@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDay of the Girl Child with Y&U, Friday 9 October: https://forms.youthandurbanism.org/public/VAMgTdhPDpitoVXgJsO7Zre_E87J-dgX
Hub in Mathare and online on Microsoft Teams, 14:00 to 16:30. Free. Theme 2026: End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls' Rights.
Day of the Girl Child with Y&U, Friday 9 October: https://forms.youthandurbanism.org/public/VAMgTdhPDpitoVXgJsO7Zre_E87J-dgX
Hub in Mathare and online on Microsoft Teams, 14:00 to 16:30. Free. Theme 2026: End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls' Rights.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate shocks elevate suicidal ideation among women caregivers, sharpest through long water-scarcity periods. A population-level finding, no individual account. No formal substitute exists for the care she holds. Water and food policy is mental-health policy. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
Internships at Youth and Urbanism: https://youthandurbanism.org/opportunities/internship
Apply for the January 2027 cohort by 30 November 2026. Ten departments. Unpaid, with a supervisor, a learning plan, a certificate and a reference.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialInternships at Youth and Urbanism: https://youthandurbanism.org/opportunities/internship
Apply for the January 2027 cohort by 30 November 2026. Ten departments. Unpaid, with a supervisor, a learning plan, a certificate and a reference.
Volunteer with Youth and Urbanism: https://youthandurbanism.org/opportunities/volunteer
Give 3, 6 or 12 months to youth-led work in Mathare and online: programmes, media and research. Ages 18 to 35 and professionals welcome. Unpaid.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialVolunteer with Youth and Urbanism: https://youthandurbanism.org/opportunities/volunteer
Give 3, 6 or 12 months to youth-led work in Mathare and online: programmes, media and research. Ages 18 to 35 and professionals welcome. Unpaid.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOxfam Kenya put water fetching in Mathare at two to five hours. Our documentation adds the rhythm: water comes once or twice a week, so the hours collapse into one lost day. The fix is supply frequency, not shorter trips. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOur Male Champions Forum runs as four forums reaching 100 men in Mathare, asking which parts of the care load they treat as a woman's job by default. Norms shift fastest when men question them in front of other men. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate and Care for Her runs 14 months: three outcomes, 22 activity streams, every stream read against the 8Rs care framework. A designed programme with a published map, not a run of events. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDid you know our drafted Bill proposes ten working days of paid climate emergency care leave and a National Care Climate Fund.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
Did you know our drafted Bill proposes ten working days of paid climate emergency care leave and a National Care Climate Fund.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialUN Women's 2023 working paper reports women and girls spend three times as much time on unpaid care, domestic and communal work as men, and work longer hours once paid work is counted. In Mathare that ratio settles who queues for water. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDocumented in Mathare in 2025: a woman leaving at 4am to be first at the only working water point after the floods. Two to five hours of fetching on the days water comes. Water is care infrastructure. Fund it as such. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialInternational Day of Older Persons. In informal settlements, elderly people cannot self-evacuate and need intensive care during disasters, and that care falls on women. Article 57 promises reasonable care. Section 6(2) of our proposed Bill would fund it. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialProlonged water scarcity, rather than a single storm, does the most psychological damage to caregivers. It compounds, and it drains the reserves needed to care for children and elderly relatives in the same weeks. A water crisis is a care crisis. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA 2025 BMC Psychology survey of 800 women in Nairobi's informal settlements found about 37 per cent with mild depression and 22 per cent with moderate. Scores were highest where eviction followed the flood. A measured climate cost. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate and Care for Her launched on 12 May 2025 at our offices in Mathare. The first thing agreed was documentation: who records, who monitors, where it is kept. We set out to prove the climate-care link, not assume it. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialYouth and Urbanism is a not-for-profit incorporated in 2022, working in Mathare, Kenya's second largest informal settlement. Our oldest team members are 27. We document the climate-care burden because we live where it lands. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialFundaciĆ³n Avina's Climate and Care Initiative says care and climate have been overlooked together in policy, programmes and research. In Sub-Saharan Africa women do 80 per cent of household unpaid care hours. We work that gap from Mathare. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
