By Agnes Aineah Nairobi, 07 December, 2021 / 11:00 pm (ACI Africa). More than 20 prison officers who oversee the custody of hundreds of young people in juvenile correctional facilities in Kenya have successfully completed training to help them instill important life skills in young offenders. In a report shared
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The Lesson from Nengapeta for Our Times
Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta (29 December 1939 – 1 December 1964) I often reflect on the courage of Nengapeta, a young Congolese religious woman who dedicated her short life to the Sisters of the Holy Family in Kisangani. Sr. Nengapeta lived in an uncertain time of colonialism and conflict in
Chikuni Homebased Care conducts entrepreneurship workshop for 35 youth leaders
By Catherine Milimo, Chikuni Home-based Care Chikuni Parish conducted a three-day community youth leaders’ orientation workshop from 19th to 21st November 2021 which 35 youths attended. The community youth leaders were trained in the use of natural resources, environmental protection, climate change, deforestation, afforestation, conservation farming, and entrepreneurial skills/ schemes
“We are now better equipped”, say prison officers as AHAPPY training happens at Kamiti Maximum Prison.
AJAN Ministry in the prisons proceeds as Prison officers are trained “I am much better prepared to engage the imprisoned youth now. I am now aware about the changes the youth are undergoing because it shows through their emotions and irritability. I have learnt more about values, virtues, and principles.
Primary school boys having sex, but not getting HIV tests – NACC
This year, 1,473 young people aged 10 to 19 years have died from untreated HIV, which progressed to Aids In Summary Children are already having sex and exposing themselves to HIV and there was no need to ignore that – Ruth Masha. National Council for Population and Development director in
The Center Arrupe Madagascar – The Health and Family Program for young people
The months of September and October were a period of intense sensitization for the Pastoral Health and Family at the level of the Center Arrupe Madagascar (MDG CA). Indeed, with its vision “a fairer society, a more viable world and a more livable environment”, the MDG CA channeled its efforts
For change to happen in our society, the minds of our young people need to be moulded
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
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
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
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