Youth Empowerment Martial Arts Program (WFWP Kenya)

Written by: Susan Kone

On February 5 2022, Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP) Kenya, launched a Unified Martial Arts (TIMD) Club for the youth. The purpose of this martial arts program is to serve as a character education program for the youths in the community. This is in an effort of keeping the youth away from many of the issues in society, such as drug abuse, crimes, alcoholism and other destructive behaviors which are prevalent in this area.

The youth from the community and even neighboring areas were looking forward to the program and they all came on time. The launch event started with the introduction of WFWP by Dr. Susan Kone, National Chairperson of Africa for WFWP and WFWP IVP for Africa. Next, Dr. Edwin Aketch lectured the youth on the importance of having a life goal that will be a guiding pillar towards a fulfilling life. He stressed the importance of character education lectures for the youth who are future leaders and guided them towards how they can orient their lives to live a better life of service to humanity.

This was followed by a demonstration of the techniques from Martial Arts and instructor Junsu Juma and his team. They gave a very exciting demonstration in front of all the participants.
After the demonstrations, they all participated in light exercises and training.

At the end of the program, the youths were overjoyed and expressed a heart full of gratitude for this kind of initiative which will empower the youths of that area. The youth promised to take up the challenge and participate in the training once a week with Instructor Willis Ogalo.