Youth Empowerment
This is a Kenya Vision 2030 flagship program under the Gender, Youth, and Vulnerable Groups sector of the Social Pillar. With Kenya’s unemployment rate reaching 40%, approximately 65% of whom are youth (ages 18-35)
The JCO seeks to have volunteers playing an integral role and actively participate in our model of “One Stop Youth Resource Center” to address their diverse and dynamic needs. The establishment of JCO is a unique response to challenges facing the youth such as inadequate capacity and access to ICT services, guidance and counseling on drugs and substance abuse, reproductive health, and HIV-AIDS prevention among others. Besides promoting and nurturing youth talent, the JCO serves as a platform for integrating services such as entrepreneurship and leadership training, library provision, internet services, games, community mobilization, and networking.
Our target youths are those who are out of high school, graduates, and school dropouts due to harsh economic backgrounds.
As a community-based organization, nothing is more important to us than meeting the individual needs of the various youths in our community. A resource center is a place where each member has the right to feel accepted, safe, and empowered. This is in recognition of their diversity, potential, value, and the role they play in the development of society.
The volunteers will have sustainable, vibrant, and meaningful engagements with the youth, giving them opportunities for innovation and invention for their self-realization and development, job creation, good governance, and a dream of a free society from drugs and substance abuse.
