PREVENTION

Mentoring the next generation of leaders is one of SFT’s approaches to ensuring that change-makers are being mentored and trained into the next generation of leaders and change-makers to promote human rights, gender equality, peace, and security and to steer SFT’s vision in the future. Thrive Junior groups are comprise of teenage girls and boys based in Mathare Nairobi, Karinde Nairobi, Africa International University, and Bombolulu, Mombasa. The groups, comprising an average of 40 girls each convene regularly to share goals and keep each other accountable, learn, and grow together. Thrive Juniors are trained on how to keep themselves, their friends, and community safe and aware of human trafficking vulnerabilities and abuse.

The importance of knowledge as a tool for fighting against modern-day slavery in Kenya cannot be overemphasized. In our day-to-day activities, it is always glaring how a lack of knowledge or information about the manifestations of human trafficking in Kenya majorly contributes to modern-day slavery. 

Disbursing knowledge about modern-day slavery is the hallmark of STF’s awareness-raising activities amongst risk groups, such as children, underemployed or unemployed youth, and the public at large.

The program supports and empowers teenage mothers, encourages their continued education, and addresses the prevalent issue of gender-based violence amongst this vulnerable population. By utilizing the emergency starter kits as a contact point after they give birth to their babies, the project creates opportunities to initiate conversations about education and GBV, ultimately promoting a brighter future for teenage mothers in Kenya.

The high rate of unemployment has made a great number of Kenyans engage in unorthodox and trivial means of employment. Often, they end up seeking employment opportunities from employment agencies (some of which are nefarious with ulterior motives). A good number of recruited employees find themselves being subjected to modern-day slavery without feasible way outs of their employment dilemma.
Through liaising with registered and verified employment agencies, SFT together with the project’s beneficiaries (individuals and communities) are able to:
● Reduce incidences of modern-day slavery amongst those who are posted to work abroad through the employment agencies we are working with.
● Secure employment opportunities for repatriated returnees as well as those rescued domestically.
● Spur the creation of employment in the informal sector to absorb the rescued survivors of modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
● Reduce the number of underage and undocumented cases of these groups of the population gaining access to employment.