It is seldom to find peace initiatives facilitated especially by members of parliament specifically targeting the youth. Most politicians have always manipulated the youth as hecklers and agents of confrontation during elections. MP of Kisumu Town East, Hon Shakil Shabir has outshined most members of parliaments by devoting and investing support to Kisumu youth across the neighbouring consituencies.
The MP has financed various youth projects targeting the violence hotspot areas like Kondele, Manyatta and Nyalenda. The projects are mainly income generating, environmental conservation and social welfares. The MP has acquired ECOSAN toilets for the youth groups who are engaged in ecological sanitation. Tivoli Youth Trust has been given six toilets, which are to be used health facilities in Nyaleda Slums. Tivoli is a reformed group of youth, who were part of the outlawed BAGDAD Boys. They have economic activities, which they are engaged thus have productively engaged.
Mr. Shabir has also provided computers to youth and women groups in line of information and communication technological advancement. Members of such groups are training for computer literacy. They are connecting to the rest of the world through internet at the same time they have access to peacebuilding and development information, which are the core component of nationalism.
The only Asian MP in the country has guaranteed more peace stabilizing undertakings in the Greater Kisumu Constituencies especilially with the youth and women. The Member of Parliament is always available on the weekends though Mondays and fascinatingly he is the only MP who has managed to stay closest not only to his consitituents but to neighbouring constituents as well.
Some of Tivoli Youth members have benefited from the Partners for Peace Projec of the EU and KONRAD courtesy of CIAG-Kenya.
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