Savannah projects

The first project we visited was UZIMA foundation Africa, which is committed to youth empowerment for the improvement of the quality of the lives of the youth, their families and communities. We visited three businesses –a hairdresser, a tailor and a bead-maker and houses in the biggest slum in southern savannah.

We also got the opportunity to interact with the local youth staying in Kibera. It was a good reflection and we learned about leadership, survival, entrepreneurship towards achieving our goals.

SOS Children Village is a non-governmental organization. Their primary goal is to provide a permanent home and education to needy and homeless children. In the youth village, we interacted with the girls, we debated on women and leadership while exploring the departments such as dance, drama, sports, etc.

In addition to this, 11 of the JLS participants went to visit Kibera Girls Centre, which is a KGGA project. The girls are equipped with skills that will later enable them to earn a living and develop to their fullest potential. Some of the skills include dress-making, art crafts, catering, computer studies, Guiding and environmental activities.

The centre also feeds the children every Saturday. While we were at the centre, we played with the children and taught them different songs, painted a block, planted some flowers, cooked breakfast and lunch, taught lessons on self-esteem and even learned how to recycle plastic bags! We also had the chance to visit two homes in the slum area and interacted with them. We found that it was a life-challenging experience. Thank you WAGGGS for this opportunity!

Another group of 12 of the JLS participated on the Hawkers Market Girls Centre Project (HMGC). The HMGC empowers young women, offering leadership and life skills. We met the girls of the centre and they taught us how to make solar cooking, etiquettes, bracelets and we had opportunity to create a logo for the association and in the end of the day we painted together their classrooms.

Then at CHURA Community School, as part of empowering young girls, we spent a day with 25 new Girl Guides. We learned how to construct a solar cooking and realized that it was a cheap, healthy and more liberating way of cooking for women.

Later, we planted more trees and named them after us to encourage the young Guides to take better care of them.Finally, it was creative time as we painted the classroom doors in beautiful rainbow colors.

Patrol number 6 (from left to right):
Silje-Norway
Fatoumata- the Gambia Judith - Ghana
Mary - Uganda
Bushra- the Maldives
Renata - Hungary
Melanie - Mexico