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world’s poorest people. Youth Action International is actively working in post-war African countries to support the needs of families who have been adversely affected by war.

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Project Service Fee for our Humanitarian Projects : Each participant will be required to raise an additional $500 due four weeks before trip departure. Provided to Youth Action International, a registered US 501c3. This amount is tax-deductible according to US tax laws. Please consult your cpa for tax advice.

Your service fee supports the following great projects:

• The first, state of the art Liberian Center for Arts Crafts and Culture: The center will provide a world class music and movie production facility to support the talents of Liberia’s young artists, and grow economic development and tourism;
• The construction and launch of one of the largest rural elementary school in Liberia for 600 rural children;
• The development of your own Named Women’s Empowerment Center serving over a 100 women every year!

You can either donate through network for good (visa and checks accepted) or via paypal.com

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YAI has received a “Charity we Trust” rating from Guidestar.

Did you ever dream that your message could uplift, educate and transform people in a war torn nation? This completely unique experience allows you to share your message, passion and skills from stage to hundreds of young women and men hungry for empowerment inside Monrovia’s Civic Auditorium, and run a workshop tailored to the needs of the vibrant, rebuilding good citizens of Liberia. Your trip includes the filming and a professional DVD of your work to build your reputation as a global transformational leader, and our group will be featured in local media opportunities! You will also receive specific transformational training regarding Building your Business & Legacy, facilitated throughout the trip by Trip Hosts, Robert Evans, founder of The Messenger Network, and Spryte Loriano, founder of SpryteLorianoGlobal, and One Emotional Integration and BodyWork session by a trained US certified Therapist and Healer to support your own process of empowerment as you provide it to others!

Your participation on this voluntour will also launch a brand new Women’s Empowerment Center to serve hundreds of women a year, establishing a legacy for yourself and your family that can literally change a nation! Our humanitarian mission is facilitated by world-renown, 31 year old, child-rights activist, Dr. Kimmie Weeks (www.peaceforkids.org) Founder and Director of Youth Action International (YAI), who was appointed in February 2012 by President Sirleaf (Africa’s first female President) as Chairman of the Board for Liberia’s Water and Sewer Company, and has had the ominous task of reinstituting running water back to the people in Monrovia. But our adventure doesn’t stop there, as we will travel several hours through lush landscapes and small towns into the rural area of Grand Bassa, spending two days empowering the young men and women students at YAI’s Women’s Empowerment and Computer Learning Center, visit with hundreds of school children, and distribute life-saving, permanent clean water solutions for thousands of grateful families.

Get your sleep before you come to Liberia, as you will not want to miss a minute of the incredible, transformational stories of living through decades of civil war, and discovering the attitude and energy it takes to be part of not just changing lives, but rebuilding a nation!

Or to sign up for the trip, email: spryte.loriano@gmail.com

Expand your Speaking Business Internationally and Help Rebuild Liberia!
Join us for an unforgettable, transformational experience and business building opportunity in West Africa!
October 26 to November 3, 2013.

A view of Kendeja Resort

The gorgeous West Coast of Africa has been closed to tourism for nearly 20 years due to civil wars. Since early 2000’s the stability and peace has grown, and infrastructure rebuilt to once again host travelers to some of the most beautiful of African coastlines, lush landscapes, diverse cultures steeped in the most fascinating historical significance of any African Nation. Your specialized MessengerNetwork Transformational VolunTour to West Africa’s Liberia, the African nation founded by the US government and freed slaves in 1847 will be truly the experience of lifetime!

Did you ever dream that your message could uplift, educate and transform people in a wartorn nation? This completely unique experience allows you to share your message, passion and skills from stage to hundreds of young women and men hungry for empowerment inside Monrovia’s Civic Auditorium, and run a workshop tailored to the needs of the vibrant, rebuilding good citizens of Liberia. Your trip includes the filming and a professional dvd of your work to build your reputation as a global transformational leader, and our group will be featured in local media opportunities! You will also receive specific transformational training regarding Building your Business & Legacy, facilitated throughout the trip by Trip Hosts, Robert Evans, founder of The Messenger Network, and Spryte Loriano, founder of SpryteLorianoGlobal, and One Emotional Integration and BodyWork session by a trained US certified Therapist and Healer to support your own process of empowerment as you provide it to others!

