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BACKGROUND
Young Single mothers self help group is both local women focused and pro- poor network that is comprised of over 30 women-individuals. The organization has current geographical coverage of entire Kibera slum of about 5 segments in the constituency(VILAGES). Specifically the initiative is currently working with the following in the city slum areas. Ysmeg was founded as a response to the inadequate visibility of voiceless young women in job procurement and development processes i.e. decision making forums which directly impact them and their communities. Its genesis was demand driven and the main vision behind the organization was to train young people on Tailoring and Dressmaking basic skills and build a strong young women’s movement that bridged the latter gap through women led and community driven interventions that focused on sustainable development. The organization continues to hold a vision in which women and their children are able to participate effectively in their own development, while the organization’s mission is to provide vocational training in order to facilitate grassroots women to procure self employment in their community to effectively in holistic sustainable development processes in all spheres of life that is social and economic. The project is located in Kibera poor slum with a population ranging to 1 million, each house currently occupied by at least four to seven members of each family, there is a lot of illiteracy and something needs to be done in order to reduce this problem, Due to lager population and unemployment in the region many young women and the youths have engaged themselves in bad activities like prostitution ,drags, rape and stealing/mugging which has made the place to be volatile to the people leaving there.
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