Youth Aid Africa was accredited a Responsible Agency by Public Opinions International on 14th November 2016
Youth Aid Africa
Plot 874, Sir Apollo Kagwa Road,Makerere Hill,Kampala (U)
P. O. Box 34625, Kampala (U)
Telephone:0783965764
Email:[email protected]
Executive Director: Kyokwijuka Alexander,
Telephone: 0783965764
Email: [email protected]
Youth Aid Africa is a youth empowerment organization that works to strengthen young peoples’ engagement in economic development and governance processes in Uganda and Africa. It was founded in 2012 as an annual student’s event to create a common ground for the youth to generate ideas on how to respond to the increasing challenges facing the youth, a need to deepenefforts in research, training, civic engagement and advocacy in areas related to economic development and governance. It was consequently incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee under the laws of Uganda.
Youth Aid Africaseeks toempower the youth to play a cardinal role in nation building by strengthening their participation in economic development, policy and governance processes across Africa and harnessing the necessary environment for information sharing and networking through youth empowerment, capacity building, policy advocacy, and legislative efforts. Over the last three years, Youth Aid Africa has been laying a ground for empowering young leaders at national and Continental levels through youth friendly trainings ranging from entrepreneurial skills development, leadership, advocacy, and governance processes.
Youth Aid Africa is also seeking to work to support youth empowerment through creation interaction media platforms and resource base on which youth can share ideas, build their capacity, carry out projects, and satisfactorily play their role in development and governance. Youth Aid Africa is now seeking to design appropriate interventions for the empowerment, mentorship and training of the youth through advocacy, empowerment and capacity building as entry points to re-dress youth needs and enhancing good governance in Uganda and Africa.
Vision: An economically empowered and civically oriented youth population in Uganda and Africa
Mission: To empower, mentor and train the youth through advocacy, coordinated empowerment and capacity building as entry points to re-dress youth needs and enhancing good governance in Uganda and Africa.
Our Objectives
- To assist and/or run programs aimed at uplifting the involvement of the youth in governance through civic engagement programs, advocacy campaigns and social networking.
- To contribute to efforts that focus on economically empowering the youth through skills capacity building and experiences to enable them competitively appreciate their environment.
- To assist and/or run programs aimed at uplifting the welfare of the orphaned and vulnerable children I different parts of the country.
- To equip the Youth with employability skills such as communication, presentation and leadership skills, customer care, time management and team work through a multitude of public dialogues, seminars, workshops and conferences conducted by the youth.
- To strengthen networking and linkage between like-minded youth and other innovative stakeholders to assist them in impacting society.
- To conduct youth mentorship programs through which the youth can share their ideas with a possibility of logistical assistance to help them realize their dreams.
Core Values
- Team work
- Transparency and accountability.
- Objectivity.
- Consensus building.
- Respect for and appreciation of diversity.
- Professionalism.
On Going Projects
- One child, One Book Project.
- They Are Also Children like Others – TAACO Project
- The Annual Youth Conference
One child, One Book Project
The significance of books is immaculate. But there are a lot of students who are deprived of this knowledge either due to lack of resources or scarcity of libraries in their region. Keeping this condition in mind, Youth Aid Africa launches “ONE CHILD, ONE BOOK” Project to establish children libraries in schools of remote regions in Uganda and Africa. These libraries will not only provide children with course books but will also contain a huge variety of general knowledge and resource books which will help in enlightening the young minds.
Youth Aid Africa will Launch Donate a Book Campaign in various schools of Uganda and Africa where students would be encouraged to submit one already read or new book (fiction or non-fiction) to their school or college administration. The Youth Aid Africa Team will collect these books and establish libraries in the remote regions of Uganda and Africa.
We are doing this so as to encourage the community to give the gift of literacy when one donates their used books to charity. So many of us have books piling up in corners, lining up along the floor, stacked in piles on desks, overflowing from our bookshelves. Your book donations can help a young child learn to love to read and change their lives for the better!
They Are Also Children like Others – TAACO Project
Our interest in empowering, mentoring and uplifting the welfare of young orphaned and vulnerable children for better tomorrow is inherently proactive. We wish to champion the education of orphans and other vulnerable children through paying for them school fees and other necessary costs. Our staff goes down to communities and with the liaison with local community leaders, they identify those children that are so needy, information is compiled to inform action by Youth Aid Africa and our Donors.
Youth Aid Africa gives its donors complete information about child including his or her financial, social, academic and personal information. This is an indirect adoption where the donor knows about the child but the child will only be a scholar of Youth Aid Africa. Children we support belong to the following categories:
- Out of school orphans.
- In-school Orphans.
- Children that are neglected by parents.
- Families with large number of siblings.
- Talented students with financial crisis in good institutions.
The fee of any child depends on his/her institution which ranges from $10 to $50 per month. Those people that are interested in adopting a child and pay his/her school fees will be encouraged to contact us and we will give them a chance to educate a child and change a life. The official Launch of this project will be in December, 2016, in Kabale District.
They Annual Youth Conference
This is one of the many youth-led and focused conferences that is convened every year by Youth Aid Africa to foster information sharing and idea generation for key alternatives for the youth to face the challenges facing society especially them. It targets the Youth Population (15 – 35 years), especially those passionate about leadership and democracy.
The Conference heavily draws from the experiences of the youth in the electoral and democratic processes within their immediate environment, they share the lessons learnt and seek to redirect their involvement and orientation in governance Processes.
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