Kenya’s youth advocate, Raphael Obonyo, has won the 2017 Pan African Humanitarian Award.
The award recognises the impact of Mr. Obonyo’s work on social leadership, youth empowerment and his persistence in voicing youth development issues in Africa.
At the award ceremony, the jury also noted that Mr. Obonyo, through his organisation, the Youth Congress of Kenya, has for the last ten years been training young people from informal settlements in Nairobi on entrepreneurship and sourcing grants for their business start-ups.
Raphael Obonyo has officially been appointed New Leader for Tomorrow in Brussels (Belgium), in the framework of the 2014 edition of the Crans Montana Forum on Africa and South-South Cooperation.