Resilience Fellowship 2025-2026 for East African Changemakers (KES 40,000 stipend + covered travel support)

The Resilience Project is 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 Resilience Fellowship

Opportunity Details

Date Published: July 29, 2025
Application Deadline: August 05, 2025
Category: Fellowship Training
Eligible Locations: Kenya

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 7pairs of East African changemakers (ages 18- 26) to join a powerful 9-month journey of growth, healing, leadership, and resilience.

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

Sponsor Organisation: The Resilience Project

Benefits of Resilience Fellowship

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

Resilience Fellowship Requirements

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?

If yes, apply now!

Application Date and Process

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.

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