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Thriving Through Play
Kenya’s Ministry of Health (2021) highlights that 50% of all mental health cases begin before the age of 14 years, yet access to child focused mental health is overlooked.
Voices in play under the thriving through play project is a concept that aims to amplify the voices of children using play by combining approaches that involves clinical play for children with severe mental health condition and community play as a practice in Korogocho community.
The concept involves strengthening the already existing play spaces, identifying safe play spaces and linking children who may need additional clinical support for therapy support that leverages play therapy.
Another component to this concept is positive parenting, where parents and children will be encouraged to play together to improve communication and relationships.
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‘Mizizi’- Sustaining Community Voices
Across the country, over 70% of grassroots organizations are youth-led, yet only a fraction has access to flexible funding and strategic mentorship to grow.
Community Voices Network stands at the heart of this reality driven by young women leaders who carry lived experiences, resilience
and the trust of their communities.
‘Mizizi’ is a call for strengthened CVN internal systems and healthy, thriving and sustained staff, volunteers as a strategic investment. We cannot to lose our ‘Mizizi’ (roots).
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Empower Now
Adolescents and youth are now a compelling force influencing the community, national action and international action. Their mobilization is organic and advocacy action influential compelling action from relevant stakeholders and policy makers.
In advancing the #BilliNowNow movement, a billion brave young people, this project aims to empower adolescents and young people as a catalyst for change in promoting access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights through grassroots advocacy.
Rise & Rally AYSRHR National Youth Conveining
In 2025, Community Voices Network convened the #RiseAndRally Adolescents and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health National Youth Convening that has brought together 17+ youth-led organizations to co-create ways of collaborations and joint partnership amidst funding cuts and other emerging global and local challenges.
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PEIS Project
Community Voices Network implemented the Public Engagement Infrastructure Strengthening (PEIS) project through the Plot 10 Championship.
‘Plot 10’ is a concept that utilizes peer influence and urban slum community structures to promote a movement of young people who live and champion for food, climate, and health justice.
Through the PEIS project, CVN seeks to strengthen public participation and civic engagement by equipping youth with advocacy, storytelling, and organizing skills to influence policies that affect their daily lives. The initiative focuses on nurturing local champions who can mobilize their peers, engage decision-makers, and amplify community voices in shaping inclusive, sustainable, and equitable systems ensuring that young people are recognized not just as beneficiaries of development, but as active agents of change within their communities.
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Tukisonga
Community Voices Network (CVN) is a proud implementing partner of Tukisonga, a nationwide campaign aimed to at inciting difficult convervasations such us sex and reproductive health through youth peer to peer positive influence, film and digital technologies.
Tuki consist of Tuki Series, Wazzi SRHR referral pathway and community screening session using champions app.
In addition, CVN facilitated community screening sessions using the Champions App, an innovative digital tool that helps identify needs, track engagement, and ensure young people receive timely information and referrals.
Through these interventions, CVN continues to demonstrate its commitment to nurturing informed, confident, and empowered youth voices, moving communities from silence to shared understanding, and from awareness to action.
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Sauti Zetu
Sauti Zetu Community Hub is constituted of diverse groups of young people aged 15 –24 years who have been selected based on their lived experiences and commitment to advocate for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights and other Social justice issues.
The aim of the hub is to inspire knowledge exchange utilizing lived experiences and peer to peer personal development efforts tailored to build the capabilities and potentials of young people.
Sauti Zetu Hub Members are also referral points for Sexual Reproductive Health Services and information in their respective communities.
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Bonga Wellness
1 in 4 Kenyans who walk into a clinic have a mental health condition, yet services remain underfunded and unevenly distributed.
Alarmingly, only 10.3% of Kenyans living with common mental disorders receive professional support.
Bonga Wellness is a community mental health model that aims to bridge gaps in mental health access for adolescents by using an integrated and holistic approach.
Bonga Wellness recognizes that mental health challenges go beyond the lack of resources the problem is systemic, rooted in social stigma, limited community awareness, and inadequate support structures.