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Champions Factory, together with Go Sports Nepal, organising the transnational leaders meeting within the Women Empowerment through Sports Project in Kathmandu (Nepal) in October 2018!

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Youth leaders from Women Empowerment through Sport (WEtS) pay a courtesy call on Chargé d'Affaires Mr Enrico Strampelli (center) of the EU Delegation to the Philippines.

The leaders are in Manila on a study visit. WEts is a 24- month capacity building involving 6 organisations from Bulgaria and Italy, Kenya and Tanzania and Nepal, Cambodia and the Philippines. The project develops, tests and spreads new educational methodologies for young women empowerment through sports. WEtS is a grantee of Erasmus + Capacity-Building Programme.

First Secretary Jerome Riviere provided an overview of the EU-Philippine relations to the youth leaders.

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Neemacbo is attending shadowing of capacity building plus in manilla, Phillipines

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Using art to express feelings

It's not easy to express what we have inside, deeply, in our mind, in our life. Thanks to the workshop of Lucy, ARTCOM participants explored their own feelings and created something special for themselves. An introspective and emotional workshop for young people of all continets.
Thanks also to NEEMA Community BASED Organisation

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International training course OF ARTCOM project - Art supporting communities through innovative tool for youth workers
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Neema Community Based Organization hosted the International Training in Nairobi,Kenya from 28th May to June 3rd, 2018. 24 youth workers had the life-time opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in Nairobi (Kenya). Countries that attended included; Bulgaria, Tanzania, Italy, Nepal, Philippines and the host, Kenya. The Project was coordinated by Champions Factory from Bulgaria.

Neema Community Based Organization hosted the International Training in Nairobi,Kenya from 28th May to June 3rd, 2018. 24 youth workers had the life-time opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in Nairobi (Kenya). Countries that attended included; Bulgaria, Tanzania, Italy, Nepal, Philippines and the host, Kenya.

Women Empowerment through Sports

coordinated trans-continental project has just started the training course in Kenya! 24 youth workers have the life-time opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in Nairobi (Kenya), hosted by our partner !

ARTCOM: How to foster social inclusion of marginalized young people with art therapy - CESIE

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cesie.org The ARTCOM project is started aiming to develop new educational approaches for youth workers, promoting the social inclusion of marginalized young people from Europe and Africa.

Women Empowerment through Sports

“Women empowerment through sport” (WEtS) is a Champions Factory run Capacity Building in the field of Youth project, involving 6 organisations from Europe (Bulgaria and Italy), Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) and Asia (Nepal and Philippines). The project gives us the opportunity to develop, test and spread new educational methodologies for young women empowerment through sport with the aim to enhance the capacity of the partner organisations and beyond.

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We say NO to Cyber Bullying!


“CYBER-BULLYING and NO HATE SPEECH”
Social Campaign
Cyber bullying
This is a crime /offense against an individual.
This offense against an individual can be done in various ways:-
● By violating their privacy
● By harassing them online by posting stuff about them
● By cyber stalking
● By hacking - you gain unauthorized access to an individual computer
● By email spoofing
In Kenya cyber bulling is not clearly portrayed as being an offence, Kenya is yet to came up with laws that out rightly pinpoint cyber bulling as an offense against which sanction can be sought.

Although there is Kenya communication amendment act which seek to build a knowledge based society, there are milestones to go as to put Kenya at par with the rest of the world.

How can we deal with cyber bullying?
1. By educating individuals; it is of paramount importance that personal information to be kept personal.
2. By awareness building; this is by developing /creating awareness programs that educate individuals on basic information of cyber laws as well as enlightening the public at large about impact of crimes carried out with the help of technology.
3. By training; identifying the kind of training that needs to be undertaken by personnel assigned to the cyber bulling cell. This enables personnel to stay up to date on development of various types of cyber bulling
4. By vigilant citizenry; citizens are advised to be their brothers/sisters keepers and be on the look-out for those being bullied online. Members of the public in Kenya report such to socials sites such as Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) and on Kilimani Mums and Dads Uncensored where they are discussed and reported to authorities for action to be taken.

