| Posted: April 26 2005,03:25 |
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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
We have achieved much for the very
short time, Since last year through our programs in
schools Mostly public. This has been by offering
capacity strengthening / employment, behavior changes
& conflict resolution, counseling to drug addicts
which has been a great challenge to our youths.
We have also engaged schools, community and public at
large for greater participation in culture of peace
and non violence. Having recognized that peace starts
in within individual, we have mobilized same youth
groups and among them two are very active, after same
seminars with them. They are now a great challenge to
us because they have come up with their own ways of
approaching this issue.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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Financial constraints: We have not been funded since
2003 up to date. We are using our own money & most of
us
we are not employed. This has been through our own contribution
and mainly become we are not political. Deep rooted traditions:
The areas we are implementing our programs are really rooted on
traditions same are very weird. They believe that all kinds of
cattle are theirs & this has affected the surrounding communities.
They also believe that they have a right to graze anywhere. They
value cattle more than human being, ladies are assets, girls are paid
while in lower primary, ladies have no rights young person has no say
in the community & they are so united such that to break their
culture is not easy, land clashes every now & then, right now they
are still fighting & killing people of the surrounding tribes.
To persuade the area leaders has been very hard for us mainly
because we are young and we are not supposed to talk before the old.
The practice of FGM to our young girl and we really need our
young ladies enjoy their freedom.
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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We have conducted a number of activities and in all
activities
the word peace could not depart from our representations. We have
visited five public secondary schools and two primary schools between
last year mid and this year.
The issues have been HIV/AIDS, drugs and substance and
conflict resolution. All have been successful, the
feedback has been quite good, because individual
youths, same referred by their schools have come for
counseling mostly those who were or have been
suspended due to misconducts. We also had
environmental clean up and tree planting by youths in
& out of school. All these helps us in pursuit of our
vision of having a health, fulfilling & confident
future.
We have trained four youth groups for six months on
issues
pertaining HIV/AIDS, drugs & substances abuse, behavioral changes
conflict resolution. This groups are now training the community
on the same . We have also been meeting in our office at least once
monthly. 18th/03/05 we had an ant demonstration meeting with all those
groups we network with to stop same demonstration that had been planed
by same groups before having dialogue. We are not against
demonstration but to us there is a process. These looked like
revenge & the worst could be expected, so we tried to stop & it
was successful and all those problem we tackled through dialogue with
the C.A.C.C
(constituency Aids Control Council). Most of this demonstration turns to be destructive.
Priority domain of Actions:
(a)Free flow of information & knowledge
(b) Equality for culture & peace
Geographical Priority:
Rift Valley Province
Kajiado District
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
He should come up with youth centered approach toward
peace. Bearing in mind that youths are the most
resourceful if positively handled but most destructive
if negatively handled.
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
Came up with a plan for illiterate persons on
culture of peace and non-violence for they are the
ones who are mislead by that educated.
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
The issue of poverty to the most illiterate youths.
To emphasize on drug abuse which is a threat to our
young person
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Postal address of organization
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E-mail address of organization
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afriyouthorg@yahoo.com
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Website address of organization
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Free flow of information & knowledge
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Equality for culture & peace
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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Rift Valley Province
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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Kajiado District
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