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Toward Healing Youth in Post-Conflict Liberia: Seizing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges,
Making the Future Now
Jarius Andrew Greaves
Liberia, West Africa
My Vision for the Youth of Liberia
I envision to empower fellow young Liberians and street children who have had limited or no opportunities to live well, to heal from the effects of the civil wars, to pursue their dreams, and to become independent men and women.
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Youth Network for Reform (YONER-LIBERIA)
Our Vision
To have a more just and developed society where all children and youth will live freely and receive supports and opportunities to realize their full potential without any form of discrimination.
Our mission
To undertake actions that nurture and build honest and able leaders to become self-reliant and agents of positive change within their communities.
Projects We Have Implemented
#1: Youth Sustainable Waste Management Business Assistance Program (YSWMBAP)
Project Goal
To provide income for less fortunate youth
To deal with the problem of improper waste disposal and
environmental protection
Projects We Have Implemented Cont.
#2: Local Scholarship Program (LSP)
Project Goal
To buttress the Liberian government’s effort to reduce the
high rate of illiteracy in Liberia, to enable qualified youth and
street children to pursue their dreams, and to give them a
stable source of income.
#2: Local Scholarship Project Cont.
Each year, LSP grants 25 scholarships, which cost on
average:
US$75.00 to support one elementary student
US$100.00 to support one middle (Jr. High) student
US$125.00 to support one high school student
US$75.00 to support one vocational/technical student, and
US$150 to support one university student.
Challenges
It is difficult to secure funding to sustain the Local
Scholarship program
We lack technical skills to professionally design, implement,
monitor, and evaluate new and even existing projects.
We lack skills and knowledge to write stronger grant
proposals to compete with other applicants for the same
funding.
Financial support is limited and those that we receive are
infrequent.
Our Success Story
YSWMBAP project has educated residents about solid waste
disposal and they now dispose their domestic solid wastes
properly
Mountain of garbage piles that once stood along roadsides in
the Paynesville community have disappeared and the air even
smells fresher
Some residents now support our local scholarship program
We collaborate with institutions and individuals to sustain the
LSP program.
Our Partners
In Liberia, we partner with:
Members of the Board of Directors of YONER-LIBERIA The Ministry of Youth & Sports The Liberia Civil Service Agency The Paynesville City Corporation The Federation of Liberian Youth The Liberia YMCA and the Global Communities
Our Partners Cont.
Abroad, we partner with:
The World Youth Alliance The German Marshall Fund of the United States The OPC Policy Centre of the Kingdom of Morocco
Invitation for Partnership
We will like to invite you to become one of our partners to help us:
Financially to support our Local Scholarship Program to sponsor a child
Remotely provide technical support to proof read our documents and to advise us on how to strengthen them
Write grant proposals to compete in appropriate grant competitions
Invitation for Partnership Cont.
Or you can help us financially to purchase modern waste collection equipment, to buy metal garbage containers that we supply in our subscribers’ homes, and to pay better wages to youth workers.
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