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Voluntary Youth Philanthropists (VYP)is a Non Profit organization registered

in Kenya. The organization was startedin 2000 as a youth centered organizationwith the objective of facilitating youthempowerment. Piga Nduru is one of thetools that are being used by theorganization towards the achievementof VYPs goals and objectives.

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Piga Nduruis a Swahili phrase meaning shoutto raise an alarm. Piga Nduruis a campaigntargeting young Kenyans who make up the biggerpercentage of Kenyans with a view of mobilizing

them to become public monitors and forge atradition of social accountability amongst thecitizens.

Piga Nduruencourages citizens to raise an alarmthrough the use of text messages and also byposting the wrongs they witness being committedin their areas into the piga nduru online platform.

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Create strategic options on how to include youth inconflict early warning signs reporting and engagethem in unified ways of responding to the signs.

Encourage more youth involvement/scrutiny/

intervention in activities that are potential threats tothe peaceful co-existence before, during and after theforth coming elections period in a youth friendlyway.

Create an online platform where those following thesecurity situation can go to for real-time grassrootsverified reports on conflict situations, if and when

they arise.

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Volunteers report on security threats in their

localities through SMS or online submission to thepiganduru platform.

VYP staffers then feed verified reports to Facebookand twitter through their individual user accounts.

Friends pick it and when commenting on it alsoenabling their wider networks to access and use theinformation.

Humanitarian/security and stakeholders access real-time verified reports from our platform

Piga Nduru combines the use of Blogging through theUshahidi.com Platform with Facebook and twitter social

networking sites.

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Recruiting of reliable volunteer countrywide isresource consuming.

The limited size of SMS phones can take also limits

the information flow as it is therefore sent in bits. Some people do not know how to comprehensively

use phones beyond receiving and making calls.

There are Kenyans in remote parts with no access to

phones/network coverage or access to internetfacilities.

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...we have already reached

more than 100,000 youngpeople in different ways.We have seen them change

and become more

accepting to the difference,become self aware and

mature. Some have joinedour staff as volunteers,

others are taking this newfound confidence intomany activities of their

daily lives

VOLUNTARYYOUTH

PHILANTHROPISTS

VIJANA KWA UNDUGU MILELE

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Peace is not an absence of war, itis a virtue, a state of mind, a

disposition for benevolence,

confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Thank You