The Resilience Fellowship (East Africa)

The Resilience Fellowship is a fully funded nine-month program (July 2026 to March 2027) that trains 12 pairs of East African youth to facilitate community Resilience Circles exploring climate anxiety and emotional wellbeing. The fellowship sits at the rare intersection of climate justice and mental health.

What you get:

➤ KES 40,000 stipend per fellow (about USD 300) ➤ All travel costs to the residential covered ➤ Mental Health First Aid certification, a transferable credential ➤ 5-day residential in East Africa ➤ 8 weeks of co-led Resilience Circles experience ➤ Network of East African climate-mental-health practitioners

What you'll do:

➤ Complete Mental Health First Aid training (2 days) ➤ Attend the 5-day residential to build facilitation skills ➤ Co-lead 8 weeks of Resilience Circles with your fellowship partner (groups of 16-20 community members each) ➤ Engage community members on climate anxiety and emotional wellbeing

The program is built on the recognition that effective climate action requires emotional resilience and community-level wellbeing infrastructure, not just technical solutions. Applications are accepted as pre-formed pairs, which strengthens accountability and depth of impact in the Circles.

• Aged 18 to 28
• Based in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, or Tanzania
• Must apply as a pre-formed pair of two people who already know each other
• Both applicants must be proficient in English
• Available across the full nine-month program (July 2026 through March 2027)
• Genuinely passionate about climate justice
• Willing to engage openly with climate anxiety and emotional wellbeing topics
• young-leaders
• changemakers
• youth
• community-organizers
• facilitators