Youth Action International 

In an effort to address the dire conditions that these children are living in, Youth Action International is establishing the family empowerment program which will help families with food security and some income to care for the family’s basic needs. As the number of child-headed households increases, we have an obligation to establish sustainable support [...]

Freetown, August 2007: Youth Action International’s Center for Women Empowerment has opened its doors to women living in the poorest communities in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Women living in five of Sierra Leone’s slum areas will be able to access the centers programs which include alternative counseling, business enterprise workshops, computer training, and micro-credit loans.

Youth Action International celebrates the construction and launch of the Tmas
orphanage home in Monrovia. The orphanage is now home to 140 children who
lost their parents during the Liberian civil war. We first came across Tmas
orphanage in 2006. At that point, the orphanage was housed in the shell of a
building without a roof, windows or doors. [...]

Freetown, July 2007: 145 students from across Sierra Leone attended a four day youth empowerment workshop hosted by Youth Action International and Whitman College fellow Henry Musa Kpaka.
Participants in the workshop, which took place between July 19 – 21, 2007
participated in lectures and discussions on youth involvement through volunteering and lobbying. The participants also benefited [...]

Youth Action International & People United for Libraries in Africa (PULA) are jointly working on a program to build and launch reading rooms in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The small libraries will be built in heavily populated areas which have no existing access to libraries or reading resource centers.
Over 40,000 books have already [...]

Youth Action International has crossed a milestone by awarding its 400th scholarship to children living in difficult circumstances. The scholarships, which are granted to young people in Liberia and Sierra Leone who would not otherwise be able to go to school are aimed at ensuring that most talented students do not have [...]

I wasn’t promised an African sunset. When Kimmie Weeks invited me on a humanitarian mission through post-conflict countries, what came to mind were the stunning landscape pictures my friends had brought back from the ranch in Kenya. It was how I had envisioned this beautiful continent. Streaks of red and orange, firing up the night [...]

I traveled to Liberia and Sierra Leone with Kimmie Weeks during the summer of 2006 to assist him and carry out research for YAI. I am originally from Tanzania and was excited to visit west Africa. I was confident I would adjust to Sierra Leone pretty quickly, because hey, it was still Africa wasn’t it? [...]