Advocacy/Community Engagement
Rodney and Beuter are Special Olympics Youth Leaders from Kenya who will lead a Youth Innovation Project to create employment and social opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities by creating a self-sustaining poultry keeping program.
Over the course of twelve months, Rodney and Beuter will build the business from the ground up; clearing the land, constructing the poultry house, and raising the chicks. Throughout this process, they will work with young people to teach them the skills they will need to maintain the poultry house, raise the chicks, and harvest products along the way. In addition to work skills, the young people will learn to work alongside their peers of all ability levels. Through this project, Rodney and Beuter hope to generate a new culture of inclusion and acceptance in their community.