Anglers restaurant, Monrovia

Your participation on this voluntour will also launch a brand new Women’s Empowerment Center to serve hundreds of women a year, establishing a legacy for yourself and your family that can literally change a nation! Our humanitarian mission is facilitated by world-renown, 31 year old, child-rights activist, Dr. Kimmie Weeks (www.peaceforkids.org) Founder and Director of Youth Action International (YAI), who was appointed in February 2012 by President Sirleaf (Africa’s first female President) as Chairman of the Board for Liberia’s Water and Sewer Company, and has had the ominous task of reinstituting running water back to the people in Monrovia. But our adventure doesn’t stop there, as we will travel several hours through lush landscapes and small towns into the rural area of Grand Bassa, spending two days empowering the young men and women students at YAI’s Women’s Empowerment and Computer Learning Center, visit with hundreds of school children, and distribute life-saving, permanent clean water solutions for thousands of grateful families.

Get your sleep before you come to Liberia, as you will not want to miss a minute of the incredible, transformational stories of living through decades of civil war, and discovering the attitude and energy it takes to be part of not just changing lives, but rebuilding a nation!

Golden Beach, Monrovia

The majority of your stay in the capital of Liberia, Monrovia, is at the newly renovated FourStar Cape Hotel (http://thecapehotelliberia.com/) , with incredible views of the Atlantic and just steps to the beach. Comfortable air-conditioned buses will transport us to historical tours, local market shopping, rural villages with mud huts, and the most amazing nightclub experiences you’ve ever encountered! We will travel by bus to the rural town of Buchannan, staying in a Liberian-style hotel, and then end our stay reflecting and relaxing at the beautiful FiveStar Kendeja Resort (http://www.rljkendejaresort.com/ built by Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television BET) with villas sitting on the red-orange sands and the warm Atlantic waters.

You will not find a trip of this kind, a business and legacy building opportunity of this kind anywhere else!

What’s Included:

• 4 Nights Accommodations at Cape Hotel, Monrovia
• 2 Nights Accommodations at Sparks Hotel, Buchanan, Grand Bassa
• 1 Night Accommodations at Kendeja Resort, Monrovia
• All Meals (excluding beverages)
• Welcome Party with Food and Open Bar
• Beach Barbeque and Party
• Pillow Gift from Liberia
• Airport Transfers
• All In-Country Transportation in air-conditioned vehicles
• Transformational Humanitarian and Business Training facilitated by Trip Hosts (see below)
• A professional dvd of your speech or workshop provided at the Civic Auditorium
• A professional dvd of entire trip experience
• Taxes and Tips
• All Tours and English Speaking Tour Guide
• Rental of Civic Auditorium
• Press Conference
• Snacks and bottled water during the day
• One Emotional Integration and BodyWork Healing Session, provided by a well-established healer from the States
• Pre-Trip Training and Preparation Conference Calls

What’s Not Included:

• Airfare (typically $1200.00 and up;
• Shopping expenses (See below for Currency info)
• Additional sessions with or trip Healer ($100 per session)
• Nightclub cover charges (typically $10-$20)
• Snacks and additional water
• Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Beverages (except for the Open Bar at Party)
• Visa ($150; See below for details)
• Vaccinations (See below for details)
• Local Cell Phone ($20 plus Minutes Cards)
• Project Service Fee for our Humanitarian Projects : Each participant will be required to raise an additional $500 due four weeks before trip departure. Provided to Youth Action International, a registered US 501c3. This amount is tax-deductible according to US tax laws. Please consult your cpa for tax advice. Pay Your Service Fee Online.

