WAYS WE HELP
Meaningful Work. Unforgettable Experiences.
Gears For Change Initiative is in the business of changing and shaping lives. The work we do at our Non-Profit Organization is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. We make sure our partners are empowered by creating opportunities for individuals and communities.
GENDER & DEMOCRACY
SDG 5: Gender Equality
Working with the community, we have been very keen and loud in fighting injustices in our quest for equality. We use the power of social media and local ground organizing where we create joint advocacy messages, create campaigns, create resources, participate in influencing opportunities, capacity growing workshops and access mentorship from senior women who are within this space.
We endeavour gender equality and we work to achieve this through advocacy, capacity growing and solidarity growing. We are grounded in intersectional feminism to encourage continuous impact towards our collective mission.
Project Activities
Participate in capacity growing workshops
Influence, co-create and implement campaigns
Share updates, best practices, and opportunities with the organization
identify and voice the key advocacy demands of our mission
Represent and influence key gender equality opportunities and spaces.
Key Achievements:
1) Successfully organized a Sexual Reproductive health rights event attended by 90 young people where we demystified Teenage pregnancies and provided access to information on available contraceptive methods that young people can explore and utilise.
2) Participated in various campaigns and Advocacy SRHR virtual events and conferences.
3) Organized a successful Menstrual Hygiene Day where we trained 100 Widows, Young mothers and women living with Disability on Gender Based Violence and Menstrual Hygiene Management. We thereafter donated Maize flour, Inner wears and Sanitary pads.
Learn more about our work by getting in touch with our team today.
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT – LEADERSHIP & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Target 8.6: Promote Youth Employment, Education, and Training.
Project Description:
The project aims to mobilize, organize and engage youth talents, ideas, and skills in self and community development activities. We aim to improve youth employability, support job creation and access labour market information to young people for economic independence.
Key Achievements:
We have partnered with Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project (KYEOP) in an event that trained about 100 young people on existing opportunities that they can anchor on. From there on, we have had numerous young people apply for opportunities and thus far we have about 5 young people who have successfully accessed scholarship opportunities at KYEOP. Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project (KYEOP) is a transformational project that aims to empower and uplift the wellbeing of the youth in Kenya by equipping them with essential training, internship, and business grant opportunities. This project is government ran and is funded by The World Bank. Today, we have about 5 youth who successfully awarded KYEOP scholarships.
We have linked up about 20 youth to MasterCard’s Young Africa Works project called “Niko Waks Program” that is run in partnership with KCB bank. The 20 young people went through a 3 month training on Hydroponics farming and in groups of two, will each access a loan of 1M KES to begin greenhouse farming.
We have also linked up young people to IEBC jobs. We had about 5 young people who conducted the interviews and were successful polling clerks at the Just concluded Juja By- Election.
We have about 15 young people employed at the Kazi Mtaani program.
We have a membership base of over 200 youth members.
Our organization generates up to 15 community outreach activities annually.
Our clubs' structure offers opportunities for over 20 leaders annually.
We endeavour to have over 70% of our members easily transition into the job market and higher learning institutions.
We are governed by a common constitution. In the spirit of democracy and to promote youth leadership, the members elect their secretariat. The Founder and Chairperson for the organization serves as the official representative of the organization.
PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
SDG 13: Climate Action
Target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
Project Description:
We recognize that no nation can achieve sustainable peace without managing the environment. Our Peace and Environmental Sustainability Project aims at reducing the Carbon Print as a response to the myriad of environmental concerns. These issues include air pollution, climate change and global warming, sustainable energy, land degradation (land pollution, desertification, and deforestation), soil erosion and conservation, over-exploitation of natural resources, and poor waste management. These issues are serious and if not addressed, will have devastating implications for present and future generations.
Project Activities:
Environmental Awareness and Advocacy
Conduct forums on environment management.
Conduct environment management sensitizations.
Create advocacy on climate change.
Key Achievements:
In partnership with Rotary Club Ruiru, we are planting 100 trees to mark World Earth Day at the Area Assistant Chief’s Camp on 24th April 2021.
In partnership with Foster Green Initiative, we planted 250 trees at Mutati Dispensary in Githunguri Constituency.
Equity Bank donated 3,000 trees to our area ward Sub Chief who later gave them to us to plant. Schools were the most beneficiaries of these trees.
Environment Conservation and Preservation:
Promote tree planting.
Conduct community clean-up activities.
Initiate waste management income-generating projects.
Train community on environmental management.
Initiate environmental livelihood activities.
Learn more about our work by getting in touch with our team today.