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Light Youth Group

Here, is a brief of our profile: Light is a community-based organization(CBO] is a youth focused which was formed in 2012 and Officially registered as a Youth Group in 2018. The organization has since upgraded its registration center to a Community Based Organization (CBO) It's located at Wichlum Beach, Bondo sub county, Siaya county in KENYA Target Population 1. Gender and sexual minority. 2. Youths. 3. Fisherfolk Community. 4. Adolescence and Young Women Geographical Coverage Siaya County and Part of Busia County, Beaches and Islands within this catchment of Lake Victoria and Islands Bordering Uganda, based in Kenya as a country. GOAL: To enhance capacities of the target group in realization of their rights and obligations. VISION: To attain full health rights and social well-being for Gender and sexual Minority persons in Wichlum Beach and its environs of lake Victoria region in Western Kenya. MISSION: To act as an agent of transformation with the view to pursue a common understanding between the Gender and Sexual Minority(GSM) people, community and general society through creating awareness and sanitization threshold Our Objectives •Promoting health and well-being within the community, increased focus on HIV/AIDS/STIs, MALARIA, TUBERCULOSIS and other communicable diseases. •To offer comprehensive Health Services to the target groups. •Building capacity for individual and organizational development. •Advocating for environmental and climate justice. •Championing human rights and social justice. •Empowering the community economically through income-generating activities. •Strengthening institutions to support sustainable development and good governance.

Headquarter Country

Kenya

Geographies served

Kenya

Issue areas addressed

Health

Livelihoods

Communities served

Farmers, pastoralists and fishers, LGBTQ+, Women

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Policy & Advocacy Support
Technology Support

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SDGS FOCUS

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Collaborators

Stephen Obaye

Light Youth Group

 Nairobi City, Siaya County, Bondo Sub co

To fulfill the objective of the catalyst in collaboration with our objectives

Philip Aduonga

Light Youth Group

 Kenya

 Kisumu-Bondo

To have space for networking and building friendship with other organizations. To have opportunity to do resource mobilization for my organization