Empowering Youth Through Community Climate Action

Forezava is a youth-led initiative transforming rural Vihiga County through climate-smart agriculture and community engagement via sports and arts. We aim to uplift youth and women for a sustainable future.

Working with Forezava has built my knowledge and skills in Climate Smart and Conservation Agriculture mainly Organic Farming & Regenerative Agriculture practices

Wamalwa George Maru

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Collaborative, Innovative & Practical

We have designed a unique approach to working with youth in our community. Building on their desire creativity, willingness to collaborate & co-create solutions we are entrenching the need for a practical approach to problem solving through agri-preneurship and related fields of interest.

Climate Smart and Conservation Agriculture

We amplify the need for youth to engage in Climate Smart & Conservation Agriculture. This is backed with amazing data from multiple stakeholders including the UNDP that has highlighted the potential for CSCA to create numerous opportunities for empowerment.

Community Engagement

We recognize the need to have the youthful members of the community activated and engaged. Our leveraging of sports and arts as platforms for creating creating conversations that results in action has proven to be very effective.

A Vijana4Vijana Approach

We believe that youth if and when given opportunities to work together in an environment that is progressively enabling, they have the greatest potential to build amazing solutions.

FOREZAVA Community Enterprise Development Initiative (F-CEDI)

We are intent on building young people and women capacity to start and run enterprises. The idea is to work together with them in establishing, formalizing, launching and managing these enterprises.

Sports4Ezava

We recognize the immense potential for sports to mobilize the community into action. Soccer for instance has immense following among the youth in Vihiga County and has greatly been used to create conversations that generate action. Sports4Ezava has enabled youth to participate in activities such as tree planting and community dialogues.

Arts4Ezava

This is a unique platform for building and scaling youth artistic expression mainly through creative, performed and fine arts. We are building the ability for youth to establish their potential to generate community impact using their talents and skills in drama, music, theatre and fine arts

Youth Engagement

Empowering youth through climate action, sports, and arts initiatives.