We're offering spots for 7 pairs of East African
changemakers (ages 18- 26) to join a powerful 9-month journey of growth,
healing, leadership, and resilience.
Applications now open for our Resilience Fellowship, September 2025 – March 2026!
The Resilience
Fellowship is back for its 4th instalment, this time, exclusively
in East Africa, starting with Kenya! Designed by youth, for youth — we’re
offering spots for 7 pairs of East African changemakers (ages
18- 26) to join a powerful 9-month journey of growth, healing, leadership, and
resilience.
About the Resilience Fellowship
We invite you to our human-centered Fellowship — a space to
deepen your activism, connect with like-minded peers, and co-lead real change
in your community.
You’ll get:
- A KES
40,000 stipend, plus covered travel to our Resilience Residential (October
3 – 7 2025)
- 5 days
of deep restoration in nature at our Resilience Residential — with great
food, meaningful conversations, and personal healing
- Certification
as a Mental Health First Aider
- 8
months of intergenerational mentorship with experts
- New
skills in facilitation, leadership, project management, and community care
- Reduced
climate anxiety, improved emotional wellbeing, and strengthened community
bonds
- Lifelong
friendships and a powerful support network
High-Commitment Opportunity
This is a high-commitment, 9-month fellowship designed for
passionate, grounded changemakers ready to dedicate time and energy to personal
growth, peer leadership, and community resilience. We’re looking for
individuals who are fully committed to the full arc of the programme, including
in-person events, weekly facilitation, ongoing mentorship, and deep community
work.
You’ll need to commit to:
- Completing
a 2-day Mental Health First Aid online training
- Attending
our 5-day, in-person Resilience Residential in full, taking place October
3 – 7 2025
- Co-leading
in-person Resilience Circles with 12–16 young people in your community
(committing 5-6 hours per week to prepare and facilitate weekly sessions
over 8 weeks)
- Weekly
preparation & reporting; including submitting feedback and data after
each session and touching base with the TRP team for about 30 min each
week
- Monthly
check-ins; Joining community calls to share updates, troubleshoot, and
grow
- Monthly
mentorship – Meeting with your assigned mentor for one hour per month
Eligibility
You must be aged 18-26, based in Kenya and
committed to being available from September 2025 – March 2026.
Apply as a Pair: Resilience Circles are
co-hosted in pairs, so we expect applications from pre-formed pairs who already
work well together.
Inclusion Matters: We believe climate justice is
intersectional. That means we actively encourage applications from marginalised
communities, including youth with lived experience of inequality related to
race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, socio-economic
background, and faith. We welcome and honour complexity here.
Are you:
- Ready
and able to commit time for training, facilitation, mentorship, and
reporting over 9 months?
- Passionate
about climate justice and building strong, emotionally
resilient communities?
- A
great listener, a compassionate leader-in-the-making, and excited to
support others?
- Open
to exploring climate anxiety, burnout, and emotional wellbeing?
- Proficient in English?
Application
To apply, please download our Resilience Fellowship 2025
Application Booklet and read thoroughly. In the booklet you will find further
information about the Resilience Fellowship, a list of application questions to
prepare your answers, and details on how to submit your application.
Applications close 11:59pm EAT, Tuesday 5th August 2025