Teenagers Mentorship

The programs focus on keeping young people engaged in education, preparing them for adulthood, promoting a healthy lifestyle and reducing risky behaviors, such as drug use.

We concentrate our efforts on three core areas:

• Individual mentoring: a half to year-long, one-to-one relationship between an adult and a young person with the goal of empowering, inspiring, and motivating a more positive outlook for the future.
• Group mentoring: working with our corporate partners, we go out to junior high and high schools or our partner’s offices to run life skills training programs for students between the ages of 13-17 years old.
• Mentor talks: personal growth workshops designed to provide adults with the skills to enhance communication with the younger generation. Offered to partner employees, parents of mentor youth and even the public-at-large.

AGO’s programs are based on positive youth development research with the aim of building resilience in young people through protective factors. Studies have shown that having multiple positive adult relationships is one of the primary factors in preventing destructive behavior. This is the crux of our approach; that young people deserve positive and present adult role models.

Back To School Program

The deleterious outcomes that follow dropping out of school are well known. Dropouts are likely to experience problems such as poverty, incarceration, health issues, unemployment,
and economic hardship. To end these problems, schools have typically focused on dropout prevention instead of “recovering” and re-enrolling students who have al- ready dropped out of school.

Individuals who drop out of school do so for a myriad of reasons, including behavioral difficulties, academic failures, and poor relationships with teachers, pregnancy, and family or job obligations. Dropouts usually end up falling so far behind that they find it impossible to catch up. Given the fact that traditional schools are not set up in a way that is appropriate for all students and the tendency for the majority of most dropout efforts to be focused on prevention, it is essential that dropout recovery practices be implemented to recover the individuals for whom these prevention efforts were inadequate.

Capacity Building

Institutional Development is a key organizational priority area to AGO. It aims at effectiveness in implementing evidence based programming and organizational sustainability. AGO institutional strengthening program encompass capacity building and refreshers to its governance and management teams, together with the communities. This includes all its existing networks in Nairobi and the other additional areas. The capacity building intervention will enable efficient and effective implementation, and will allow the groups realize their own potentials and their roles in the communities. Strengthening of systems and structures is a key area that AGO will continue to develop by use of ICT strategies for effective communication and information sharing. AGO intends to expand its coverage and will therefore develop a comprehensive expansion plan to other parts of the country.