Welcome

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Improving the Quality of Life and Social Well being of Communities
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Creating Opportunities for the Youth through Entrepreneurship & Vocational Skills Training
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We are all over the Country even in the Villages!
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YEDP

Youth Enterprise Development Program (YEDP) aims to empower young entrepreneurs to transform their communities through training, mentoring and funding enabling them to create business ventures for employment and wealth creation.

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WIB

The Women In Businesss (WIB) project is aimed at empowering young women between 14 and 35 years in entrepreneurship and combines business, technical skills development and financial education

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EYGL

Empowering Youth in Governance and Leadership – provides youth with important ingredients that builds effective leaders through meaningful skill development, identification of common issues, challenges, opportunities and values.

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This program focuses on the improved health status of women of reproductive age, and children below 5 years.
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Focuses on ensuring food security, renewable energy and advocates for simple agricultural technologies that improve production.
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Focuses on areas of research, capacity building aimed at increasing competencies for the civil society organizations to facilitate constructive development.
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Focuses on enterprise development, market and financial linkages, Business Mentorship and growth support.
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What We Do
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Improving the lives of those we touch one at a time!
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The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but those who look at it without doing anything!

“Albert Einstein”

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The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but those who look at it without doing anything!

“Albert Einstein”
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Saying it as it Is!

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Listen to one of the beneficiaries after completion of the Learning for Life Programme.

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AIRD’S PERSPECTIVE

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A Trainer’s perspective on the Learning for Life Programme, as well as learnt lessons and beneficiary feedback.

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Reached in W.A.S.H
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Youths Trained in Entrepreneurship
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Trained on Life Skills
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Youth-Led Enterprises Created
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