Projects

AYEE Summit 

The Annual Youth Education & Empowerment Summit is an  international youth focused summit on education, participation, engagement and empowerment endorsed by the Ministry of Education, Republic of Liberia and  serve as the premier gathering of youth in Liberia that brings hundreds of young leaders, edupreneurs, entrepreneurs and innovators from across Africa and the rest of the world. This provides an opportunity for youth of different continents or regions to collaborate, share best practices and challenge their thinking during interactive plenary sessions and debates.

Making Children Voices Count(MCVC+)

YOCEL will raise awareness on children’s rights and in particular violence against children, via social media with support from Kids Rights. We will train twenty children on ICT and social media, leadership and campaigning, in order to start their own campaigns on violence against children. This way children will teach and inform other children and expand the circle of awareness across the country.

 Our Voices, Our Future

“Our Voices, Our Future” is a Multi-media elections project by YOCEL, which was funded by IBIS and Alert Fund to create awareness around election issues by engaging and encouraging women and youth to register to vote. The Project is predicated upon representative and participatory local governance and the need to increase young people and women participation in elections. This contribution by YOCEL recognized the significance of local organizations supporting the National Elections Commission to create awareness and outreach to sensitize the public about the voters’ registration process and have them commit to voting in the upcoming October elections in Liberia. 

An Alumni Community For Every School, Liberia

An Alumni Community For Every School is a YOCEL project implemented in collaboration with Future First Global. The project aims at turning every school into a community – supporting the school to work transition and creating fairer societies worldwide. Creating ways in which Former students can support their old schools in a variety of different ways, from mentoring to running after school clubs, giving careers talks or taking on work experience students and making cash donations. 

 

Post Ebola Student Assistance Program (PESAP)

This project is meant to support the education and empowerment of children who were affected by the ebola outbreak (Ebola Orphans) and also provide relevant opportunities that enable them reconnect with their destiny or future goals. The project is supported by Friends of Liberia (FOL) through their small grant program and implemented in Voinjama, Lofa County with a target of 10 beneficiaries attending the Voinjama Public School.  The #PESAP project provide material support, tuition payment and facilitate a semester-long workshop for its beneficiaries.

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Youth Education Network

This unified and vigorous network create space for capacity building, networking and experience sharing amongst the youth of Grand Gedeh and beyond. The network draws upon the outcomes of the Joint Education Sector Review (JESR) process; specifically, the role of youth in overall implementati on of the Grand Gedeh education priorities identified during the JESR meetings held in Buchanan, Liberia during July, 2015.  

Youth Advisory Group on Education (YAGE)

The Youth Advisory Group on Education is convened by YOCEL under its Inspiring Youth To Act model (IYA) to provide strategic support and advice to the Youth Education Networks and facilitate national, regional and international advocacies and discussions around the improvement of the Liberian education and governance sectors. The group consists of 8 passionate, enthusiastic and open minded youth from different background representing a variety of interests. This group main function is to build momentum and increase support for access to quality education and improved accountability and transparency across

all sectors.  

Youth Volunteer Program (YV)

The Youth Volunteer Program (YV) is a group of passionate and committed individuals who believe in and share similar vision with YOCEL, and agree to raise awareness about YOCEL programs in their local communities. These enthusiastic young people engage into series of advocacy campaigns and drive social, political and economic change in their environments.

EduCheck-Liberia

EduCheck is a simple and youth friendly mobile application that provides a unique platform for citizen’s time in memorial to access the country national budget with no cost. The project is expected to make the national budget accessible to over 5,000 users over the period of two (2) years.

Reading For Every Child 

The Project also aims at enlightening the minds of students to be great writers and encourage them to read Liberia authored books.  Reading For Every Child Project is an emerging model of building a society with good readers, thinkers and writers. We partner with local organizations to make this dream a reality and we also believe in the creativity of students. We broaden their horizon; to have a good reading habit, writing skills, an analytical skill, concentrative levels increased and listening skills developed.  Once these are achieved, it equips and empowers our youngsters for the Great Green Future that awaits them.