyond self. This is what you too can do or be. Start the journey with faith and in the final analysis it will be completed by you or by somebody else.
The YPF is guided by the following values;
§ Equity and Equality.
§ Tolerance and meritocracy.
§ Popular participation and inclusiveness.
§ Honesty and integrity.
§ Gender sensitivity.
§ Innovations and alternate thinking
§ Passion and Professionalism
§ Action learning and knowledge generation.
§ Respect for the rule of law.
Some of our objectives are
§ Create gender awareness, understanding and practise among young people.
Facilitate the imparting of positive values through training and role modelling.
To promote peace and peaceful co-existence among communities through trainings, outreach programmes and social activities
Promote sense of unity and brotherhood
§ To seek viable means that would build young people’s capacity for societal leadership.
To initiate projects and creative thinking that would guarantee economic empowerment of young people living in low income areas.
To network with other organizations and corporate entities on developmental issues
Set and practise values that can will increase inclusive participation, dialogue, knowledge of individuals’ rights and responsibilities and create means to end individualism, crimes and any other enemies that wrestles the mankind.
Research and share knowledge and information on social, economic and political issues
To promote and enhance awareness, knowledge practice and respect of social justice and human rights
To promote the culture of inclusiveness and popular participation of young people in processes of governance
To harness the potential of young people that is manifested in talents, sports, creative thinking and innovations through identification and development.
§ To celebrate the young people’s achievement and contribution to our community and country
We welcome your opinions and support. Our call is to find one another, develop a unity of mind and purpose and make our lives to be of meaning to our time and time to come. We vow to make it happen, because we are determined to live beyond self.
Yours Faithfully,
signed
OULU O. PAUL
Convenor and Founder YPF
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