Silantoi Youth Initiative is a community-based organization that uses sports to empower children, women and youths in Canada and in Kenya. The Silantoi Youth Initiative Canada is dedicated to building a generation of self-reliant black youth, through Leadership and mentorship programs, and Mental Health  Awareness Workshops, designed to empower young Individuals to develop their skills, encourage collaboration, and become responsible leaders in their communities. We are hoping to build confidence and leadership skills in black youth. Promote gender equality and challenge stereotypes. Strengthen the community by fostering collaboration and inclusion. Promote physical and mental well-being through Sports and tailored workshops for mental health wellness and awareness.

In every Region the challenges are different, which needs different approach. Silantoi Youth Initiative Kenya is based in Narok County, where the community still exercise old outdated norms. SYI Kenya works towards the improvement of the community needs and equipped children, women and youth with some life skills, techniques and knowledge on conflict identification, management and transformation. Children, youth and women are the ones that effectively become positive change agents for a better world.

One of the objective of the program in Kenya is also to engage boys and young men as agents of positive change in challenging the traditional culture, attitudes and norms that threaten the lives of young teenage girls ,as well as encouraging the boys and young men to become actively involved in preventing and responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Early marriages, Female circumcision, female school dropout as well as promotion of reproductive health and rights of girls and young women through sports for development.