Welcome to the pages of the Children and Youth Empowerment Centre (CYEC), Nyeri. The Centre is located approximately 175 kilometers north of Nairobi in the outskirts of Nyeri town, the administrative headquarters of both Nyeri East District and Kenya’s Central Province.

The CYEC is an initiative of the national program for street dwelling persons and is intended to play a central role in the innovation of holistic and sustainable solutions for the population of street dwelling young people in Kenya. For background on the CYEC, click here.

The CYEC Idea

The Children and Youth Empowerment Centre is conceived as a convergence point for people of different backgrounds to share experience, debate, research, experiment and consolidate knowledge concerning the empowerment of young people. Street dwelling children and youth are the central focus of the Centre’s activities by virtue of being one of the least empowered categories of young people in society.  See Who We Are.

Psychosocial reintegration is a central theme underlying all the Children and Youth Empowerment Centre’s activities. The aim of this activity line is not so much to promote any particular way of thinking or acting but to facilitate self understanding and equip participating young people with the tools for healthy interaction with their social and general environment.  See Programs.