“Pablo Picasso” Art Class @ Korando School

Today’s art theme was Pablo Picasso. Besides artwork, this class was meant to inform the kids about Pablo Picasso, who is considered the greatest artist of the 20th century. He painted in a number of …

Activity Reports

English Class on “Plural” @ Remand Home

English Class on “Plural” @ Remand Home

The class started with some stretching to make everyone alert. Then it proceeded with an explanation on the board, first about regular plural form and then about the irregular plural form, which was t…

Chapati Festival @ Ebenezer Children’s Home

Chapati Festival @ Ebenezer Children’s Home

Upon arrival, all the kids, staff of the Children’s home, and volunteers gathered in the hall for introductions and a time for spiritual nourishment. We later developed groups called “knowledge academ…

Sport for Wellness Easter Edition @ Remand Home

Sport for Wellness Easter Edition @ Remand Home

The engagement was a platform for showing how children within statutory institutions can be responsible in terms of behavior and how they can deal with social issues they are facing in the community. …

Life Skills Lesson on Peer Pressure @ Remand Home

Life Skills Lesson on Peer Pressure @ Remand Home

We started the lesson by introducing the topic of peer pressure to them. We discussed different types of peers and both positive and negative peer pressure. At the end, we engaged in a discussion abou…

Team Building Session with Homeless of Kisumu

Team Building Session with Homeless of Kisumu

We had the opportunity to do a joint team-building workshop lead by Zoey, Katrin, and Freja with our partners at Homeless of Kisumu. The day was filled with many laughs during all the fun games and th…

Jihimarishe Festival @ Remand Home

Jihimarishe Festival @ Remand Home

The day was filled with a series of events, starting with a career class aimed at exposing the minors to careers they may not have imagined. They had the opportunity to learn about careers that align …

Life Skills Lesson on Feelings @ Remand Home

Life Skills Lesson on Feelings @ Remand Home

At the beginning, we played a game by rolling the dice and answering one of six questions we had written on the board. Following this, we engaged in a discussion about feelings and how to handle them …

Courtesy Call to New Homeless of Kisumu Hub

Courtesy Call to New Homeless of Kisumu Hub

Homeless of Kisumu inaugurated a new office, which serves as a safe space and hub for numerous programs targeting young people and women. It functions as a central platform for knowledge exchange, cap…

English Class on Future Tense @ Remand Home

English Class on Future Tense @ Remand Home

The class was taught how to use the future tense in English. Initially, a thorough explanation was provided on the board, collectively discussing the usage of “will,” “will not,” and “going to” in com…

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Considering that this is a globally recognized day, celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, we deliberately directed our attention towards determining if rural…

Team Building Fun Session @ Jijenge Youth

Team Building Fun Session @ Jijenge Youth

We completed part one of a two part activity on Thursday. We facilitated a very fun team competition to illustrate team work and how people can work to achieve the same goals in different ways. The da…

Vision and Goal Setting @ Remand Home

Vision and Goal Setting @ Remand Home

The activity was held to help the kids know their goals, desires, and their visions for the future. We introduced the lesson to the kids by defining what goals and vision meant. We gave examples in ea…

“Rugby Roar” English Lesson @ The Remand Home

“Rugby Roar” English Lesson @ The Remand Home

This week, we began Chapter Two of “Rugby Roar” with the older class at the Remand Home. We kicked off with a game, followed by a review of both old and new vocabulary. Then, we read through the first…

Rugby Roar English Class @ Remand Home

Rugby Roar English Class @ Remand Home

We used the unknown words from last weeks reading of Rugby Roar, to facilitate more English teaching. We played fishbowl, talked about the words, and completed written sentences. …

Kids Camp @ Korando Educational Centre

Kids Camp @ Korando Educational Centre

We planned and hosted a camp for kids from PP1 to Grade 4. It consisted of three hours of both Kenyan and American children’s games, including duck duck goose, red light green light, and ninja. We con…

Academic Success and O.K.Rs @ Kuoyo Secondary

Academic Success and O.K.Rs @ Kuoyo Secondary

There were two focuses of this session. There was a YUMP talk given about Academic success and O.K.R.s in HighSchool. There was also a survey conducted with 20 girls about menstrual hygiene. …

Decision Making in 6 Steps @ Korando

Decision Making in 6 Steps @ Korando

We taught our decision making in 6 steps as a YUMP session at Korando. We discussed how to differentiate between a good and bad decision and how to approach big decisions in life. …

Time Management @ St. Williams

Time Management @ St. Williams

This talk was held to help kids to be able to plan through and run their errands effectively while considering the time factor in all their daily activities. Train them on how to properly carry out …

“Topical Review” English Class @ Remand Home

“Topical Review” English Class @ Remand Home

We had a class with the little kids, reviewing two topics that we had taught earlier. This was done to check whether the kids could recall what they had been taught. It was really necessary for the ki…

Cultural Competency @ Jijenge Youth

Cultural Competency @ Jijenge Youth

-The purpose of this talk was to educate the youths on the role of cultural competence as the ability of an individual to understand and respect values, attitudes, beliefs, and mores that differ acros…

Introductory Session: Kudho Secondary School

Introductory Session: Kudho Secondary School

Since it was the first session with the group, the idea was to introduce the Youth Unleashed Mentorship Program to the group of Form 1 and Form 2 Boys.
We also wanted to find out what topics the stude…

English Class @ Remand Home

English Class @ Remand Home

We worked with worksheets to facilitate the development of speaking in the English language, and then worked on translating words from Kiswahili to english while looking at grammatical tenses….

Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home

Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home

We continue the successful work that has started the past weeks. This report covers two activities of the same kind as part of a string (Tue, 30.01. / Fri, 02.02.). Like the past weeks, it is still a …

German Alphabet and Numbers @ Kudho Secondary School

German Alphabet and Numbers @ Kudho Secondary School

This week a number of follow up sessions were held for students in “Form 1”. These students do have their first German language classes these days. This time the following topics were covered

* Alpha…

Art Therapy Session on Navigating Fear @ Korando

Art Therapy Session on Navigating Fear @ Korando

I like to think that the opposite emotion of Love is fear. That while love makes us feel whole, present and grounded, fear gives us the illusion of loss, makes us live in our mind more than reality, l…

Initial German Class @ Kudho Secondary School

Initial German Class @ Kudho Secondary School

It was the very first German class for this particular class. It was also the very first school class held by anyone from within the Better Me organisation.

Students did have their initial German cla…

Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home

Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home

We continue the successful work that has started the past weeks. This report covers two activities of the same kind as part of a string (Tue, 23.02. / Fri, 26.02., each from 10 am to 12 pm).

It turne…

“Self-Identity” Art Therapy Session @ Korando

“Self-Identity” Art Therapy Session @ Korando

While purposing to bring to light an awareness of self for the children, it is important to use the known to explain the unknown, in this case the known being things in nature to tackle the concept of…

Open Session @ St. Williams Education Centre

Open Session @ St. Williams Education Centre

This was the initial session with the students at the St. Williams primary. Specifically for the 7th and 8th grade however Madda and me have picked grade 8. After a short introduction by the volunteer…

Art Therapy Session on Self-Reflection @ Korando

Art Therapy Session on Self-Reflection @ Korando

The aim of art therapy session at Korando is to help raise the consciousness of the children by helping them become aware of their essence and true identity. Nature, being the bigger reflection of thi…

Self-Confidence Lesson @ Remand Home

Self-Confidence Lesson @ Remand Home

Self-confidence is such a grounding aspect of the self. It is the root that anchors our self worth, self esteem and our ability to express ourselves fearlessly and authentically. In our session, we hi…

Open Session @ Remand Home

Open Session @ Remand Home

This open session was intended to encourage children to draw. They got inspirations by volunteers who provided examples of drawings that can express emotions or thoughts dominating the children’s curr…

Computer Class for 8th Grade @ Korando

Computer Class for 8th Grade @ Korando

This was the initial computer class for the 8th grade at the Korando Educational Center in 2024. After a short introduction by the volunteer we started an open discussion about computers in general. T…

Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home

Translating Swahili to English @ Remand Home

The purpose of this activity was to introduce a different way of teaching by using Swahili language in addition to pictures. Students did have to name the English term based on either the image or Swa…

Life skills on Emotions @ Remand Home

Life skills on Emotions @ Remand Home

It was a great chance to talk about emotions with kids. We prepared a sheet for everyone. The sheet shows different pictures of emotions and talk about those. Kids and volunteers talked about their ow…

Year End Recap @ Remand Home

Year End Recap @ Remand Home

The purpose of the year-end open review was to evaluate the program’s impact on the boys and girls at the Remand Home, assess their feedback, and identify areas for improvement and growth for the upco…

Mobile Library Session @ Nyalenda Slums

Mobile Library Session @ Nyalenda Slums

It was beautiful to see how the kids at the slums saw us passing, and they could recognize it was for the Mobile Library. They kept on inviting others. The group got bigger even before we arrived at t…

Mental Wellness for Medics @ Maseno University

Mental Wellness for Medics @ Maseno University

Various panelists were invited to engage in an interactive session with medical students from the School of Medicine at both Maseno and Uzima University. The discussion topics included the ideal struc…

English Class “Use of Apostrophe” @ Remand Home

English Class “Use of Apostrophe” @ Remand Home

The purpose of the activity was to introduce and teach the concept of shortening words or statements using apostrophes, engaging students in practical, hands-on exercises that reinforce learning throu…

The Life Tree Concept @ Remand Home

The Life Tree Concept @ Remand Home

The concept of the life tree aims to shed light on uncomfortable emotions. Similar to the roots of a tree, these emotions provide depth, and we can use the experiences gained from them to improve how …

Psychologists Meet Up and Debriefing Workshop

Psychologists Meet Up and Debriefing Workshop

This event brought together Practising Psychologists from Kisumu County to discuss issues relevant to the delivery of their services, and emerging trends to create a stronger platform that fosters col…

Chapati Festival at the Kisumu Children Remand Home

Chapati Festival at the Kisumu Children Remand Home

We had an eventful day, having an opportunity with the children at the remand home. It was a timely and long awaited moment to share knowledge, fun, food and other activities.
The day began very earl…

English Class “Dictation” @ Remand Home

English Class “Dictation” @ Remand Home

The purpose of the exercise was to assess and improve the spelling skills of kids through a dictation exercise, creating a supportive and engaging learning environment for students to enhance their sp…

Open Life Skills Session at the Remand Home

Open Life Skills Session at the Remand Home

We had an open discussion about the common challenges young people are facing in the community, especially the boys. This was a personal question and everyone had an opportunity to express himself.

Achego Orphanage Chapati Festival

Achego Orphanage Chapati Festival

Chapati Festival is a quarterly activity we run in partnership with Jijenge youth organization to reach out to the less privileged. It is composed of entertainment, opportunity to share delicious meal…

Talentshow @ Kisumu Children Remand Home

Talentshow @ Kisumu Children Remand Home

Our purpose to facilitate the talent show at the Remand Home was to give the children a chance to perform and express their talents. Our aim was to plan a day that lightens up their moods and empowers…