HIV AIDs awareness and testing door to door July 2025 Mukuru slums with our partner Ruben health center
Our recently training community facilitators in Central Kenya on Gender Based Violence concerns continue to be active in the community door to door and taking advantage of local forums to speak on GBV. Here James our community facilitator taking advantage of a local forum and is reaching out to a group pf men at Mathira […]
Our Peer Educators present awards to winners at today’s Football for Behavior Change. 1st Position Gitunduti FC, 2nd Gikumbo FC, 3rd Kanjuri FC, 4th Karatina University FC. Hongera Winners
When the presence of COVID19 was first announced in Kenya in March 2020, Youth Ventures Initiatives immediately carried out an awareness training on the disease and targeted its over 100 Peer Educators in areas where it works. Among those trained is Collins Mageto who is a Peer Educator at Mukuru slums, Nairobi. Immediately after the […]
Engaging young people in useful ventures like growing fruit trees and providing technical support is one way in which we are fighting alcohol abuse in Central Kenya. James our field staff here visiting Philip Gatheru at Gikumbo village to see how his fruit trees are doing while providing technical support to him too
On 21st September 2019 we held the Karatina Road Race. It was successful and we were able to sensitise the community particularly the youth on ways to reduce risk of alcohol and drug abuse as well as HIV. We had a medical camp and created awareness on asthma, diabetes, blood pressure and popularised better nutrition. […]
Hadale Wario reaches out to young women and girls at safe spaces at Mukuru slums mainly social halls or just outside these halls. She has observed crucial changes among the young women, for example, initially they were scared of going for family planning services. After talking with them and creating awareness on the various methods, […]
“I really do not know what to say, thanks to Youth Ventures Initiatives (YOVI)!” said Marion lately when we talked with her at Mukuru slums where she is working as a peer counselor with YOVI. She went on, ” I really love what i do as a peer counselor. I enable people change their behavior […]
John reaches out to adolescent girls in schools at Mukuru slums. He has come across girls who could not concentrate at school due to keeping bad company. He counsels such girls to avoid such company and many have turned around and are now focused at school and their school performance has improved a great deal. […]
Since she started reaching out to adolescent girls in schools at Mukuru slums age 10 to 13 years with behavior change messages, Gladys has observed changes among them. One of the changes is that they can now express themselves easily and articulate their issues and problems without fear. They ask questions often on issues that […]