“Aren’t you nervous?” my dear friend carefully asked me when I told her that I’d be visiting Uganda. That’s how my parents reacted at first. I told myself it is not because Uganda is part of Africa that they are worried for my travel. Traveling to new places is always uncertain to some extent. However, [...]
Monrovia, Liberia: Eve de la Mothe Karoubi has taken up temporary assignment as Youth Action International’s Regional Director in West Africa. Although based in Liberia, Eve will help to coordinate YAI’s activities in Sierra Leone as well as explore opening a new office in the Ivory Coast. While in West Africa, Eve will host workshops [...]
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an Acholi-based opposition group led by Joseph Kony has been fighting first against president Museveni’s government, and currently against other Acholi peoples. The Acholi are an ethnic group who live in Northern Uganda. Though Kony, leader of the LRA reportedly believes he has been chosen by God to overthrow president [...]
Youth Action International is teaming up with People United for Libraries in Africa (PULA) and Mother Goose Times to ship over $150,000 in books and education supplies to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The consignment will include books for rural libraries, materials for a new after school initiative, computers and materials for Sierra Leone’s school for [...]
REDWOOD CITY, CA: Internationally acclaimed Liberian child rights activist Kimmie Weeks of Youth Action International is among the featured speakers at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF), an annual gathering of cutting edge donors committed to international causes. Kimmie Weeks will be joined on stage by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former UN Commissioner for Human Rights [...]
Youth Action International’s founder and Executive Director Kimmie Weeks was featured in on a MTV and Discovery Channel reality series called 4Real. Hosted by Sol Guy, the show takes pop star MIA to Liberia to explore Kimmie’s work to transform his country.As children of war, Sri Lankan rap maven M.I.A. and Liberian child advocate Kimmie [...]
Kampala, Uganda – Youth Action International staff in Uganda participated in the just ended Afro-Arab Youth Conference which took place in Kampala, Uganda. Under the conference theme “youth in partnership for peace and development” the youth re-echoed the need to consolidate partnerships and unity between
Africa and the Arab world in order to achieve perpetual peace [...]
Youth Action International is a non-governmental organization that uses grassroots techniques to develop and implement programs that help alleviate the suffering of children affected by war or living in difficult circumstances, empower them to reach their full potential, and break cycles of violence and poverty.
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