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Christabell Atieno Apudo - - Department Coordinator
Christabell has been involved in youth affairs
in Nairobi for a considerable time now culminating with her
working on the Management Team of FCBOK. In 2006, During the
Youth Employment Summit in Kenya Christabell participated
in the resource mobilization where she led the team in mobilizing
funds from the United Nations Organizations based in Kenya.
In 2008, Christabell was the Official Youth representative
to the Ministry of Youth fund committee and the National Youth
Policy Drafting team. She also joined international online
youth platform communities Taking IT global ( TIG) & Global
Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS ( GYCA) and is a member of the
East African task force team.
Ms. Christabell Opudo is also co-founder
and Chairlady of Stay Alive Youth Support Group in Nairobi,
Kenya, a community based organization with the aim to empower
youths in the fight against HIV and AIDS by involving them
actively and directly, through the advocacy of positive behavior
change among them, at the same time building their capacity
economically through the creation of sustainable income generating
activities with the aim of eradicating poverty.
Christabell has supported Youth organizations
and civil society engagement at events including the Youth
Employment Summit, World Urban Forum, International AIDS Conference,
World Summit on Sustainable Development, Youth Employment
Summit and National Organization of peer educator’s
conference in Kenya.
Christabell is a third year B.A. student
at University of Nairobi pursuing Gender & Development
studies, and has been a youth empowerment program consultant
for Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports – Kenya and
UN-HABITAT.
CHRISTABELL'S STATEMENT
“My focus relating to HIV/AIDS became
my concern as I saw my fellow colleagues losing hope in all
after learning of their HIV+ status. Passionately through
the information I gained on matters relating to the fight
and stigma towards HIV/AIDS and also by meeting young people
surviving on HIV/AIDS, I managed to bring together young people
both infected and affected with HIV/AIDS to be empowered and
to be able to reach out to their fellow youth. The initiatives
have given me a lot of satisfaction and more of a reason to
wake up in the morning meeting young people and listening
to them and forging ways forward on how to empower them”.
Francis Ongeso - Department Coordinator
Francis has stayed in Jericho for over two
decade and so he understands the challenges in the area having
schooled with most of the youth in Jericho. Having observed
the idleness of the youth in Jericho Estate due to unemployment
and seen the tendencies of the young to join criminal gangs
Francis joined hands with a number of similar minded Jericho
residents wishing to give the youth a chance by mobilizing
them to offer community services at a cost such as garbage
collection, land scaping, gardening and washing cars. The
youth were later on brought together under one association
and a community resource centre was conceptualized to address
the needs of this young generation. Francis continues to have
a passion to give hope to the youth.
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