About us

Founded in 2007, Kamukunji Youth Congress (KYC) is a vibrant youth initiative that seeks to improve the position and conditions of the youth especially in the urban slums. Kamukunji Youth Congress (KYC) is an open and voluntary membership movement with membership from three the former Nairobi North District namely Kamukunji, Kasarani and Starehe. Situated and with a physical office in Pompano slums, Kamukunji District, Nairobi county.

 The founding mission of the youth congress was and still remains “to provide a shared platform for youth to ensure the improvement of their position and condition and address the socio, economic political disorders that continue to subject them to desperation, injustices and inhuman living conditions”. Throughout their work, the youth congress has endeavored to promote and enable youth leadership, participation and collective action in the continuum of good governance, transformation and as means for youth and development.

 The youth congress goal is to widen the requisite spaces that help spaces that helps to address injustices and thus promotes youth identity, dignity and acknowledges their different socio, economic and political needs.

The movement is constituted by 20 strong registered groups and networks with 5 strong community networks who share the same youth ideology.