Have you always wanted to be on the set of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? Do you want a piece of EM:HE history? Do you want to support YAI? Now is your chance! The Greener Diamond is auctioning an EM:HE experience as well as the last blow horn ever used on the show. Bid on the opportunity [...]
“So what? Says who? Who cares?” That is the theme of the upcoming TEDxTeen conference to be held in New York. TEDxTeen is an independently organized TED event that will bring together young people to engage in a deep discussion about how to create change and take action to solve problems. Kimmie Weeks will speak [...]
YAI, in collaboration with the Richard Coleman Family Foundation, has distributed notebooks and pencils to nearly 300 students at the William Coleman High School and Christian A. Richards school. The distribution is part of a larger plan and effort to upgrade the standards of education at both schools. When YAI staff visited the schools in [...]
Sixty young people have successfully completed the first phase of YAI’s rural Computer Training Center program. The program,which was implemented in the port city of Buchanan in Liberia’s Grand Bassa County, gives 60 community students the opportunity to learn basic and intermediary computer skills.
YAI initiated the computer training program in the country at the request [...]
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.
Read the YAI 2008 Annual Report: Empowering Africa (pdf)
