Youth Alliance
for Change Kenya (YACK)
ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
Youth Alliance for Change Kenya (YACK) was founded in 2012 by a group of 15 LGBTIQ individuals in response to the discrimination and lack of access to essential services they faced. Based in Up-country Kenya, with a focus on Nyanza Province and four surrounding counties, YACK is a youth-led Non-State Community Based Organisation (CBO) dedicated to defending the rights of vulnerable rural LGBTIQ communities.
OUR MISSION
We lead the charge in attaining legal health, wellbeing, and safety for sexual and gender minorities. Our focus areas include HIV prevention, mental health, and sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) treatments. Through community-driven initiatives, we challenge oppression norms and promote inclusion, tolerance, and diversity.
OUR VISION
We envisions fighting against pandemic, injustices and building a healthier and more equitable world which values and respects differences regardless of diversity, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexuality, gender, bodily, disability of identity circumstances.