http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai education & economic empowerment for young people Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:09:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_536" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="John Littlefield at YAI's Center for Women in Monrovia"][/caption] Noted American actor John Littlefield and delegation arrives in Liberia today as guests of Kimmie Weeks and Youth Action International.   The American actor who has played roles in major motion pictures including The Hulk, Slipstream, Fracture and Beowulf ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/08/american-actor-visits-with-yai-liberia/ Youth Action International won $20,000 from Chase Community Giving to support our work!!! We could not have secured this win without the support of our faithful supporters. Thank you to everyone who helped, for taking the time to vote for YAI and spread the message. Two of our coalition partners also ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/07/yai-wins-20000-from-chase-community-giving/ Youth Action International is part of a game-changing coalition to win funding through Chase Community Giving on Facebook. Read the article Game Changing Coalition by Saul Garlick, the Founder of one of last year's Chase Community Giving winners, at The Huffington Post. Then, VOTE for Youth Action International and our coalition ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/06/yai-highlighted-in-the-huffington-post/ On June 15th, the Chase Community Giving will begin.    Voters will be able to use their facebook accounts to determine which organizations will win one of the many cash prizes. Our ability to win this money to help us continue our work in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda depends on your ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/06/vote-to-help-us-win-1-million-for-africa/ On May 2nd, YAI's Middlebury Chapter hosted a dodgeball tournament. 120 people participated in 18 teams and came together to raise over $500 for YAI's programs!!! Congrats on a job well done and thank you Middlebury for all of your efforts! http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/05/yai-middlebury-chapter-raises-over-500/ 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 ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/03/extreme-makeover-home-edition-auction-to-benefit-yai/ "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 ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/03/kimmie-weeks-to-speak-at-tedxteen/ 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 ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/03/yai-collaborates-with-richard-coleman-family-foundation/ 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 ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/03/60-graduate-from-yais-computer-training-center/ CNN International is re-airing its profile of Kimmie Weeks on it's popular African Voicessegment today (2/27) at 11:30 GMT (5:30 am EST) and 18:30 or 19:30 GMT (12:30 or 1:30 pm EST). It will also air Sunday at 17:00 GMT. If you weren't able to watch this interview the first time ... http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/index.php/2010/02/cnn-profiles-kimmie-weeks/