Manyatta Youth Entertainment - (MAYE)
Manyatta Youth Entertainment CBO famously known as MAYE; is an art for social change, notfor-profit youth-led Community Based Organization (CBO) with active social footprints in Mombasa, Kwale, and Kilifi Counties within the coastal region of Kenya. Founded in 2007 and later in 2011 established as a Youth led and Youth serving Community based organization, is focused on providing young people, especially the highly disadvantaged and marginalized a viable platform on which they can openly address issues affecting them and their grassroots communities, such as the promotion of community resilience, sexual reproductive Rights-SRHR, Mental health, social accountability, and socio-economic justice, besides engaging in creative, theatrical and innovative means to formulate sustainable solutions to challenges affecting the society. MAYE provides a forum for positive engagement, dialogue, and interaction with the other existing institutions, the various other religious bodies, the private sector, and the government through arts, sports, Online and Social media to champion sustainable peace and violence prevention among youth, women, and children in local communities. For more than 10 years, MAYE has been instrumental in triggering social change and during the transformational agenda in the lives of young people and coastal communities. Today, we are called to sharpen our focus, deepen our impact, and clarify our values and practices so that we are best prepared to fulfill our mission and make a positive impact on young people and society in general.