MIRADI MITAANI:THE ROAD TO EMPOWERING WESTLANDS YOUTH BY TIM WANYONYI

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Hon Tim Wanyonyi issuing a motorbike to a youth group in Parklands Ward
Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi  is a calm, amiable, soft-spoken and gentleman. Tim is an anomaly in Kenyan politics because of his innovative servant leadership that breaks the barriers and build a bright future for the youth.

Youth engagement and youth empowerment are close to his heart. In his 2013 campaigns Hon Tim Wanyonyi promised the youth of his commitment to create new self employment opportunities. Through his innovative Miradi Mitaani the legislator has impacted more than 6000 youth who are self reliant.

Miradi Mitaani is an initiative designed to empower youth groups with Income Generating Activities (IGAs) that provide employment to the youth while increasing the income of the group members.

Hon Tim Wanyonyi (MP WESTLANDS) with Westlands Youth. in a past event.
It has gone a long way by targeting vulnerable youth who represent more than 50% of the Westlands population. These are youth who needed to be nurtured to gain positive attitudes towards economic independence through entrepreneurship.

Through the programme's first phase Hon Wanyonyi has issued equipment, tools and machines such as car wash machines, sewing machines, motorbikes, salon equipment, printing machines among others to more than 250 youth groups (6,000 members) from across the constituency . The equipment has been used by the youth to set up and expand their businesses that act as a direct source of employment. The youth are mainly drawn from the vast informal settlements of Githogoro, Deep Sea, Kibagare and Kangemi.

This has reduced idleness and vulnerability of many Westlands youth to participate in crime. The MIRADI MITAANI PROGRAM has given the youth in the constituency the opportunity to engage in self employment by acquiring grantss in the form of equipment or tools to engage in sustainable entrepreneurship.

As Hon Tim Wanyonyi seeks re-election in the August 2017 polls we can only expect a more intensive and expansive programme that resonates with the limited employment opportunities and innovative measures to empower the youth to be self employed.

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