SAY NO TO CYBER BULLYING and NO TO HATE SPEECH

Neema CBO was represented at a Kick-off meeting to launch and plan for the implementation of the project “ARTCOM-ART supporting COMmunities throUgh iNnovatIve Tools for Youth work which is a 2- year “Erasmus + Key Action 2 – Capacity Building in the field of Youth project” involving 6 organizations from Europe and Africa; in Palermo, Italy in February 21st-24th 2018. The project intends to Increase cooperation and exchange of good practices between organizations from Programme and Partner countries in non-formal education and youth work; strengthen quality of youth work, increase socio-professional development and key competences among youth workers and young people in art therapy through increased mobility; promoted intercultural dialogue and shared civic values across diverse cultures as well as foster social integration of youth from disadvantaged backgrounds in particular young migrants; develop and test non-formal learning tools and innovative approaches based on art therapy in youth work to be transferred to local communities.

Playing with pupils while testing the model "Youth Inclusion Through Sport" in Mathare.

Roberto Solinas, President Mine Vaganti NGO presenting balls to Principal Tumaini Primary School and a teacher at Blossom Children Center Primary School, Mathare after testing the model "Youth Inclusion Through Sport" model.

Participants during the Final Conference " Youth Inclusion Through Sport" at Scorpios Den Hotel, Nairobi.

Neema CBO played host to 24 participants from 12 different countries across the world on "Youth Inclusion Through Sport"conference held in Nairobi, Kenya on 8th July 2017.

Mine Vaganti NGO coordinated from April 2016 a Capacity Building in the frame of Youth, Inclusion Through Sport (ITS) ITS Final Event is happening right now in Kenya, Nairobi and comprises: - Visit to MYSA and NEEMA Community Based Organization. The 24 delegates of the 12 Countries involved in the project had the occasion to test the ETS/ITS methodology produced during 2 years of work. - On 2017, July 8th, from 10 AM in Nairobi, MVNGO and Consortium partners presented the results of ITS during the final Conference of the Project. Mine Vaganti NGO coordinated from April 2016 a Capacity Building in the frame of Youth, Inclusion Through Sport (ITS) The Executive Agency in Bruxelles (EACEA) granted our project which included 12 partners from 4 continents: Italy (Mine Vaganti NGO), Romania (Surf the Earth Project - STEP), Bulgaria ( Factory), Kenya (DAAC International - NGO), Senegal (Jeunesse en action "GNO FAR"), Cameroon (Global Compassion), Philippines (Palawan State University), Hong Kong-China (The Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong,), India (Baba Bhagwan Dass Educational Society), Guatemala (Techo – Guatemala), Peru (Brigada De Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perú ICA ) and Argentina (Círculo Raíces Sardas). The overall ITS project comprised activities in Senegal, Kenya, Peru, Argentina and Italy: TC, Seminars and Job Shadowings. Moreover, the project intended to foster Sport as a tool of inclusion, to solve interpersonal conflicts among youngsters, to promote tolerance and to assist young people to understand issues of diversity via non formal education. The ITS intellectual outputs are a Format TC, a Toolkit of ITS Best Practices and the ITS Website. L'Orma Neema Community Based Organization Mathare North Zone-MYSA MYSA Kenya Roberto Solinas Maria Grazia Pirina Paolo Menescardi Ilaria Polisino Shirin Amin Didar Amin Razvan Bond Clement Awanfe Ngueto Bouba Dieme Spata Michael Ochieng Jorge Galiano Alpes Pucallpino Carlos Romano Pablo Marcelo Fernandez Pira Jessica Palacios Monica Garcia-Araujo Yang Yu Albert Ramos Vince Esguerra Airnel Talatala Abarra Amarbir Singh Salar

Call for Local and International partners
Neema Cbo is looking for International partners so that we can work together in the following project ideas to make it a reality;
1. Education
2. Youth and Women Empowerment
3. Urban Agriculture
4. Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy
5.Governance
6. Peace education
7. Talent and Sports Development & Exchange programme
8. Children Welfare

Local and international partners are called upon to identify an area listed above for partnership or any new area which will be of mutual interest.

