Challenges/Situation

• Lack of role models – role models are school dropouts who have engaged in crime.
• Parents have neglected their roles - Parents in the district are busy making wealth such that they are not interested in their children’s education and welfare. Also parents take their children to recreation places. E.g. bars
• Youth with low ability in academic are neglected.
• Talents not recognized or appreciated for development e.g. sports, music, dance
• More alcoholic parents in kikuyu district –drinking with their sons
• Availability of drugs and alcohol-cheap and affordable (50%already addicted)
• No cultural identity - creation of community elders to restore community role in parenting
• No legacy from those who are educated
• No future projection on employment creation e.g. Asians, Indians prepare their children when still young.
• Lack of access to funds due to bureaucratic procedures
• Negative media influence e.g. pornographic materials in our centres
• Too many bars/pubs selling drugs and alcohol-community should say ‘NO’ (community elders to ensure that drinking points are reduced.)
• Lack of rehabilitation centres and services.

Interventions/Solutions

• Soft skills for class 8 and form 4 drop-outs in youth polytechnics.
• Appreciation and development of talents
• Recreation centres at sub-location level
• Sensitization on drugs and alcohol - One elder, 2 youths to be trained on drugs and alcohol from each sub-location
• Rehabilitation centres be established through CDF
• Encourage local institutions to employ our youths
• Teachers in schools to undergo training on drugs and alcohol
• Establish youth clubs to sensitise the community and schools on drugs and alcohol.
• Involve youth in leadership and decision making processes
• Establish youth forums at sub-locational level to help them dialogue on issues of crime, drugs and alcohol with assistance from provincial administration
• Administration and elders to work together to reduce and control entry of alcohol and drugs in the district.
• Local administration to link up with event organizer to reach the youths
• Sports activities to run professionally and talents to be developed.
• Building of social halls.
• Up-grade those who have D+; equipping them with materials and skills to enable them gain employment
• Train youths on various income generating activities e.g. rabbit rearing, dairy farming, bee keeping, fish farming etc to make them responsible.
• Provincial administration and communities to sensitize youth on crime, drug and alcohol
• Establish factories and cottage industries
• Professional in kikuyu district to create employment for youths.