 Meza mwiazu naja kwa z kantumia, mwiazu naja kwa lisa wiazu naja kolio kwa k signing kwa issi kwa sik話 kuwa wika, obuwa seghwita kwa baka mwiamiazu maa mwiazu, wiwa moza mweni cha mwiazu, maa ga mwiazu naja kwa kwa stunwa kurut Nightshade Namigraha. Kwa mwiazu, kwa kwa mwiazu, Nami na, Evansu, wa kwa wiazu ntavwiazu ya kwa matikumpo, ntavwiazu naja hizi kwa maaype. In Kenya, we are doing the work of leading the youth through mind education. So through mind education we want to change fast from the way people they think about situations, how they solve problems, how they interact with other people. This is the aspect we want to concentrate on. In Kenya we have so many NGOs, most dealing with the economic development of the society. But for us we are looking at the world of the mind. Okay interesting and we will delve into that later on. But we also want to know what is IYF, International Youth Fellowship, what are you all about because our audience now is the youth and you are working with the youth and how do you engage the youth? So IYF actually is I can consider it the largest youth organization we have currently across the world. The programs that we are doing for the youth fast is empowerment. We have many youth who are away from school. There is a big gap of youth who could not be able to enter into the formal system of education. We want to use empowerment to train this youth. So we have our center that is off Tikarot behind the Safarepa Kotel. In that place we have a youth center where we handle programs in the weekend. We have IYF weekend academy. In that weekend academy we are teaching around 18 courses, basic courses starting from air and beauty, ranging from computer, the dance that you just saw here. In all these courses we want to give them the basic skills that they can be able to use even if they did not have formal education or they could not be able to continue their studies, they can be able to use that to maybe start something on their own. Also we have an overseas volunteer program where now these youth that we have interacted with at different platforms we give them an opportunity to go to another country for 11 months. In those 11 months they interact, they engage the programs of the youth in that as they come back they have a broadened perspective about life, about what they want to do with their life. Apart from that we have a very active performance teams. We use also culture. As you saw here we have done more than culture. We use culture as a food leadership training because many people they are stereotypes about other people's culture. But if you take away that stereotype actually the world can be able to come together. The main pillars of IYF is the challenge, change and the cohesion because we believe the youth they face a lot of challenges in their life and these challenges they bring them down. But we want to overcome those challenges and then they can be able to change the way they think. When they change then automatically cohesion comes. So using those pillars we try to do our programs revolving the three main motives. Alright, I like that. Now into mind education I also understand just from research and getting to know about you that this is a concept that was borrowed from South Korea. So how is that working? How exactly do you change how someone thinks and how does this benefit someone before you start now engaging them in the different courses that are there? Yes, so mind education is a new concept that we have brought in to talk about the invisible world. People you don't see the wind but you believe the wind exists because you can be able to see the effects it moving trees, turning the windmills and such and producing energy. Even though you cannot see the wind the wind has a power behind it that is pushing it. So South Korea in the 1960s to 1970s we were almost the same economic level. If you check in the history of the national archives actually in the year I think 1963 after we got independence 1964 we also gave a grant to South Korea that time was around 100,000 Keneshili. Back then. But flash forward now 60 years later South Korea has become one of the top 10 most economic countries. There is a reason behind it. If you check in the economic growth in 60 years they have grown 300 times. If you compare with other countries there is no other country that has the fastest growth as South Korea. But if you check on the physical conditions of South Korea South Korea is a landlocked country. To the east is the sea, to the west is the sea to the south is the sea, to the north is the enemy North Korea. So they have no way to if it is resources they were conquered by Japan for 35 years and in that 5 years Japan planted everything of South Korea. So after that they had the Korea and all they separated north and south. And after that now South Korea was left with nothing. And the president who came then he realized we cannot be able to grow South Korea from the physical aspects. We need fast to change the mindset of the people. That is why he started the program he called the new village movement. The new village movement focused on making people patriots to love their country instead of building the roads like we do. They provide materials and the people they build routes for themselves. It is to build an hospital they provide the materials people they build the hospitals by themselves. So by changing this they set up even speakers within the city centers and they could play patriotic songs or they started a program where every week once someone comes out of your house and cleans the compound outside your house. A change that people now they embraced the country they loved the country and now they made they worked for the country. So he sent so many human resources into Germany into other countries so that they can be able to bring in the foreign exchange. So flash forward now South Korea is giving aid even to Kenya. Because of the concept not because of anything else but because the people themselves they were changed. So we need to lead our youth fast even before the economic empowerment because even if you give a money to a mind that is not empowered in terms of the world of minds it will just be plundered but if you teach them how to be able to control in mind education we have different topics we cover the relationship between design and self control we speak about the heart to trust in themselves we teach people to enter into misery we have topics that majorly they focus on the world that you cannot be able to see but we say like a river there is a way the heart is flowing water cannot go uphill it goes down here the same way the heart of people flows following a certain direction so being a Christian organization we borrow a lot from the Bible because Bible scholars they say in the Bible it means there is no other book that can be able to express about the