2.Talent Spot

S.I.P.E appreciates the central role the youth play in our society. Talent spot is a platform that has been designed towards offering these youth with an opportunity to tap their talents into empowerment. This ensures that the youth engage in meaningful activities rather than engaging in peace threatening activities and criminal ventures. Most a time, youths are used to cause chaos and as voting machines just to be disposed off after elections. Instead of being used constructively, they are used destructively and thus they have been portrayed as guns for hire. Unemployment leading to frustration and idleness contributes to this. As an NGO, we can authoritatively say that this is an intentional mechanism by the political class, make them poor and rule over them. This forms the basis of our efforts. Youths must shun this misuse rule at all costs regardless of their employment and social status. The informal poor urban and rural settings have remained vulnerable because majority do not have constructive employment.

These programs include:

1. Special arts/Talents Incubation

These encompasses short skills/talent and Entrepreneurship incubation and apprenticeship programs

• Information Communication Technology (ICT)
• Fashion, Hairdressing and beauty
• Cottage industry manufacturing skill
• Entrepreneurship Incubation
• Drama and art for peaceful coexistence
• Tailoring and Embroidery
• Computer literacy Program

These are 1-9 months courses meant to equip the youth with skills that can make them self reliant. The courses are offered at a subsidized fee for affordability and sustainability of the programs. Free things breed dependency syndrome and lack of confidence on the side of the beneficiary and therefore we encourage some kind of cost sharing to ensure sustainability of the projects we run. Through our subsidiary private social enterprise Hub called Uwezo Accelerated and Tech Hub we have managed to accelerate inner talents and nurture future entrepreneurs to help us achieve this objective with a clear focus on rural and the poor urban population. This hub is based in Kakamega county at Mumias town. You can have a review of what this hub does by accessing www.uwezohub.com and appreciate our great work.

 Drama and theatrics shall not only be used as entertainment tools but also as channels for preaching peace, speaking against negative ethnicity and teaching our society on many virtues of constructive living. Peace cannot be forced but can only be voluntarily cultivated in society. It must come from inner self and that is why an armed policeman cannot bring peace, it is not cosmetic. Armories can only assure us of calm which does not mean absence of war.

1. Sports and Special arts

We are lobbying for partnerships to put up a Sports and Talent academy that will help nurture many sports and other special talents that lie untapped among our youth. This will not only engage them but can spur them to long term careers. Beside, occupying them and thus eliminating idleness that is always tapped by politicians to cause war and tribalism in the society. This forms the basis of our origin. Recall, our history as an organization emanates from the war and political violence Kenya experienced in the year 2007 and 1300 of our brothers and sisters lost their life and scores of Kenyans displaced. It was such a pity. SIPE was formed on this basis.

1. Community Institutes-                  Through this initiative we train volunteers in all areas of peace and dispatch them as ambassadors of peace in society. This is coined as AMBASSADORS OF PEACE PROGRAM. We achieve this through community organized institutes dubbed Community Institutes for Peace Education (CIPEs), they are formed and managed by and for the community. We also organize clean up and environmental conservation exercises that are also geared towards bringing members of the community together to fight a common course. Without a safe environment, there is no peace. Exhibitions and provision of platforms to show case innovative ideas. Sensitization on HIV/AIDS ,Drug abuse, domestic violence, child formation, civic education, early pregnancies, teenage marriages, Economic growth and self empowerment free workshops. Free Mobile peace library services. Free guiding and counseling for the Youths.We also provide attachment and internship opportunities for college trainees in the area of peace,conflict management, disaster preparedness, social work, community development, Ngo management and other related areas.Under this initiative we also coach, mentor and nurture TRANSFORMATIVE AND SERVANTLEADERSHIP.  The world is crying for great leaders, where are the leaders? How many youths have buried their dream of being great leaders in the name of followers? How many inborn CEOs have we seen being buried without being realizing their dream? Leadership is a skill that can be provoked in a person then be nurtured to a great servant leader. SIPE has realized that many youths have the inner leadership qualities that are never given the opportunity to sprout out and therefore our main focus is to ensure that the untapped leadership acumen in youths is realized, nurtured and accelerated. We therefore nurture the great leaders.