Vital community education for a 'lost generation'

Thank you so much for donating to this project helping young people to break the poverty cycle with education and support following the impact of COVID-19 on their lives.  Without this help, they are open to exploitation and face a bleak future.

Over the last few months, groups who have participated in our 3 day business training courses earlier in the year, have been sending in their business plans and requesting resources for income generating projects they are planning.  The business training courses have provided them with knowledge, skills, information and a peer support network.  Youth groups who are registered and meet regularly find great support and encouragement in working together.  We provide groups with the resources they need to get their business up and running.

Members of ’16 riders youth group’ are very active.  They farm and have a tree nursery providing indigenous trees for sale.  They completed their business training on June 10^th and  they plan to rear goats for meat and also for the manure that they can use in organic farming.  They are preparing their business plans to request the goats as their start-up resource.

Members of Tendwet Crossed Self Help Group finished their 3 day training on June 4^th.  The members of this group are people living with a disability.  They work in crop farming and poultry and expressed their appreciation for the new skills and knowledge they gained from the training.  The group are mixed ages which gives support and encouragement to young and old.

Income generating resources provided are the actual products that groups request to set up.  Earlier this month, members of the Kipkoita Womens group in Belgut took delivery of cereals they need to open a cereals shop, Unifarm Entreprise Group got seed potatoes, fertiliser and herbicide to get started on potato farming and Ainamoi Youth group took delivery of 3 goats to get their goat rearing project started.

Follow up meetings are organised to bring the groups together after 6 months for feedback on progress, challenges, learnings and solutions to any issues or questions.  As all groups supported come together, they offer peer support to each other.  Youth groups benefit from the experience of meeting more established groups and the learnings exchanged from older members.

For example – Emittiot Mens Group in Kipkelion East – they completed a business training course in May to learn new skills.  They are a very active group with projects in tree nurseries, fruit farming and dairy farming.  They thanked Brighter Communities Worldwide for the training and they say ‘knowledge is power’.