Young People Economic Empowerment (YPEE)
Target Impact
The goal of the Young People Economic Empowerment (YPEE) program is to support young people in communities to create dignified and fulfilling workspaces that offer vocational skills-building, storytelling, and healing.
Status: Active
Country
Kenya
Period
May 2023 - ongoing
Industries
Women's Empowerment
Impact to Date
This program is in its inception stages.
Partnership Focus
The program includes training, mentorship, and development of items like leather products to support the Rebirth of a Queen rescue shelter, among other activities.
The program has not only given young people the platform to learn a skill but also an opportunity to co-create a program that benefits them.
The program is open to young women, and especially survivors of gender-based violence, and is operating in Kiserian, Kajiado County.
In Partnership With
Rebirth of a Queen is a survivor-led, feminist and Community Based and Owned Organization (CBO) with a mission to empower and include survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and human trafficking in decision making spaces through storytelling, empowerment, education, training and protection. It is based in Kiserian, Kajiado County.
For more details visit: Rebirth of a Queen (therebirthofaqueen.org)