Movers Picnic
Every month we have our Movers Picnic to have fun outside our building! In December we went to Arboretum and challenged our group to write down their wishes for people with epilepsy. See here the outcome!
Purple Day
Worldwide, the International Epilepsy Day is also known as the Purple Day. This is because the color purple or lavender is associated with epilepsy. It is on this day, 26th March that Youth on the Move made a splash with the color purple to begin a dialogue on epilepsy.
The event was held at the Lions Clinic in Huruma. Together with the Kenya Association for the Welfare of People with Epilepsy (KAWE), the day was a great success. The youth entertained and educated members of the public using skits and their own experiences while there were snacks to share and lots of interaction.
The Purple day was created to begin a dialogue on the little known Epilepsy condition. Now that the dialogue has been started in Kenya, it is time for everyone to get knowledge on this condition so that we can treat our brothers and sisters with epilepsy equally and with the dignity that every human being deserves.
- Youth on the Move members at the Mathare Clinic (Huruma Lions Clinic) during the Purple Day celebrations.
Ahead Together Festival
Youth on the Move took part in activities at the Ahead Together Festival. This Festival was held at the Splash, Carnivore as part of creating awareness especially to children, parents and teachers. The festival was organized by Norvatis and Kenya Association for the Welfare of People with epilepsy.
30th August 2008: Movers Festival
Georges Mwaura, youth coordinator YotM: pertaining to me the outcome of the event was just very awesome. As we were preparing nobody was expecting a huge large number of people because we had a lot of competitors in the same weekend. But thanks be given to God because we started well and ended well. As we were preparing for the dance and for the song we had at the beginning some difficulties but after some periods of time we wrote the lyrics for ourselves then such for people who could sing for us and we were all amazed when the song came out the lyrics we were so touching. Amongst us nobody could have ever thought that we could write a song which could end up becoming an anthem in our country and also the entire world because that has never happened.
My best moments during the preparations of the festival were when we were practicing the dance movements and shooting our video. Many non members were willing to join us in because we all seemed to be enjoying ourselves and deeply into that song of ours. For the dance practices at first it was very funny to see how the other youths were confusing the moves till the last there days to our festival that is when they all had mastered the move. All I know that this month of August will always be a memorable month to me because from the movers festival I got to go to areas which I have never thought of going. Thanks to the Youth on the Move organization because if it wasn’t for it bringing up together the youths who are living with epilepsy positively I could have never gotten the chances.
30th of May: Launch Youth on the Move Kenya
This Saturday we officially opened the Youth on the Move venue at Birongo Square in Nairobi West. The youth coordinators in training (Moses, Daina, Chris, George, Daphne and Augustino) took the honour to present our new programme. They shared their personal experiences with epilepsy and came with their demands to the government. George asks the government to finance the drugs for all people with epilepsy. And according to Daina the visits to the doctors should be free of charge as well. But most important according to them is that the government will support them in creating awareness on epilepsy so that they will be treated with respect and dignity like any one else.