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Eastern Africa Regional Youth Network

Nairobi, Kenya
Joined September 2018

EARYN enhance the capacity of youths’ across the region and build an empowered youth network, where youths’ see themselves as unique advocates, ambassadors and to be authentic agents of change.

Presence in: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda
Focus: Criminal Justice, Education, Gender-based violence, Governance, Accountability & Transparency, Health, Labor & Employment, Livelihoods, Peace-building & Transitional Justice

Eastern Africa Regional Youth Network (EARYN) is the successor of the Global Youth
Network for Eastern Africa that started in 2003 as a project under the UNODC Regional
Office for Eastern Africa and was concluded in 2007. The project established National
Youth Networks in some of the 13 countries under the regional office.

At EARYN, we CARE…

We connect youth organizations by promoting networking, sharing skills and
good practice for effective programs, impact and as a tool for
resource mobilization;

We act to delay the onset use of substance of abuse, reduce crime and
to sustain reduction in the incidence of HIV and AIDS among the
youths’;

We rehabilitate with respect to dignity and treat drug dependence as a health
problem, not a behaviourial problem:

We empower with believe, that a source of livelihood is a prime means of
ensuring a stable lifestyle free of crime, drugs and as a tool for
relapse prevention.

EARYN has established an endowment fund to receive grants, donations, gifts and other assistance for any one or more of its objectives to invest and appoint trustees to
manager the fund. The main aim of the endowment fund will to provide perpetuity source for projects support and a source of livelihood for youths’ involved in our programs.

Re – Fund promotes and support efforts by youths’ groups national through the National Youth Networks in the respective countries, to prevent drug abuse, crime, HIV
and AIDS among young people. We believe that, advocacy only is never enough. We want youths’ to show the world, that we are the change we expect to see and the trustees for the future generation. We invest in innovative social enterprises by promoting by the youth for the youth social investment with commitment for supporting non income generating interventions.We want to contribute to the innovative ideas by the youths’, for we don’t see youths’ as part of the problem. But rather as cornerstone of the solution to the problem.