Youth volunteer for Change (YVC)
Youth Volunteer for Change is a youth organization that provides a platform for empowering young people, women, and communities in large through community development work. YVC is a membership organization that exists of members from all walks of life, irrespective of academic status, creed, religion, nationality and political affiliation. It consists of young people from Kenya and other parts of the world.
YVC seeks to bring the youth from diverse cultures together by identifying and nurturing their talents, so that they can teach each other. YVC`s programs focuses on youth exchange programs that provide voluntary opportunities to Kenyan youth as well as intercultural learning from both Kenyan and youth from abroad. Being a voluntary organization YVC has the capacity of mobilizing international and national volunteers to participate in community development projects and give them chance to gain experience from those different challenging projects
Kenya
Empowering the youth and the community to became self reliant through creation of employment opportunity.
OBJECTIVES
To bring youth together, identify and empower their talent, to strengthen community involvement through participation in voluntary activities, awareness campaigns and environment protection.
To disseminate information to women and youth groups on micro finance/credit project.
To help address the problems of early pregnancy among young women through empowerment on reproductive health that might be conducted through seminars focused group discussion and health campaign
To collaborate with like minded partners in addressing challenges of informal settlement
To engage children in social, physical and psychological grow and moral) development. Especially among children in informal settlement areas
YVC is a membership organization that exists of members from all walks of life, irrespective of academic status, creed, religion, nationality and political affiliation
