The use of drug and substance abuse and the HIV/AIDS pandemic has now become a global crisis. It is eating away the noble gains in development. A total of 2,010,000 people in Kenya are infected with the youth being the most vulnerable group. This figure represents 6.7% of Kenya’s population. HIV/AIDS has posed the most formidable challenge to the science of medicine, as the cure still remains unknown. The disease has equally posed serious challenges to development and the social welfare.

The scourge is eroding all gains of development that have taken various communities, regions and countries decades to achieve. It is a sweeping flood that has defied all scientific strength and discoveries.

Many children cannot go to school and many others have dropped out of school either due to lack of parental support, to take care of their ailing parents or to help supplement meager family incomes. Social roles are being changed by HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS deaths at the Nyanza Province have left many school going children with no alternative but to succumb to miserable lives as an alternative. Young girls are forced to prostitution at the expense of going to school.

This is indeed an unfortunate scenario that calls for immediate address to provide social alignment by rehabilitating the unfortunate youth in the society and giving them hope for the future. There is need to get them out of hopelessness and give them hope for tomorrow.

It is important for the local community to equally accept those infected and affected by providing education to them to make them realize the important role such children can play and avoid any gap in development. For multiplication of intervention efforts, peer education needs to be promoted within communities, as this will again break any existing communication barriers. YAFNet has a big role to assist the youth 2gether with YOU.

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Two men met at a bar and struck up a conversation. One of them kept complaining of family Problems. Finally, the other man said: "You think you have family problems? Listen to my Situation.
A few years ago, I met a young widow with a grown-up daughter and we got married. "Later my father married my step daughter. That made my stepdaughter my step mother and my father became my stepson. Also, my wife became mother in-law of her father-in-law.

Then the daughter of my wife, my stepmother had a son. This boy was my half-brother because he was my father's son, but he was also the son of my wife's daughter, which made him my wife's grandson.
That made me the grandfather of my half-brother. "This was nothing until my wife and I had a son. Now the half-sister of my son, my stepmother, is also the grandmother. "This makes my father the brother-in-law of my child, whose stepsister is my father's wife. I'm my stepmother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own Child's aunt, my son is my father’s nephew and I'm my own
grandfather!
And you think you have family problems!" No" man!

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what’s important and what’s not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what’s going on outside

More than 20,000 children are trafficked annually in Kenya, a trafficking in persons whistle-blowers' forum disclosed yesterday.

The business had thrived in Kenya partly due to mushrooming of brothels, bars and villas, which allowed revellers to target young children for sexual exploitation and lack of effective legislation to fight the vice.

The German ambassador to Kenya, Mr Walter Lindner, said the vice had branded Kenya one of the hottest sex tourism destinations in the world.

He called for proper legislation that would take care of private villas and house ownership since most hotels had complied with the code of conduct signed last year.

Speaking at the Giriama Beach hotel in Mombasa, when he officially opened a one-day workshop on trafficking of persons at the Coast, Mr Lindner said although his government was committed to ending the practice, there was no enough cooperation from Kenyan authorities.

"Germany passed a law 10 years ago that punishes its citizens committing crimes abroad. It is amazing that Kenya has not cooperated to ensure that those Germans involved in child sex tourism are apprehended," he said.

Mr Lindner said German police and prosecutors just need testimonies so that any German tourist involved in crimes was arrested immediately he landed at Frankfurt airport.
As the youth of Kenya and fighting for the Rights of thr children. Lets team up against this vice and give the children thier rightful positions in the society. All in favor please say I.

The lion is the most powerful animal in the jungle. The "king of beasts."

But what is the lion's favorite food?

Antelope, zebra, wildebeest and other large animals.

There are lots of animals a lion could eat: mice, snakes, lizards, birds and other small animals. However, the lion knows that these animals don't offer a large enough reward for the time, effort, and energy expended to hunt and capture them.

Lions hunt in prides, and the members work together in teams, so that after a successful hunt, there is enough food for all. Food for the hunters, food for the cubs, and food for the members of the pride that are too old to hunt. A lot of food.

If a lion tried to subsist on a diet of mice, it would probably starve to death (it certainly would never be able to go to the movies or take a vacation).

Paul thinks of himself as a lion. The king of the jungle. The alpha male. He's bright, sharp and talented. He knows his business inside and out.

He has only one problem: He's not making the kind of money he wants to make and knows he's capable of making.

He puts in lots of hours, comes in early, stays late, works weekends, but never seems to get ahead. He called me one day and asked for help.

Once we started working together, the reasons why he wasn't getting ahead became apparent. He was running his business -- and managing his time -- as if he were hunting mice, instead of moose.

Paul spends his days doing things that keep him busy, instead of doing things that make him productive. Things that move him closer to his goals.

Each day he arrives bright and early at the office. He sits down at his desk, and begins reading -- and replying to -- his e-mail. He then writes some letters, works on proposals, and makes some phone calls.

Then the phone begins to ring, YAFNet and regular mail arrives, his colleagues and coworkers walk into his office and ask him questions, and by the end of the day he hasn't accomplished very much. He's tired, stressed out, and frustrated.

Paul spends his days hunting mice, not moose.

Paul didn't have a plan or strategy for managing and taking control of his day. For setting his priorities. For staying focused.

Yes, he was busy. But he wasn't productive.

The youth can do better than this. Work hard or go home.