Pleased to to see my convo with EU Amb to Ethiopia @JBorgstam during @EIB #AfricaDay2018   featured in @oneyoungworld's weekly wrapup of #OYW Ambassador news. Read more about my latest work here:

The Youth Cafe was selected, from a highly qualified pool of applicants, to exhibit at the Youth Exhibition of the UNODC Youth Workshop on Good Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption! The exhibition will be running during the duration of the workshop from 5 - 7 December 2018.

The Youth Cafe was one of the implementing organizations inveted to the participatory budgeting implementers, researchers, and funders from around the world in Barcelona, November 28 and 29, 2018 for Participatory Budgeting Exchange.

The Youth Cafe was represented at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference by two staff.We believe the youth possess the energy, knowledge and talents that can be harnessed to drive the growth of sustainable blue economy. Their inclusion in the relevant processes that create full employment and decent work for all is even more critical especially in turning the potential youth bulge into youth dividend.

The Youth Cafe’s Executive Director was one of the speakers at the 2018 International Conference for Participatory Democracy(OIDP).OIDP is the event of reference about participatory democracy at global level.

Willice Onyango took part in a Facebook Live during our Africa Day Conference.Here is the link to the Facebook Live. Feel free to share it with your network as well.It performed really well with over 330,000 impressions and close to 60,000 views.

I appreciate Willlice Onyango for his open advocacy and EU Ambassador, as well as the interviewer. Actually, we need to build the human resource capacity in other to have a better future and future leaders on the face of Africa. Through the support of The EU and World Bank, with other international students aid organization as well.

-Someone called George Carpenter who followed the session

Alongside our African and international partners such as UNIDO, at the EIB – as the Bank of the EU- we want to foster financial inclusion and support growth of the private sector, from the micro and small businesses to the larger ones.

-Werner Hoyer, EIB President

European Investment Bank,the European Union’s finance institution , invited Willice Onyango to offer closing speech on behalf of Africa’s youth in session 4 dedicated to “Leveraging human capital for industrialisation”, during its 4th EIB Africa Day jointly organised with UNIDO in Addis Ababa on Thursday 22 November 2018 on “Sustainable Industrialisation in Africa”.

Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs(SIPA) has selected a strong team of six Students from the Masters of International Affairs and Masters of Public Administration degree programs to work with The Youth Cafe this year on the "Kenyan youth issues forum" project.

In this conferemce,we shared our experiences collaborating with New-York based Virtual Reality Filmmaker Clàudia Prat this Summer to document auto-360 patchwork narratives  of the aftermath of raging floods that affected thousands of families in Narok and dive deep into recent massive cracks in the Rift Valley,leading geologists to conclude that Africa could be gradually splitting into two.

We further showed how working across disciplines(Virtual Reality,Climate Change advocacy,technology,community engagement,and journalism) we learned how to use 360-degree video cameras to film the communities impacted by climate change,the salience of  community indigenous community knowledge,and the possibilities of the immersive technology in producing collaborative Virtual Reality stories.

I believe that by documenting the changes in landscape, we can enhance the comprehension of  the problem that raising temperatures are having in our environment.I think virtual reality can help us both communicate the challenges provoked by climate change,point out to solutions we should adopt,as well as stimulate the wider dialogue around environmental conservation.

-Claudia Prat