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About SAYDS

Planting seeds of change

Developing systems leaders that can facilitate lasting social change

SAYDS equips young people with complexity and systems thinking skills required to solve complex social problems. The SAYDS Fellowship is a 9-month program that equips young people from different parts of Kenya with knowledge that enables them to critically look at the social issues in their communities and design lasting solutions. We are now a growing community of citizens who want and are working towards a better nation and Africa.

Our Vision

Youth as systems leaders that facilitate lasting social change.

Our Mission

Tackling youth civic marginalization, exclusion, and disengagement so that youth are always meaningfully involved in governance, policy-making, and solving social problems in their communities.

Our approach

We use design thinking, science of learning concepts and various research methods to identify and design methods/strategies that can be used to effectively equip youth with practical skills that enable them to deeply examine complex problems and effectively solve them.

What We Do

If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together

We are a grassroots movement that brings youth to the forefront of bottom-up social change by nurturing a deeper sense of citizenship and responsibility for their communities and by equipping them with the skills to be civically engaged. SAYDS intends to build an ecosystem that coordinates a wide range of partners who provide a wide range of knowledge, skills and resources required to advocate for change in our communities. 

YOUTH-LED CHANGE

We work to ensure that youth are at the forefront leading initiatives for change because we believe that, given the appropriate tools and knowledge, they are capable of creating change.

SELF-LEARNING

We prefer to see youth taking charge of acquiring knowledge on complexity and systems thinking because we believe that given the right support, they are able to drive their own learning.

TEAMWORK

We work to build a participatory culture to ensure that deep learning occurs within teams.

CO-DESIGNING

We strive to work together with youth to analyze complex social problems and design solutions for them.

GLOBAL COLLABORATION

We reach out to a wide network of knowledge, experience, and resources to further our work and that of the youth.

FEEDBACK & LEARNING

We constantly seek accurate feedback and apply it in a timely manner to improve performance at all levels.

Our Process

What Makes Us Different?

We are unique because we strive to:

Increase the participation of youth that are capable of using complexity and systems thinking in addressing social problems.

Make it possible for youth to transfer the knowledge on complexity and systems thinking to a wide range of problems and contexts.

Promote, develop and sustain a high sense of self-efficacy among youth and support them as leaders in social change initiatives.

Facilitate the inclusion of youth in the policymaking system and in the work of other social change agents.

Become A Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers to join us. Are you interested in positive youth development, policy-making, social change, community development, nation building or any other related aspect of change? 

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