3rd PILLAR
Life Skills
Under our Life Skills pillar we provide mentorship and training specifically focused on the mental-emotional wellbeing.
Our flagship program here is YUMP, which stands for Youth Unleashed Mentorship Program.
Our activies are designed to be playful and engaging, while teaching specific tools that students are able to apply in their own lives. These include mindfulness techniques, stress management, self-love, change of habits, buildng self-esteem and self-discipline, building good relationships and much more.
10k+
CHILDREN & YOUTH
REACHED
40+
PLATFORMS &
PARTNERS
Watch us in action
Together with our partners, we unleash over 10,000 children & youth every year.
Life-Skills Updates
Life skill class about mental health at Korando and St.Williams
In this life skill lesson we talked about Mental health. We started with a game outside, named “step over the line if…” We gave the kids situations or questions and if they experienced this or they fe…
Remand Home Life skills Session on Critical Thinking
During this session we discussed the topic of critical thinking. This
included the 5 steps of critical thinking; decision making, problem
solving, reasoning, evaluation and analyzing. Ruth Obilo and Y…
“Thank you for saving my life” – Success story from the Kisumu Children’s Remand Home
“Thank you so much for saving my life”. These simple words coming from a 12-year old boy while tears were rolling down his cheeks was enough to make...
How I broke through fear – Emily from the U.S.
My breakthrough experience Hi, I'm Emily from the United States, an intern at Better Me Kenya. If you had asked me a month ago how much my...
Hope for Homeless Children
Homeless of Kisumu We have been committed to transforming the lives of children in Kenya and this has been consistently shown with the work we do in...
Spring Camp “Adventure Begins”
The Camp Adventure Begins: “Unusual, exciting, daring” The camp was born out of the desire to nurture the mental wellbeing of the children at...