VIP Exclusive Offer!

For those ready to take their status as a global leader truly to the next level, we have arranged this exclusive, unprecedented opportunity in a trip of this kind. As a VIP on our journey, you will get to spend quality time networking with Dr. Kimmie Weeks, the youngest person to receive and honorary doctorate from Amherst College, speaker on prestigious stages as Harvard CEO’s Forum, and the World Economic Forum, and more. And will be presented as a US Delegation supporting the empowerment of Liberia’s young people, in a privately arranged meeting with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and other key government leaders, where you will learn first-hand about the toll of the recent war on what was the fastest developing African nation, its current social, business and political climate, and the vision held by Madam Sirleaf for its role in the newly restructured MRU (Mano River Union, including Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea). Along with priceless photo and video opportunity showcasing you with Heads of State, and a few more surprises, our VIP delegation on the trip will have the opportunity to contribute toward, and have their name engraved on a gold plaques at the following:

• The first, professional Music Recording and Film Production Studio in the history of Liberia to foster the talents of Liberia’s young artists, and grow economic development and tourism;
• The construction and launch of the largest rural elementary school in Liberia for 600 rural children;
• The development of your own Named Women’s Empowerment Center serving over a 100 women every year!
Cost: $10,000 additional to the base price of the trip, payable to Youth Action International, a registered US 501c3. This amount is tax-deductible according to US tax laws. Please consult your cpa for tax advice.

Presented in Stockholm, Sweden by HM the Queen of Sweden, the prize honors individuals who have dedicated much of their live to promoting the rights and wellbeing of children. The World Children Prize serve as a catalyst for growth and development of a more humane global community through integrated global educational programed, engaging a growing number of children throughout the world.

The three finalist are all official winners and will received a cash prize of US$100,000 to support their work in their respective countries but online voting among children of the world will be counted and subsequently released during the official ceremony. Every year the children decide, through a Global Vote, who should receive the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child. The record number of voting children is 7.1 million. Before the prize is awarded, several million children have learned about the rights of the child and democracy.

The World Children’s Prize Committee said Kimmie Weeks had been nominated from hundreds of others because he has spent over 20 years, since he was ten years old, fighting for the rights of the child, especially for children affected by war. Kimmie Weeks says he is honored to be named a nominee for the prestigious prize. He says he will use the prize to affect change in the lives of more children in Youth Action International’s operation areas of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
In an exclusive interview with the World’s Children’s Prize Magazine, Week said: “Liberia is my home. I was almost one of the children who died in the war. Don’t forget that every child who dies because of war or famine could have been a person who made the world a better place.”
Education and the Global Vote for the World Children’s Prize is ongoing in countries around the world. and is open to anyone from the age of ten up to the age of 17. To be able to take part in the Global Vote, children must first learn about the three candidates and the children they fight for.

Kimmie Weeks, who turned 31 on December 6, 2012, is a renowned Liberian child rights activist, youth advocate and the Executive director of one of Liberia’s leading Youth organizations Youth Action International. As Executive Director, Kimmie champions the cause of ending extreme poverty for children and their Mothers. Dr. Weeks said “it is indeed an honor again to be recognize for my works not only in my homeland Liberia but Africa at large” He went on to thank the organizers and pledge to do more for the Children of Africa.

Rema Bull, Retail Supervisor at Total Petroleum Inc. and a recent graduate of Cuttington University, served as keynote speaker. She called on Government to prioritize women’s empowerment across the nation.

In response, President Johnson Sirleaf commended Ms. Bull for her words of appeal, and said that Government was already answering her clarion call. For her part, the President thanked YAI for its initiative and stressed Government’s commitment to empowering young women through training and academic opportunities such as the World Bank/Nike Foundation Adolescent Girls’ Initiative and the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Scholars Program. The President also lauded the Executive Director of YAI, Kimmie Weeks, for his vision in the promotion and development of youth throughout the country. The President assured Mr. Weeks of Government’s determination to continue providing opportunities for the advancement of youth, particularly women.

