Welcome To WeRise Africa

Our Mission

To inspire communities to harness their power to achieve sustainable development.

Our Vision

An equitable society where men and women enjoy their rights.

Our Core Values

Commitment, Transparency, Equality, Reliability, Diversity.

Our Story

WeRise Africa is a local organization based in Mombasa County working to harnessing the power of local communities to achieve sustainable development. In order to achieve this, WeRise Africa develops and initiates interventions on program areas such as: peace and cohesion, ending forms of gender violence, youth and leadership and education. The organization was initiated in 2019 and officially registered in 2021 under the laws of Kenya as a community based organization.

Our office is situated in Nyali Sub-county.

Our Programmes

Peace & Cohesion

The objective of this pillar is to create awareness and build community’s capacities and skills in Mombasa County to come up with ways of mitigating conflicts for sustainable peace. This is done through awareness raising, community sensitizations, community dialogues, research and capacity development etc. with a view of creating a culture of peace

Education

In order to achieve access to quality education for children in Mombasa County and contribute to addressing social barriers to education, this pillar aims at developing programs that advocate for children access to education. This is done through partnerships with local schools and actors, sensitization, dialogues, capacity building, research and documentation etc.

Youth & Leadership

Young people being at the centre stage of the organization, this pillar aims at building Mombasa youth capacities to identify and harness their knowledge to become future leaders. This is through capacity building, exchange programs and facilitating &providing safe spaces to explore their capabilities.

Ending Gender Based Violence

This pillar aims at developing programs that contribute to ending forms of violence against both men and women in Mombasa County through lobbying and advocacy, sensitizations, collaboration & partnerships and enhancing community knowledge.

Projects

Promoting social cohesion and freedom of religion and belief for the youth and religious minorities in Mombasa County.

This project is supported by the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) and it seeks to engage communities during the post-electoral period especially the youth, state actors, religious leaders, women, and men by building their capacity for religious literacy, religious minority rights, and interfaith dialogue through training, interfaith dialogue, faith acts social events and the house of worship visits.

Global Youth Mobilization

WeRise Africa is currently Building Resilience in Mental Health among the Youth in Mombasa County. The projects seek to create awareness of mental health issues through football. The project targets youth between the ages of 15- 30 years old. The project employs capacity building, awareness raising, and partnerships. More than 1,000 youth have benefitted from this initiative since its inception.

Yetu Program

Since the beginning of the year,2021, WeRise Africa has been part of the Yetu Initiative for local resource mobilization for organizations around Kenya. This campaign at using local resources for organizational initiatives, both monetary and in-kind support. WeRise Africa continued to support local teams of young boys and girls benefitting 1100 around Mombasa County on mental health issues that result in depression and drugs and substance abuse, criminality among others.