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75% of the African population is below the age of 35. [19] [20] For Africa to develop, focus, recognition and support must be on youths.[21]Youths can be a positive force for development [22] and their potential can be utilized and developed by quality education and skills improvement; employment opportunities; empowerment and entrepreneurship; good governance; health and well-being.
Learn about the history, purpose and activities of the National Youth Service (NYS), a paramilitary and civilian volunteer organisation in Kenya. Find out how NYS trains and mentors young people in various skills and trades, and how it was inspired by the Israeli Nahal model.
SHOFCO is a grassroots movement in Kenya that provides services, education and empowerment for women and girls in urban slums. Founded by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner Odede, SHOFCO operates in 10 slums and won the 2018 Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives and improve their quality of life. Learn about the dimensions, goals, types, and examples of youth empowerment programs around the world.
This is a list of organizations that promote, advocate, or otherwise affiliate with youth empowerment. This is an incomplete list which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness.
All of CYP's work falls within The Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment (2007-2015), which is the Commonwealth's organizing framework for cooperation on youth affairs. Through the Plan of Action, Commonwealth Heads of Government have affirmed that "empowering young people means creating and supporting the enabling conditions under which young ...
WE Charity is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded by the Kielburger brothers in 1995. It has faced scandals over its ties to the Trudeau family, its misleading donors about school construction in Kenya, and its defamation lawsuit over a CBC report.
The Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) is BOMA's two-year poverty graduation program, which uses a similar approach to a graduation model performed in six countries [4] that was mostly considered by the New York Times as “enormously successful.” [5] This program is implemented in the Marsabit and Samburu counties of Northern Kenya where the poverty rate was 71% in 2016 (25.8% higher ...