The women are part of an initiative sponsored by the Alabaster Foundation, Burt Family Foundation, Cellcom, Chevron and the Manifest Foundation to provide skills training and workshops in small businesses development to 3,000 Liberian women over a two year period.

At one of the graduation programs held in Grand Bassa County, Youth Action International’s Executive Director Dr. Kimmie Weeks expressed his gratitude to the organization’s corporate, foundation and individual supporters for helping the organization achieve its goals. “We truly could not have done this without your support. In a single year, we’ve expanded to counties we could have only dreamt of going to before and we have impacted more women than we’ve ever done.”

Also speaking during the program was the Country manager of Chevron Liberia, Mr. Karl Cottrell said he was pleased by the progress YAI was making in the implementation of its women’s empowerment program. He went on to pledge Chevron’s continuous support to developing the human capacity of young people of Liberia. He said “Chevron Liberia is very happy and please to be part of this initiative with Youth action International.”

Manifest Foundation has donated 6 refurbished laptops to YAI’s free computer training center in Buchannan, Grand Bassa County.  The donation will help YAI provide computer training to additional young people in Liberia’s second largest port city.

The laptops were donated second hand by individuals in the United States.  Donated laptops are then completely refurbished and loaded with new programs (free of charge) and sent to YAI’s computer training programs across Liberia.

Bethany Webster – the visionary behind the Liberian laptop gifting program said: “This is such a simple way for our community to make a huge difference to serve others in need! This idea was birthed on my first trip to Liberia, visiting Manifest Foundation sponsored, Youth Action International Computer Learning Center for young men and women in rural villages. I’m so proud of Jason for his passion to help, and I appreciate the way The Manifest Foundation bridges the right partners together to make it all work! Now it’s up to us – let loose of those old laptops! And let’s get the tools for higher education into the hands of young people!”

To donate a used laptop to YAI’s free computer training program, here’s what we need you to do…

Carefully pack your old laptop and ship it (with receipt confirmation) to:

TSO Computers

116 Parkway,

Sevierville,TN 37862
Mark your laptop for Liberia

Include your name, email, phone number and mailing
address inside the box.

LAPTOP REQUIREMENTS:

Laptops can be in any condition, however, they must be
newer than 2001, come with a DVD drive and have a working power source.

Monrovia, Liberia: The US based organization called Youth Action International (YAI) has commenced its teacher training initiative called the Liberia Early Childhood Practiced-based Accelerated Teacher Training program (LECAPT). The program is intended the train a total of 400 pre-primary teachers in Montserrado on child development, classroom management, curriculum and assessment. The second in a series of training workshops took place on Saturday, August 25th at the Love International School in Sinkor and brought together close to 200 teachers.

Youth Action International has been implementing LECAPT in Liberian schools for the third year running. In 2009, the program was introduced to a small group of about 20 schools. Each of the schools received some training and materials for their students. Since 2010, YAI widened the reach of its program to benefit more than 400 teachers in 75 schools. This year, the program is providing educational materials for the teachers and close to 24,000 students.

Madam Helena Carter serves as Project Officer for LECAPT noted that the program was transformative for both students and teachers alike. Carter, who continues ongoing training and support with each of the schools observed: “when you visit the schools you can see the positive changes. The students have materials to work with, the teachers have things to give their children, and the children can take the things they learn and take back home for their parents see.” Carter says the LECAPT program is intended to make learning fun for Liberian children.

For his part, Executive Director Kimmie Weeks said that it was his organizations goal to make sure that every Liberian child had access to the program before they reached the first grade. “We are creating a new age in Liberia. It’s a new point when everybody has access to well trained teachers and the best materials.”

Youth Action International is an international organization working in post war African countries including Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda. The organization has a mission to provide education, health care and economic empowerment to children and young people.