Lenkisem Matanyok Youth Group

Sopa! (Hi!),
We are Thomas Lekanayia aged 20 years (member) and John Silankei, aged 22 years (Chairman) of the Lenkisem Matanyok Youth Group. Our Youth Group has been formed by young educated members of the community to address the problems that are affecting the whole community. These problems are to eradicate poverty by supporting education and fighting HIV/AIDS. The Youth Group was formed basically to spearhead development projects in the area.

These are our Youth Group's Aims and Objectives:

1. Promote the rights of the women, girl child and the less fortunate in the society;
2. Promote the awareness of HIV/AIDS menace;
3. Promote equal education for all;
4. Fight for the proper management of community resources;
5. Take measures to help to eradicate poverty;
6. Teach the community on other forms of investments;
7. Teach the people on the right skills of political participation;
8. Encourage conservation of wild animals;
9. Environmental awareness and preservation;

Our Youth Group is involved in the following Activities:

1. Adult education
2. Evening classes for children involved in looking after livestock during the day;
3. Drama groups in HIV/Aids Awareness;
4. Education fund to help those who can’t afford school fees, etc;
5. A microfinance Fund to help the Youth to start business;
6. Various visits to villages to help local people change their mentality regarding immorality, FGM, wife-beating;
7. Visits to the sick, the needy and old people;

Forthcoming Activities:

1. Building a community library and offices;
2. Fund-raising;
3. Poultry-keeping
4. Bee-keeping;

We hereby encourage other assocations and other youth groups to share with us and to contribute their ideas to enable our youth group to move forward.

We are just starting our own new website at http://lenkisem-matanyok.blogspot.com/
You can find out more about us there.

Please contact us here at Sema Kenya or at our website.
Ashe oleng! (Thank you!)