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| CHRISC Kenya’s main weapon of access and reach is Sports, Sports is used as a tool to develop the youth through organizing girls empowerment and capacity development. |
| 1.Sports |
| It is the major entry point amongst others, in regard to participation and also sets the platform for passing the very needful information to the community. As a gathering concept, football, volleyball, Table tennis and fun games are used to organize the youth through tournaments, leagues and school project. What have been lacking in our communities are social forums where young people can meet and share ideas, the lack of social forums and amenities has resulted into rampant and increase in regressive behavior among the youth, both in the rural and urban setting. “Sport based approach” into rebuilding the community, is believed to be able to reconstruct the limitations and mobilize the youth in the society and use it as a launch pad to build relationships and contacts. |
| 2. Girls Empowerment |
| Very often girls’ physical mobility is curtailed by cultural norms and conditions that determine where they should go, what they should do, safe and or acceptable. This perception and conception by the community and parents, narrowed social networks and few collective spaces which they (girls) can gather to meet with peers, to receive mentoring support , and acquire skills; this restricted them to domestic sphere – nominally to protect them from dangers outside the home. |
| 3. Capacity building |
| CHRISC volunteers and Staff aged between 10 to 25 years run the activities and affairs of the organization, supported by skilled youth leaders from the local level. The Organization is focused to develop leaders from the local level, from a wide range of training courses conducted by the CHRISC facilitators, instructors and also network with other local organization; so that they can own the process in sports development and community empowerment. |
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