Feel free to get in touch here.

Current Projects requiring Partnership and Support

5. Neema CBO Website Development
We strongly believe that with a good website, we’ll be able to showcase to the world about the work we do and the impact it is having in our community. For this to happen, we require support in coming up with a Neema CBO website where people can be referred to. Being a small community organization as we are, we require the support of every one to make this a reality.

Current Projects requiring Partnership and Support

4. Youth Exchange Programs in areas of Art, Choreography etc.
Neema CBO have a pool of talented youths in the field of Art and Choreography (modern dance moves), football etc. We mentor and provide small support which is not enough to the youths to help them acquire equipment and costume for their performances.
The youths in the photos currently require support in terms of: cameras to shoot photos and videos (currently they are using a phone), laptop and any other equipment that will be of help to them.

Current Projects requiring Partnership and Support
1. Healthy eating of traditional and nutritious foods
Lifestyle diseases has been on the rise in most parts of the world and such diseases are cause by the foods we eat. Africa and to narrow it down, Kenya is not an exception. Most people have neglected producing traditional indigenous crops at the expense of modern foods. This has resulted into the diminishing of traditional food crops, increase in lifestyle diseases and loss of income to small scale farmers.

We have taken a critical look in all this and think that if people can start producing traditional food crops and feed on them then we'll be able to reduce food shortage given that some of these food crops are drought resistant, improve healthy living, save money used to treat diet related diseases, increase income capacity of small scale farmers thereby resulting into improved standards of living.

2. Education
There exist a high number of pupils, students and youths who in one way or another are not able to go to school due to the fact that they are not able to pay for school fees given that they come from poor background meaning their parents have no source of income even though such pupils, students and or youths are very bright. We have some who passed very highly in their high school exams and are qualified to go to university but due to lack of funds, are not able to and have gone ahead to doing manual work but still interested in going back to school.

As a local organization, we need your support in this area to make members of our community go to school.

3. Peace Development through Youth and Women Empowerment
According to Wikipedia, peace is a period of harmony between different social groups that is characterized by lack of violence or conflict behaviors, and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility and retribution, peace also suggests sincere attempts at reconciliation, the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.

Peace can be realized in every part of this world if each and every person plays his or her role right in society. A major challenge to world peace is the ballooning youth population and ever increasing rates of unemployment coupled with corrupt governments in developing nations, portrays a bleak future for the youth who see their governments as ‘unresponsive’ to their needs. Most governments in developing nations have not come up with a serious policy to root out youth unemployment. In 2007, the World Development Report titled Development and the Next Generation, focused on investing in young people in developing countries. The report acknowledges that 12-24 year olds worldwide have reached 1.3 billion, the largest in history. Whereas there are unprecedented challenges when it comes to the question of young people, there are also great opportunities that should be seized before the aging society closes those opportunities. The report highlights pivotal phases/transitions of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies. These transitions include: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship, which, if corresponding policy decisions are made well, will safeguard and properly deploy human capital. If made badly, the consequences will be very costly to correct because dropping out of school, prolonged periods of unemployment, or risky health behavior can leave permanent scars that affect the quality of life in the later years. While decisions about these transitions are made by the youth and their families, the report realizes that policies and institutions have implications on the risks, opportunities and outcomes of these transitions.
Peace Education and Sensitization is planned to be conducted through:
1) Peace concerts.
2) Sports for peace e.g. run, football, singing and dancing competitions etc.
3) Peace Barazas.
4) Training sessions on Dispute Resolution Mechanism.
5) Print and social media campaigns.
6) Ensure visibility of peace stickers on both Private and Public Service Vehicles.
7) Use a pool of local and international volunteers to promote peace.
8) Universities, colleges and schools will be incorporated to form their own peace groups and rewards given to the best group activity.

As a Cbo, we believe in community empowerment through Entrepreneurship training and providing food donations to those who need them immediately as it was on the day we took these pictures.

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