World Youth Channel

 The youth today are an unexploited resource. Prevalent unemployment rates (over 50% in most economically challenged countries) have led to a majority of them looking for alternative sources of self-sustenance. These alternatives do not always bear positive outcomes. A significant proportion of the challenge is created by lack of ownership by these youth of the change process required to improve the African continent.

The youth are additionally not aware of what their colleagues are pursuing in neighbouring countries and regions. The most intensive interaction is with the West where there is a huge effort to ape and extol contemporary Western culture. Yet there is such a rich heritage and capacity in the rest of the world which remains unexploited because of lack of a structure to accommodate and drive the process.

If youth can be brought together to speak with one voice and share experiences with a view towards establishing a singe-source point of departure for evidence-based interventions, a proper effort will bear fruit on the ground, and the youth shall eventually be a significant factor in African growth and development. This growth is not just economical, but is also socio-cultural and intellectual, since a cultural and knowledge interface is easily accommodated when packaged in the right way for the youth. We are here to foster this!

The World Youth Channel is a non-governmental organization (NGO) set up in collaboration with World Vision Kenya to address the youth’s role in the achievement of lasting development. The World Youth Channel Team is committed to the empowerment and mobilization of youth for poverty-reduction activities and advocacy in Kenya.