MANYATTA YOUTH ENTERTAINMENT CBO (MAYE)

BACKGROUND MANYATTA YOUTH ENTERTAINMENT CBO
Manyatta Youth Entertainment CBO famously known as MAYE is a not-for-profit youth-led Community-Based Organization (CBO) that has active social footprints in Mombasa, Kwale, and Kilifi Counties. Founded in 2007 and established in 2011, it is focused on providing young people, especially the highly disadvantaged and marginalized a viable platform on which they can openly address issues affecting them and their grassroots communities, such as the promotion of community resilience, social accountability, and socio-economic-political justice, besides engaging in creative, theatrical, and innovative means to formulate sustainable solutions to
Challenges affecting the society.
MAYE provides a forum for positive engagement, dialogue, and interaction with the other existing institutions, the various other religious bodies, the private sector, and the government through arts, sports, online and social media to champion sustainable peace and prevention of violence extremism and radicalization among youth, women, and children in local communities. Today, MAYE is leading the Economic pillar under the Mombasa County Action Plan on preventing and Counter-Violent Extremism-PCVE where we are called to sharpen our focus, deepen our impact, and clarify our values and practices so that we are best prepared to fulfil our mission and make a positive impact on young people and society in general.
As a creative and innovative organization, MAYE applies non-conventional means such as art, Music, sports, and media as communication and engagement tools, this sits very well for both young and old but with a special space for Adolescent youth. MAYE established and is managing Anika Community Hub offering a safe space for young people, Anika Community Media, an online communication platform led by young people to amplify the voices of marginalized communities and Anika farm offering agri-business training and mentorship as an alternative means for livelihoods and economic empowerment. Application of Sports and Dialogue has added value to MAYE strategies in engagement with young people.
Through the famous sports na Sanaa; an annual football, boxing, and martial arts festival remains the canter of adolescent youth and communities at large. The establishment of the finest Anika Band has further given MAYE vibrancy in attracting adolescent young people with talent, and skill transfer. MAYE is honoured to serve as a Coordinator to the larger civil society Network in the Coast Region of Kenya. Is a founding member for the Mombasa Development Trust; a Local development Organization Co-created by Mombasa Communities with support from the YETU initiative. MAYE Forms part of the Mombasa County engagement forum on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism mandated to lead the Economic pillar. Part of the Mombasa County Health advocacy network-MCHANE. Member of the Pwani Gender-based violence-GBV network in Mombasa. Also hosts the African Artists Peace Initiative-AAPI- Kenyan Chapter. These are networks that give MAYE national and international recognition.

THEMATIC AREAS
1.Peace building and Conflict management
MAYE encourages the management of conflicts in a non-violent way such as through community dialogues and push for alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. We encourage a mutual relationship between the community and the security organs through police reforms and respect for the rule of law.

2.Democracy and Human rights
MAYE pushes for social accountability, leadership and integrity, the inclusion of youth and women in decision-making at the county and national level, and empowering the community on citizen participation, constitution, and constitutionalism for the realization of sovereign power.

3.Food security and climate change
MAYE promotes local farming and food generation for small-scale farmers comprised of youths and women at the community level while sensitizing the public on climate change

4.Education
MAYE recognizes education as a basic right as stipulated in the 2010 constitution, due to this variety of programs both in and out of school targeting adolescent male and female youth are taken through behavioural change, life skills, and mental health wellbeing sessions.