A group of youth from Gachie has volunteered to mentor their counterparts.
Gachie Youth Group’s chairman Jesse Kariuki said that they had started the initiative to help ' stray' youth to lead a better life.
“We were discouraged by the way youth who are drug addicts are suffering,” said Kariuki.
Speaking today at Gachie Town during a mentorship session , Kariuki said that the initiative is paying off.
“We have received many youth who have abandoned drugs,” said Kariuki.
Kariuki said that the group has six facilitators who are mentoring the youth and that the group has the intention of reaching up to 1000 youths in Kiambaa sub-county.
“What we are doing is just the tip of the iceberg ; we intend to reach 1000 youth and make them respectable members of society”, said Kariuki.
Kariuki blamed challenges like unemployment for adversely affecting the youth and he urged the county government to provide more funds so that they might empower the youth .
Sixteen year old David Waweru is one of the youths rehabilitated by the group and said that the mentor ship provided by the group had changed him.
“I was a drug addict but when I joined this mentor ship I have abandoned use of drugs”, said Waweru.
Waweru urged other youth involved in use of drugs to join the group so that their lives might change for the better.