Nicofeli Youth Club Profile

BRIEF BACKGROUND OF THE CLUB

Nicofeli Youth Club’s present programmes were shaped by a planning process undertaken in 2008 immediately after the post-poll skirmishes, documented in the plan and budget 2008-2010. Although a two year perspective was taken, objectives were set to a one-year time frame ending July, 2009, and financial requests were likewise limited to one year. Nicofeli Youth Club is a Community Based Organization (CBO), duly registered by the Government of Kenya.

The club started in the year 2007, but became active the year 2008, immediately after post poll skirmishes, and so far has enrolled about 200 youth on board. The club’s motto is “Promoting Youth’s Talents Through Access to Youth’s Right to Extracurricular Activities.” But access to these activities are limited by weakness in the system, e.g. insufficient personnel unevenly distributed, with the poor getting nearly 1%, if any; affordable facilities; complexity of procedures; remoteness of professional personnel and socioeconomic characteristics of the population, e.g. low functional literacy levels, ignorance of rights, and of course poverty itself. Furthermore, the education, cultural, gender and social systems tend to be perceived by the ordinary youth as an instrument of state authority, oppressive, complicated, slow and remote.

Fundraising underway to ship books

A holiday fundraising drive is underway via the art gallery within(Reason): a contemporary art and photo space, in Chicago, to raise monies to help ship books to the Nicofeli church library in Kibera. For more information on how you can help, visit this page. [Above: Volunteer Jessica Gilbert helps package books in preparation for shipping from Chicago.]

Welcome! About the clubs

The Nicofeli Kids Club and Youth Club are up and running! Founded and directed by Osir Caleb, the clubs are a venue for kids of the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, to have access to after-school arts, reading and sports programs. If you would like to learn more about helping, please email nicofelikidsclub@gmail.com and we will get back to you right away!