INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY

Jane is a 43 year old single mother and a grandmother to 5 grand children she has also adopted a 13 year old girl who was orphaned by the post election violence. She supports her grandchildren through small scale farming in Kiambaa, Eldoret.

Jane was hiding out in the Kiambaa church late 2007 after the presidential announcement. When the church was set ablaze she managed to escape from the blaze, she did not escape unhurt that night as she was stoned. She hid in the nearby toilet with some children.

CBO CATEGORY

The Main focus is improved youth community participation in peace building, conflict management and active nonviolence through sports, culture and education in Nairobi Kibera slums. Our community approach is through mentoring, exchange and direct intervention and networking.

Amani Kibera can thus be described as a vehicle for youth development, information exchange, training, networking, and youth leadership, Hence we ascertain ourselves through networking and partnership and or mentorship so as to become a center where youth would Share and seek assistance in all aspects of their lives and nature their talent to make them productive people in life and development.