Resilience Fellowship 2025-2026 for East African Changemakers (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: August 5, 2025

Applications are open for the Resilience Fellowship 2025-2026. The Resilience Fellowship is again for its 4th instalment, this time, completely in East Africa, beginning with Kenya! They are providing 14 spots for pairs of East African changemakers (ages 18- 26) to hitch a robust 9-month journey of progress, therapeutic, management, and resilience. They invite you to the human-centered fellowship, an area to deepen your activism, join with like-minded friends, and co-lead actual change in your group.

This is a excessive-dedication, 9-month fellowship designed for passionate, grounded changemakers able to dedicate time and vitality to non-public progress, peer management, and group resilience. They are trying for people who’re absolutely dedicated to the complete arc of the programme, together with in-particular person occasions, weekly facilitation, ongoing mentorship, and deep group work.

You’ll have to decide to:

• Completing a 2-day Mental Health First Aid on-line coaching
• Attending a 5-day, in-particular person Resilience Residential in full, happening October 3 – 7 2025
• Co-leading in-particular person Resilience Circles with 12–16 younger folks in your group (committing 5-6 hours per week to organize and facilitate weekly periods over 8 weeks)
• Weekly preparation & reporting; together with submitting suggestions and knowledge after every session and touching base with the TRP crew for about 30 min every week
• Monthly check-ins; Joining group calls to share updates, troubleshoot, and develop
• Monthly mentorship – Meeting together with your assigned mentor for one hour monthly

Benefits

• A KES 40,000 stipend per particular person, plus journey coated to the Resilience Residential
• 5 days of deep restoration in nature with nice meals, significant conversations, and private therapeutic
• Certification as a Mental Health First Aider
• 8 months of intergenerational mentorship with consultants
• New expertise in facilitation, management, undertaking administration, and group care
• Reduced local weather nervousness, improved emotional wellbeing, and strengthened group bonds
• Lifelong friendships and a strong assist community

Eligibility

• You have to be aged 18-26, based mostly in Kenya and dedicated to being obtainable from September 2025 – March 2026.
• Apply as a Pair: Resilience Circles are co-hosted in pairs, in order that they count on functions from pre-shaped pairs who already work nicely collectively.
• Inclusion Matters: They consider local weather justice is intersectional. That means they actively encourage functions from marginalised communities, together with youth with lived expertise of inequality associated to race, ethnicity, gender identification, sexual orientation, incapacity, socio-financial background, and religion. They welcome and honour complexity right here.

Application

Applications shut at 11:59pm EAT, Tuesday, August 5, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Resilience Fellowship.