About this project

Projectdescription

12 Trouble Beaters from Youth on the Move are trained as coaches to support 120 youth with epilepsy at the clinics in Nairobi to live beyond their condition.

1 professional Trouble Beater offers counselling to 30 traumatized youth with epilepsy to overcome the struggles of the past and to focus on the opportunities in the future.

After getting coaching / counselling, 30 youth will be offered entrepreneurship training and a loan from the Youth Enterprise Fund (from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports) to become independent through their own business.

Project objectives

(a)Prevention: Coaching
To strengthen the capacity of youth with epilepsy by giving coaching sessions which stimulates them to live beyond their epilepsy to prevent traumatic experiences

(b)Curation: Counselling
To offer counselling to youth with traumatic experiences regarding their epilepsy to overcome and live beyond these

Target group(s) of the project

1. Youth with epilepsy who are facing challenges but haven't experienced trauma's yet

2. Youth with epilepsy who are traumatized due to their epilepsy

Direct beneficiaries:
12 youth coordinators in training: they improve their skills as coaches
30 youth who get counselling: they are guided to overcome their trauma’s related to epilepsy and to live beyond it.
90 youth who get coaching: they are guided to live beyond their epilepsy.

Indirect beneficiaries:
An average of 180 patients which KAWE weekly receives at the Epilepsy Clinics in Karen, Riruta and Mathare. They interact with the persons who get coaching and counseling, and will be given a positive example how to overcome their trauma’s related to epilepsy and how to live beyond it.

The persons who are guided are encouraged to educate the 10 key people in their lives (such as parents, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbours, teachers, pastors). This means that of the 120 who have been given coaching and counselling, will positively change the minds and behaviour regarding persons with epilepsy among 1,200 people.

This is in total 1,512 persons which will be empowered and educated regarding epilepsy.

In what way does this project contribute to reducing poverty?

In Kenya, 800,000 persons live with epilepsy and are often excluded from study and work. This keeps them dependent and in poverty. We face the challenge that giving coaching alone is not enough to get them out of poverty. Coaching focuses on ‘here and now’ and how to get to the desired situation in the future. People who have trauma’s due to struggles with their epilepsy in the past need more than this coaching. They firstly need to overcome the traumas before they are ready to focus on the future with an optimistic view. This professional counselling is not yet offered at the clinics. The employees and volunteers at the clinics who call themselves counsellor, are more of giving advice than using professional counselling techniques to let the client open up about the past and to get over the trauma. Through coaching and counselling, youth with epilepsy learn to live beyond their epilepsy and to focus on and use their opportunities. We use the Mindfulness and ACT approach. ACT stands for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It's all about learning to accept the condition and take commitment to live beyond it, to be pro-active. Through this approach the youth become independent by taking initiative to start their own business. For this we also offer entrepreneurship training, this is one of our other offered activities from Youth on the Move. Youth with trauma's are not yet ready to start their own business if they haven't learned to live beyond it. Therefore it is a priority to start with counselling.

Sustainability

By offering the training to youth with epilepsy to give coaching, they become independent to coach youth with epilepsy in an early stage, so that trauma's can be prevented. Unfortunately, now we still have many youth with epilepsy who haven't been offered help in the beginning when epilepsy was diagnosed. Therefore they are in need of the counselling sessions. We are earning money through our cyber cafe to pay the rent of the venue, but hope to expand this cyber so that in future we can also afford the counsellor through this income generating activity.

We are looking for a venue nearby where we can have our cyber cafe and training centre, where there is space for more computers. We want to use the profit of the cyber of 2010 to expand the cyber in 2011, in the expectation that in 2012 it will provide a bigger percentage of the expenses we have for epilepsy education, counselling and coaching.

Secondly we are in the process of developing trainings to offer for a fee to customers. This idea is invented after people have shown interest to follow the courses we give to our youth coordinators in training. We are not yet aware what amount of money we can earn through this income generating activity.

We keep in close touch with the persons we have guided through coaching and counselling through their visits at the epilepsy clinics. While they come to the clinics we encourage them keep on educating persons in their own environment (such as parents, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbours, teachers, pastors). When we are planning our epilepsy education outside the training centre, we invite them to be part of the peer educators.

Starting date of the project

01 January 2010

End date of the project

31 December 2011

Project activities and time planning

Jan-Dec: Counseling of 30 youth wiht epilepsy who face trauma's and haven't overcome these.

January: selection of 12 Trouble Beaters

February: 12 Trouble Beaters get trainings on Epilepsy from Youth Trainer

March: 12 Trouble Beaters get trainings on Culture and Identity from Youth Trainer to learn to positively deal with culture differences among themselves and their peers

April: 12 Trouble Beaters get trainings on coaching from the Youth Trainer, they learn how to professionally empower youth through coaching sessions.

May - Dec: The Trouble Beaters offer coaching at the three clinics in Nairobi (Mathare, Riruta, Karen).

May - Dec: Three trainings of two days on entrepreneurship will be given to 30 youth to start their own business. The youth we select for this training, are the 30 youths who don't have other plans of what to do to build up self-sustainance. After the trainings they get guidance of the trainer in starting their own business.

Expected project results

120 youth with epilepsy live beyond their epilepsy and have prevented the traumatic experiences on the condition.

30 traumatized youth with epilepsy have overcome their struggles and have been guided to see and make use of their opportunties.

Of the 150 youth, 30 have followed entrepreneurship training and have been given a loan from the Youth Enterprise Fund, they have started their business and are capable to earn their own income.

Project budget

Total costs project

EUR 980

Additional explanation of your budget

For this program we only request the money for the coaching and counseling. The budget for the entrepreneurship training is requested to another fund to sponsor us.

The following people contribute to the project and will get allowance:
1 Youth Trainer who gives trainings and personal guidance on different topics throughout the year. One of the topics is coaching. They receive this training after the trainings on epilepsy, culture and identity and personal development plan. For the hours that the Youth Trainer spends to train the youth, they need to get 30,000 ksh (this is € 300).

1 Youth Coach who gives the coaching and counseling at the clinics and who does the communication at the website of 1% club. They need to get Ksh 30,000 (this is € 300) in total for this.

12 Youth Coordinators in Training who give coaching at the clinics after they have gotten the training. Their transport allowances will cost Ksh 30,000 (this is € 300) in total.

Funding (in Euros) already received through other resources (mention other sources)

Each year we earn € 10,000 through our cyber cafe to pay for the rent of our office, for licenses of the city council and for the payment of the financial manager and our lobbyist.

Expected funding (in Euros) through other resources

We also expect to get € 4,340 for the entrepreneurship training from a secret fund which is sponsoring us.

Amount requested (in Euros) through the 1% CLUB

EUR 980