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BUSINESS START-UP AND GROWTH/PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT COUNTRY: KENYA VENUE: LOW-LEVEL NURSERY SCHOOL IN GANJONI MOMBASA ATTENDED BY 45 MEMBERS OF LOW-LEVEL YOUTH BUNGE IN ATTENDANCE: VILLAGE ELDER 2/1/2013 NAME: ANTHONY WANJALA GOAL: To empower youths with entrepreneurship skills so as they become job creators/to maintain peace and resolve any conflict before, during and after the march 4th election.

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Page 1: [Challenge:Future] YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS/PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS START-UP AND GROWTH/PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

C O U N T R Y : K E N Y A

V E N U E : L O W - L E V E L N U R S E R Y

S C H O O L I N G A N J O N I M O M B A S A

A T T E N D E D B Y 4 5 M E M B E R S O F

L O W - L E V E L Y O U T H B U N G E

I N A T T E N D A N C E : V I L L A G E

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NAME: ANTHONY WANJALA

GOAL: To empower youths with

entrepreneurship skills so as they become

job creators/to maintain peace and resolve

any conflict before, during and after the

march 4th election.

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INTRODUCTION:

We youths of low-level village in Mombasa formed a youth group and registered it with the ministry of

youth.

I was elected as the organizing secretary and my duty has been organizing events, project writing and

coordination. As a founding member of this group I have organize several events and as a result the

group won several awards. The event described above is one of the several events organized by me. The

formation of this group was also to provide youths an opportunity to discuss and prioritize issues that

impact directly on their community and well-being.

Low-level Youth Bunge is a Kenya based group from Mombasa County in Ganjoni at a place called low-

level.

By then group had 25 members but now it has over 45 members.

2.0MISSION AND VISION

2.1MISSION

1. Develops competent and assertive leadership

2. Strengthens the confidence of youth in themselves and their work.

3. Promotes the intelligent choice and establishment of a career path.

4. Encourages achievement and youth enterprises.

5. Encourages wise management of economic, environmental and human resources of the

community.

6. Develops interpersonal skills in teamwork, communications, human relations and social

interactions.

7. Builds character and promotes citizenship, volunteerism and patriotism.

8. Promotes cooperation and cooperative attitudes among all people.

9. Promotes healthy lifestyles.

10. Encourages excellence in scholarship.

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2.2VISION

Low-Level Youth Bunge group was formed in September 2011 with the following objectives in mind.

1. To promote peace, love, and unity amongst the youths.

2. To discuss matter affecting the youth i.e. early pregnancy, peer pressure, drug abuse, unemployment,

ignorance and STD s/HIV/AIDS.

3. To become business oriented and to ensure that the youth grow into responsible parents in future.

4. To partner with non-governmental institutions /other institutions with the youth agenda in mind.

5. To fight poverty, this is the root cause of all the evils affecting the youth.

3.0.0MANAGEMENT BOARD

The board is elected annually through secret ballot or by any other means in accordance with the group

constitution (ARTICLE 5)

The management team consists of the following :

1. President………………………..EUNICE ANGELINE DAVID

2. Vice president…………………ASCAR DAVID

3. Secretary………………………..JOHNSON CHEGE

4. Treasurer……………………….NANCY OKINYI

5. Organizing secretary………ANTHONY BABU WANJALA

6. Public relation officer…….ALEX KIMANTHI

7. Security officer……………..DAVID DASHWOOD

3.1.0 RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MANAGEMENT TEAM

To work out exactly what people and equipment will be needed and source them.

To initiate any business associated with Group.

Controlling, planning and directing overall activities of the Group.

To identify roles and skills and responsibilities of each individual in the group.

To make policies and head all managerial meetings.

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To sign major business documents and also make major decisions regarding the business.

To delegate to the non-elected members to make specific decisions.

Maintaining records of progress and submission of reports and statements.

To handle higher level budgeting.

Ensuring that the goals and objectives of the group are achieved.

Formulation of sales and marketing policies.

Maintain law and order within the Group.

Take minutes of all meetings

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BUSINESS START-UP AND GROWTH/PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

AGENDA:

1. YOUTH AND BUSINESS (ONE WEEK)

Self-confident: An Essential life-skill for Business ideas.

Scanning the environment for business ideas

How to select a business idea

Knowing your market well: Doing a market research

Writing a business plan

Getting and retaining customers

Tips on managing a small Business, and mistakes to Avoid

Keeping Business records

Growing my Business

Business financial services

Building business Networks

2. PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT (ONE WEEK)

Defining what a conflict is.

Types of conflicts

Identify community needs

Rights of a citizen

Peace keeping/Conflict resolution

Constitutionalism

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PRACTICAL WORK/OUTCOMES

1. PRACTICAL WORK (YOUTH AND BUSINESS)

After the events, by the use of our little monthly contributions we started a plastic chair for hire

venture. Some of our girls including the group chairlady (president) started making and selling

shoes while the boys started a carwash business. This event was really helpful.

All the other businesses are still doing well up to now except the carwash venture whereby the

machine developed a very serious technical problem and required a lot of cash to repair .Till

now ,the boys are using the manual wash and most of them are complaining since they cannot

wash as many cars as before.

The money obtained from the venture is saved in order to purchase an electrical carwash

machine other than the useless petrol machine which broke down and its warranty is not

covered here in Kenya.

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2. PRACTICAL WORK/OUTCOMES

Peace and Conflict Resolution

The group joined hands with other youths from Mombasa County under the flagship of the yes

youth can Coast and preached peace on a door to door basis and intern the expected chaos

before, during and after the March 2013 polls did not take place. This was the greatest

achievement.

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AWARDS

In relation to our activities, just as the CF which was awarded with the SEA AWARD our group ,

Low-level youth Bunge was awarded with a certificate in May 2013 for youth empowerment.

This was on 23rd-may-2013 during the Mombasa County youth s annual delegates meeting.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

MY GROUP: [email protected].

Or visit our Facebook page:www.facebook.com/pages/low-levelyouthbungegroup.