 Nyongesa is the director of ReCEP, an initiative that is impacting the lives of young women and girls through mentorship and training programs. I come from western part of Kenya, that is Kaka-Mega County, Nomiya. I took my primary education in Halaba primary. I majed in the best in my primary school. I have scored 519 points out of 700 by then. Then I proceeded to Lubinu and post Lubinu high school where I took my form 1 to form 4. Then from Lubinu, I came to Nairobi, that was 89. After completing my form 4 in 89, I came to Nairobi. Then I happened to land in Korokocho, one of the informal settlements in Kenya, where I found a lot of challenges and scenarios I had never seen in my life. I caught a lot of challenges, especially among the youth. Most of them were not cooperative enough. And I realized they were involved in different fun activities and mostly mocking, snatching, stealing, stopping, all sorts of things. And the girls were involved in prostitution, supporting these young boys to carry some scared weapons to other destinations in the form of carrying the baby. So it was so funny and so scary that I felt I should go back home because I had never seen such kind of things happening. Today I'm still there from 89. Today it's around 30, 31 years. Remaining in Korokocho just to find out exactly what makes these young people behave the way they behave. So by remaining there, I just wanted to see what can change and what's happening that cannot make a change to happen. Then fortunately the Kumboni missionaries arrived in 1992. So they also felt the same when they saw these young girls getting pregnant and doing a portion prostitution and just doing things which were really ethical. So they also felt it and they came up with a pro-life movement. This movement was to protect these young girls from involving these activities and then engage in a protective way of doing things. So we were part of the team with the Kumboni missions deployed to find out exactly how many young people were pregnant, how many had done a portion and what effects that they were really undergoing through. So around 1994 they started Kuteteo High project. This Kuteteo High project was to bring on board these girls, unfortunately boys were not involved, but the girls saw those challenges in life to come and then create skills. Because some of them were using these contraceptives. We had three cases which were taken in Nazaret. They were using kopa tea as a way of family planning. Then when they were keeping path, unfortunately they happened to cut path when they were having those kind of devices in their body. So it stuck in the head. So they were undergoing operations at Nazaret at the cost of the missionaries because it was very expensive. Insession might be free but removing becomes expensive. Some were using bills which made them also have complications in the body. So after a certain time of doing this job, missionaries come and go. So they left around 2005, the most prominent ones, for Daleks, Sanuteli and mother Jutereo they left. After leaving those who came, they found that they cannot do any training in Kurokocho because people are very poor. And this cause entails a lot of materials, a lot of equipment and now our girls are coming to support the missionaries. So as a result, they relocated from Kurokocho. So it means the abandoned Kurokocho remained the way it was. So but because we had involved in the same process, we felt we cannot leave our young girls remain the same. So we took up the task and started a rescue on the Brooklyn Community Environment Program. One, we were a team of five. This was my wife, Patrice, who was really out. She was one of the teachers who was trying to transform these girls. Myself, we had Barasa, we had Patrick, we had Lilian. So we really came out and said no, we cannot leave our community parish. And then we went and registered a CBO, which we named it as Resept. That is Rescued and Improved Community Environment Program. So officially we registered in 2012 just to take up the task and now the government know that we have really come out strongly to bring out some change in our community Kurokocho. So when we started, it was a pretty challenging because we didn't know we could really pick up because missionaries had a lot of resources. We don't have resources. So it was a trial and error. For the first year, we had a massive recruitment of around 65, both teenage mothers, single mothers and girls. So when they came on board, we used spiritual guidance through the people, we used life skills, we deployed some experts in life skills who came and just brought about total behavior change for three months. And then after first year, 2012, official registered, 2013, 2014, then we picked up. After picking up, we could also make it, although with little resources we had, but with the good will of our community, the neighbors and some well-wishers, we started and after that, we are still transforming the same. From hairdressing to tailoring, the organization eclips their apprentices with various hands-on skills. We are going to address and beauty. We have been through this course because of the community, we have been working in a drop school, we have been a member, we have been working in a drop school for school fees, we have been working in a drop school for a month, and then we went and started to use social media for our kids, which in the end is easier now. We have been working in a drop school for a month, but the school is running out of money. ngebu yu ikazi e tu within 3 mansu na hansi shukau kitengeni na sayu perso na hansi nuna mama wengi ya peanut ma pamba yuna peanut urembo tsa sa waist kosa perso, hati shilinge na msi nikiwa sikuwa wa waist kosa satu kwa ana yi o niji yi a mizuri, hati kama ama misasu ingini boyfrienda muma damba mpa me mtoto ama mwaja tsa sa akisha jua yu juicy ida futa e kazi yama hati hansi asa suka kwa mulango nakuwa nga sumesha na maikita na mithafitia kwa mula hata weiwa hwa sya nunguwa waza wajatama yumba Niko kukikundi na jiita bega kwa bega ya iko korokochi wa bega kwa bega kusabu imetoka ngambu ya korokochi wa ukuslam maria tuna fanya apa So, tukona e bidwa kwa tukona attendeize tuna fanya saiso baskets tuko famoja kusabu maramingi kuna wasitia na waluwa na kujia apa Na saidi wa kuhinua maisha yao, kuna wala wana ingiha shule kama iyo hair dressing, kuna wala wana kujapia pandey wana jifunza kazi abiduwa kuna ushiri kia no omzuri kwa sabutuna, kuna wala wana saidi kwa sana, nwa kitoka apa, kama wala wana mefanya izo kwa seza hair dressing, wana nda wana pata kazi kwa saluns. Na naninakama wana chao. Nkama wala nwa sabutuna pasikat umkwa. Sama, kutama su mafobu wa kha uchwa, kutama na indibuna kuchwa, hupia mafoduna kuhaduwa. So, uchwa nahoo mefru mafaduwa kuhadyuwa. Na za na chuduwa. We felt this was our target group, so we used to announce in the church those with young girls, teenage mothers, single mothers were doing nothing. They went to school maybe they never succeeded to complete class 8, formed 4 or they completed but they have no other way out. Instead of turning to ways which can ruin their life, we felt it's important they bring them to us. Then after that long process and also we used these village elders, the chiefs parasas also gave us a lot of support and when they gave us support they really came out strong and said what you are doing was very important and they send a word to the community members around in the chiefs parasas and we caught a number of them. Unfortunately they were not sponsoring them so when they came we felt you cannot return them away. So what we did, I remember for the first time we made an arambi where we involved the chiefs, the church community leaders and we cared some equipments to cater for them. What we do when we first engage them into our program, what we normally do is to