world of the heart more than the Bible it gives a very big story in Luke chapter 15 of the prodigosan it has six stages someone who trusted in himself took his money went to a far country we stayed his money in that trust then he came back to his father's house there is a flow of his heart he came from trusting in himself he failed after that he neglected he came back to his father's house so this concept we want to impact it through the youth so we use different mediums one we do workshops we do trainings but the biggest platform you cannot just call the youth and put them in a seminar and teach them we arrange programs that are youth friendly first we have the IOF weekend academy it is a project that is partnered with the talent isle project under the ministry of youth so you are partnered with the ministry of youth so that is a good thing being a free program there are many youth that are unemployed there is this notion that people usually have I believe it is true when you give people something free maybe it is not valued as much as something that you pay for and that is why many programs that are usually charged for mentorship and all that peg some amount of money to it so for you now that you offer the courses for free how is the reception like do they embrace it do they go further after they get to learn actually this coming Saturday on 18th we have a graduation if you check the tradition of their growth we started post covid from last year 2022 now we are graduating season 4 now on Saturday we are graduating 800 students so if you consider the growth yes when you say it is free sometimes people take it as a light program but now when they come incorporating the mind education concept everything changes when you want to fish you throw a bait and when you throw a bait you bring this youth together now you can train them on mind education so the impact has been very great we have very positive real stories that we can be able to share with the society and show them that people they can be able to change if I can give example especially now the world is moving towards technology the more people are becoming more techno savvy in terms of working place Kenya is still an analog country because if you check the weekend academy that we run almost 30% of the students who come there they come for computer computer is a basic course people they think just because they are using smartphones they are using this now Kenya is digital but even in Nairobi we have so many people who are still computer retreat who cannot be able to do basic work on a computer so moving from there actually we start from those basic components that they can be able to use in the field so the reception the way that now is expanding very well even in Nairobi now at our center we cannot handle this number that is why we have partnered with the ministry of youth to start in our regions so this time we did in Komarok which is the Ava Youth Center there next season that is coming in January we want to use in Uare we want to expand it to Tala going outside Nairobi because if you go even outside Nairobi even more youths are there so we need to take away the notion of employment from the youth we need to give them the basic skills that they need so that they can be able to grow their life if you compare countries like South Korea where IOF is coming from the founder of IOF is from South Korea from the training of the youth they start branching off to their careers where they are still very young if they want to do music they start doing instrument as alias 5 years 10 years but most of our students after now they complete school the first course they are thinking now I need to do computer after you have finished the phone so we need to change that mindset starting from those levels from the early age before we close this conversation if there is someone watching and maybe they are wondering how can they join what are some of the qualifications that you look out for does one have to be unemployed to get the certain age limit that you allow and what are the factors so IOF Tala makes program that is why we don't specify age we have a program running from the students those who are in high school going up to 17 years then we have a program for youth 18 to 35 then we have a program for youth leaders youth leaders seniors above 35 but our programs are tailor made if we engage if there are some youth who are out there they want to engage with us at any level whether you are in school we establish this IOF as a club in universities and colleges so that also those youth who are there if they cannot come to our center we can take these programs to them so we are not very technical in terms of checking what they have done because we believe what we want to give them is more valuable so we don't consider also things like your level of education whether you are working or not working if you really have the interest to learn we want to receive such youth and also train them how does one apply for it IOF is on all our social media is IOF Kenya if you go to our website which is IOFKNIA.org IOFKNIA.org we have our programs outline there we also have a phone number is 0708 triple 3 triple 4 0708 triple 3 triple 4 so is an office line through that line you can be able to register now we have opened the link for next season which is weekend academy at IOFKNIA.org so with that site they can go there book a course because we fill the courses and close them we fill and we cost next year we have expanded a little bit for 2,000 people so that you can be able to cater for accommodate more people for how long does one season run their course is basically 3 months 3 months and you can only do one course so that you can be able to cater for more people we do it starting from Saturday and Sunday because most people whether they are in school or at work they can still do something so Saturday and Sunday for 3 months and then we graduate that we receive another cohort awesome thank you very much for coming and I love what you are doing for the youth empowering the youth and changing their mindsets I think it's a good thing to do especially in this tough economic time for most people giving someone the ability to do it themselves not wait for the government to come in and what not so you've said they can get you on social media at IYF Kenya and then on sale it's 0708 triple 3 triple 4 I have gotten that thank you very much friends again thank you very much for hosting us so that has been Ivan Smutinga who is our mind education specialist from IYF IYF is International Youth Fellowship they empower youth you've had all about it so you can follow them or you can join them if you want that's where I put a cap on this but there's more to come Grace will be coming on with the next very interesting interview so stick with us the hashtag is one the morning or there's devives