PENHA in the United Kingdom

PENHA has been working for 30 years on development issues in Africa alongside pastoral communities. Young people from UK and globally have played an important role.

We enhance UK youth engagement in and awareness of development issues. We do this by building youth capacity in development programmes, providing support and mentoring activities to tackle diverse challenges faced by young people. We address unemployment and migration, and a lack of practical work experience at the grassroots level. Especially among young people who come from the Horn of Africa, who also face problems of cohesion and integration to UK society.

Broadly the objective of our work in the UK is to address young peoples’ psychosocial and economic problems by building development issues awareness, improving cohesion, and employability.

The core objectives are:
1) Enhance young peoples’ awareness of development issues and make them global players

2) Cultivate a proper understanding of North-South development partnership

3) Engage youth on environmentally sustainable development projects

4) Develop youth skills in managing regional and international civil societies and produce young leaders

5) Open opportunitiese for young people to learn project management and leadership skills

6) Facilitate young refugees integration and cohesion to be productive citizens

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