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International Youths Development Network connects impactful Community projects of disadvantaged youths groups, rural schools and local Skill acquisition centers in West Africa to volunteer mentors and donor agencies.Volunteer with us and help transform the future leaders
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July 19, 2021The IYDN Skills Builders Initiative is a transformative project designed to empower young individuals with essential skills, and resources to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. IYDN works with local and international partners to train disadvantaged youths in Africa, helping them gain life skills through our network of local skills acquisition centres. Our mentoring, life-skills training, and empowerment program through these local skill centres empower disadvantaged youths and help end the cycle of unemployment.
To properly address the root cause of poverty and unemployment among the growing youth population in sub-Saharan Africa, effort is needed in identifying its causes and fixing it rather than just suppressing its symptoms. Sad, millions of youths drop out of school each year in Sub-Saharan Africa, while those who are fortunate to complete university studies are unable to secure jobs as a result of limited job opportunities. This has made many youths engage in unprecedented heinous crimes, such as armed robbery, internet fraud, illegal migration, ritualistic killings etc.
Train. Empower. Promote
IYDN in her quest to identify tomorrow’s transformational leaders today has identified a root cause of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa that needs urgent attention which is; Skill Development and empowerment. Based on our findings, the majority of both graduate and dropout youths are victims of unemployment, on this note alternative for sustenance and creating jobs for the future generation is by training and empowering youths. Today a lot of organization are commendable doing this, but IYDN have observed that it’s not just enough to train youths in different skills and leave them to their fate. Instead, our project team wants to use a different innovative approach which we codenamed IYDN Skills Builders Initiative, using our TEP approach.
TRAIN
Train youths in any area of their interest based on international/local business and job practices
EMPOWER
Empower participants, with startup equipment and finance via our youth bank/secure them a job from both local/international firms
PROMOTE
Promote each Youth TEP Network Participant through various channels, link them up to market, and provide them with free business growth advice
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IYDN shall achieve this by creating a network of skills acquisition centres, hubs, and technical schools within sub-Saharan Africa, using digital tools to link them to professional volunteers who have the desire to teach and mentor disadvantaged learners in developing countries to enable these local youths to gain both local and international experience on their skills of interest via virtual classrooms. We aim to prepare these disadvantaged youth learners for both local and international work and business experience while at the same time promoting diversity.
At the end of the training, successful and less privileged apprentices/students can access startup capital from the IYDN Impact Fund; this is a repayable revolving grant. Each apprentice receives business support from IYDN project teams and professional volunteers, which includes market linkage, business promotion and business advice from our network of professionals. We shall also build partnerships with international firms for job placement or hiring. To maintain sustainability and grow the TEP Network with more youths, each successful beneficiary is expected to train and promote 2 or more youths, depending on his or her capacity. The project shall also honour entrepreneurs who have been able to train and establish youths within their communities, promoting them as a role model, worth imitating.
