Youths in Africa are constricted by many challenges today. From lacking basic needs like food and water, education and employment, to difficulties in facing the society they are living in today, young people are under siege. Many are yet to be aware of the significance of the five dimensions of
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Echoes of the Maisha Center(Kisangani)
In this month of October 2021, the Maisha Center had focused much more on the production of banners for the activities of the Ignatian Jubilee Year, as well as the usual activities for people living with HIV in the care of the Maisha Center. Production of banners The Maisha Center
Accompanying the youth in prison and in prison communities continues
Over the month of October, AJAN work of accompanying the youth in prisons continued. This happens for both prisoners and others who live within the prison precincts. AJAN trainers have been visiting the YCTC and Kamae girls borstal institutions and engaging the young boys and girls respectively. AHAPPY has also
Fr. Ismael Matambura briefly visits Nyahururu women’s prison
On 10th October 2021, the AJAN team led by Fr. Ismael Matambura briefly stopped over at Nyahururu women’s prison to encourage women incarcerated there. It was following the invitation of Lilian Wambui, a catechist who is a trainer with the AJAN HIV and AIDS Prevention Programme for Youth. Fr. Ismael
Vaccine hesitancy in pregnant people drives rise in Covid hospitalizations
By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) Pregnant people who develop Covid-19 symptoms risk emergency complications and other problems with their pregnancies, according to two new studies. And pregnancy alone places people at an increased risk for severe illness and death. But despite these risks, pregnant people remain some of the most vaccine-hesitant populations in
AJAN takes message of integral growth and peace to the youth of Maralal.
Maralal is in the war-torn Samburu county in north-central Kenya Maralal, the nerve centre of the physically charming Samburu County of Kenya, is about 340 kilometers north of Nairobi. The communities in the arid Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists keeping camels, cows, goats, and sheep. The Samburu National Reserve, and some of Kenya’s best game lodges
YOUTH FOR A HOPE-FILLED FUTURE
Youth is a defining period for a human being, a time for fundamental decisions. It is the time a purposeful and triumphant future can be cultivated or the opportunity can be missed. It is also a period of inculcating values and principles of life and helping the youth to acquire
Echoes of the Maisha Center(Kisangani)
The Maisha Center carried out in September 2021, three activities namely: Distribution of books to the young people of the Christ-Roi parish for their intellectual support; Meeting with the Presidents of the parish youth commissions and some peer educators trained by the Maisha Center; The day of reflection with the
ACCOMPANYING YOUTH AND STAFF IN THE PRISONS
“Accompanying the youth entails creating space of dialogue with them on topics or issues of concern, with the critical aim of placing them at the centre of solutions. It is about guiding the youth to be self-critical, inculcating in them the skill of analyzing the world they live in and
ABE and AJAN accompany the youth of Bouassa- ABE, Burkina Faso.
By ZONGO Félicienne President of ABE. ABE organized the three days of advocacy on Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September 2021. Youth Advocacy activities in Boassa-Sandogo took place in the St Dominic chapel of Boassa. A public lecture on the current challenges of youth took place from 6.30
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