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Our Mission
To build and strengthen peaceful interactions within the society through youth empowerment training, awareness creation, advocacy, and collaborations.
Our Vision
To emerge as a decentralized model organization tapping into the energies of individuals in peacebuilding.
Our values
Our core values are the principles that guide the internal and external actions of PAK and drive our accountability to each other and our stakeholders. We are inspired and aspire to fully live the values of Peace, Love, and Unity.
Our History
The organization was started in February 2012 as a brainchild of youth from various institutions of higher learning in Kenya and the Kenya Administration Police Service, who offered patronage to the initiative. Since its inception, the organization has endeavoured to grow as a formidable player in Kenya’s peacebuilding and youth empowerment sector. We are currently implementing seven projects under our unique program titled Peace Ambassadors Kenya (PAK) Program: Mobilizing, Organizing, Empowering, Engaging, and Celebrating Kenya Youth.
Our Theory Of Change
If we acknowledge that the youth are today’s leaders
Then mobilize and organize them into youth action groups, we can then provide them with a platform for personal development and self-reflection.
If we can expose the youth to global and local societal challenges connected to poverty, conflict, and development issues
then we can help them realize their full potential as social change agents and feed their interest to become engaged citizens.
And if we can facilitate the youth to discover their talents, harness their ideas, and equip them with compassionate attitudes, skills, and knowledge
then we can empower them to become active participants in peaceful community development.
Our Approach
Based on the problem we are solving, our values and beliefs, we have adopted the following strategies in our work:
Community Peace Structures
We aim to establish and coordinate Peace Clubs in every institution of higher learning in Kenya to act as a platform to mobilize, organize and engage youth talents, ideas, and skills in peacebuilding, self, and community development activities. Currently, PAK peace clubs exist in over thirty institutions with a membership base of over 5,000 thousand youth volunteers.
Capacity Building
We work to build young men’s and women’s capacity and enhance their ability to prevent, address, and recover from conflict situations. This goal is achieved through participatory learning and training in technical, social, and life skills.
Community mobilization and awareness
We endeavour to use community mobilization and awareness creation to reach out to more people at the community level. We achieve this goal through peace walks, public forums, health and education sensitization activities, environment management activities, talent shows, and charity events.
Advocacy
We use advocacy to place the youth agenda on various stakeholders’ doorstep, among them the government, development organizations, and the media. We work with actors and coalitions to influence policy through participatory advocacy where key stakeholders and communities can speak to and influence power, policy formulation, and implementation processes.
Partnership, Networking, and Collaboration
We work with partners, networks and develop collaboration/coalition with key actors engaging youth in peacebuilding and youth empowerment. A key objective is to establish a youth action platform where peace actors can build synergy for youth empowerment in changing the culture of violence to Non-violence among the youth.
Youth Exchange Forums
We undertake large scale Exchange Forums which will bring together youth to share their experiences, exchange ideas, and learn from one another nationally and internationally.
Our Target Groups
Young people
By assisting them to gain exposure, gain life-based and technical skills that can help them address issues affecting them and earn a decent income, thus reducing poverty.
Young Women
Through a deliberate focus approach that ensures they don’t fall through the cracks due to their vulnerable position.
Community members
They gain knowledge and information on various developmental issues affecting them and guidance for collective and sustainable solutions.
Youth Clubs
They build the capacity to operate more effectively within the youth development agenda and maximize their members’ opportunities.
Development Stakeholders & Learning Institution
They get insights and expertise in dealing and engaging young people and their issues
Kenya Government
We aspire to contribute to the Vision 2030 besides complementing other government policies and actions of citizen participation, sustainable development goals, youth participation, and community policing