How we Started

INTRODUCTION OF THE YOUNG PEOPLES FORUM

The Young Peoples Forum (YPF) is membership organization of the young people between the ages of 15-35 years. It was founded in June 2008 with a group of 5 young people who believed that they could change the face and the fate of Eastland area of Nairobi and make it a better, clean, progressive, informed and transformed community where young people are pace setters and central in pursuit of positive transformation.
The group has experienced enormous growth since and currently has over 120 members. In the bid to reach as many young people as possible, YPF convenes a forum dubbed ‘Sunday Assembly’ on a weekly basis that brings all members together to discuss, brainstorm and plan positive activities that could assist in realization of our common dream of raising a responsible and transformative generation of young people.
The Sunday Assembly also sets the activities and agenda that are implemented by YPF on a weekly basis, making the group visibly constructive and actively involved.

Our Objectives
§ Create gender awareness, understanding and practise among young people.
Facilitate the imparting of positive values through training and role modelling.
To promote peace and peaceful co-existence among communities through trainings, outreach programmes and social activities
§ To seek viable means that would build young people’s capacity for societal leadership.
To initiate projects and creative thinking that would guarantee economic empowerment of young people living in low income areas.
To network with other organizations and corporate entities on developmental issues
Research and share knowledge and information on social, economic and political issues
To promote and enhance awareness, knowledge practice and respect of social justice and human rights
To promote the culture of inclusiveness and popular participation of young people in processes of governance
To harness the potential of young people that is manifested in talents, sports, creative thinking and innovations through identification and development.
§ To celebrate the young people’s achievement and contribution to our community and country

Membership Scope

Currently, membership representation covers the eight civic wards of Kamkunji Constituency and plans to expand to other parts of Eastland and subsequently the rest of the country. Our organization applies the policy of gender balance in its recruitments drive and organizational leadership.



Our Values
The Young Peoples Forum is founded and grounded on inherent values that guides all the members and applies to our organizational activities and projects. YPF believes that good values are what we need to be able to touch the hearts of many and influence the restoration of hope, role modeling and conscious of our young generation. Some of our values include;
§ Equity and Equality.
§ Tolerance and meritocracy.
§ Popular participation and inclusiveness.
§ Honesty and integrity.
§ Gender sensitivity.
§ Passion and Professionalism
§ Action learning and knowledge generation.
§ Respect for the rule of law.

Our Immediate Activities
Currently The Young Peoples Forum is undertaking or planning to conduct the following activities
• Organize young people’s training on Social Audit
• Train 50 community young leaders to act as ambassadors of peace and environment awareness campaign.
• Conduct outreach programmes to all the existing wards in all Constituencies in Eastland and create a network of organizations to sustain such programme
• Organize and conduct constitutional and legal clinics education programmes to raise the civic awareness of our community
• Create avenues of resource mobilization and economic investments and empowerment among the group members
• Organize a clean up, setting up the community dustbins and beatification initiatives
• Work with partner organizations in and outside the community and the country
• Raise youth consciousness in the Eastland on their stakes, role and responsibilities in community and national development.