@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialVolunteer with Youth and Urbanism, apply here: https://youthandurbanism.org/opportunities/volunteer
Community mobilisers: go village by village with news of our trainings and clean-ups. Join any week, for 3, 6 or 12 months. Unpaid, ages 18 to 35.
Volunteer with Youth and Urbanism, apply here: https://youthandurbanism.org/opportunities/volunteer
Community mobilisers: go village by village with news of our trainings and clean-ups. Join any week, for 3, 6 or 12 months. Unpaid, ages 18 to 35.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOur Community Dialogues in Mathare run as four mixed-gender sessions, targeting 50 men and 50 women, using a Care Lens that covers community, environmental and emotional care. Mixed rooms are slower. Norms move faster in them. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOur first VCA contract ran twelve weeks, 1 July to 30 September 2022, for EUR 5,000. Generation Shapers Youth Group held it, and it was built around media and communications. On Mondays we show what it did. #VoicesForJustClimateAction #YouthAndUrbanism
A young father of two girls said it best on Friday: a 21-year-old and a 16-year-old are not a couple. That gap is power.
Register for Care and Support Day, 29 Oct: https://youthandurbanism.org/events/international-day-of-care-and-support
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA 21-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl are not equals. The age gap is a power gap. Under 18 is a child.
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A hard point from Friday: support only for teen mothers can read as a reward. Keep it, and reach girls before pregnancy too.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialSupport for teen mothers matters. It also has to reach girls before pregnancy, so it never reads as a reward.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialRecognise is the first of the 8Rs in our Theory of Change, and the load-bearing one. A care burden nobody counts cannot be redistributed, and no ministry budgets for a category its own documents never mention. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialHivos's VCA partner in Mathare from 2022 to 2025 was Youth and Urbanism, a youth-led organization rooted there. Our program record is on youthandurbanism.org. Write to [email protected] #VoicesForJustClimateAction #YouthAndUrbanism
Friday's ask: talk to parents, teachers and pastors, not only to girls. The adults are half the problem and half the fix.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialGirls learn their rights, then go home to adults who disagree. Friday's ask: bring parents, teachers and pastors in too.
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Here is something most climate plans miss: twenty alliance meetings, twenty X Spaces, fourteen Girls Outreach sessions and more, across three outcomes of our programme.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialHere is something most climate plans miss: twenty alliance meetings, twenty X Spaces, fourteen Girls Outreach sessions and more, across three outcomes of our programme.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
A card on Friday asked why organisations work with girls and leave out boys. A girl who says no needs a boy who hears it.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialTeach girls to say no. Teach boys to hear it. Friday's room wanted both in one programme, not two.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialTime poverty is poverty too. UNRISD records that extreme climate events and scarce firewood and water raise women's care work and worsen time poverty. In Mathare, hours at the water queue are hours not earning. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialVoices for Just Climate Action was six organizations: Akina Mama wa Afrika, FundaciĆ³n Avina, Hivos, SDI, SouthSouthNorth and WWF-Netherlands. Five worked in Kenya. Hivos was our partner, in Mathare. #VoicesForJustClimateAction #YouthAndUrbanism
Friday's room told us girls should lead this conversation, not organisations like ours. Mostly right. We amplify, then step back.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialShould girls lead this conversation, not organisations like ours? Mostly yes. Girls lead. We amplify, then step back.
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