About Us:
Capacity for Youth Liberia is a non-governmental, non-for-profit making national organization legally registered, accredited by the government and operating in Liberia with the overall aim of working to provide Basic Technical Training in Life Skills & Practical Skills (Peace building, Conflict Management, Business Development, Communication and Negotiation Skills, Adult Literacy & Numeracy, Carpentry, Masonry, Pastry etc. and Agriculture (Food Production, agriculture marketing & Product Processing) programs in our society. Capacity for Youth Liberia has six major thematic focus including:
a) Life Skills
b) Practical Skills
c) Agriculture
d) Business Development
e)Protection
f) Advocacy.
In addition we do PTA Development.
Our gender strategy is being developed within the framework of our thematic focus of training/awareness programs. We are particularly active in promulgating issues directly impacting women, children and youths including: literacy & numeracy, gender-based violence, prevention and control of (sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, and HIV/AIDS), inheritance law and anti-rape law.
Historical Background:
Between 1989 and 2003, intermittent civil war in Liberia claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Liberians and further displaced a million others into refugee camps in neighboring countries.
The 2005 peaceful elections with the inauguration of the first female Head of State in Africa in 2006 ushered in a period of hopes and high expectations for recovery and development after decades of poor governance and destabilization. The consequences of 14 years of brutal conflict constitute high challenges to Liberia’s recovery, reform and rebuilding process.
The war devastated the infrastructure (poor and dilapidated roads, water, electricity, health and education services) resulting in widespread poverty, complete lack of, or extremely limited, agricultural production and breakdown of family and community coping mechanisms. Internally Displaced People (IDPs) have been most affected; some of them have been displaced seven times since 1999. As a result, Liberia remains among the world’s most food insecure countries.
Liberia’s entire population was affected by fourteen years of protracted civil conflict. The World Food Program (WFP) and other partners had been providing food rations and other items and still helping with food and other items to about a third of the population. More people are still unable to find their ways out.
The youthful population is the segment of the population every nation relies on to improve living standards, create jobs, etc. and as such they need to be adequately equipped with skills and education and frequent molding of their minds.
It is against this background that Mr. Daniel K .Fully, an outstanding young man with a lot of youth and community development experiences from across Liberia with agencies and organizations including but not limited to Ministry of Youth & Sports/United Nations Development Program, United Nations International Labor organization, IBIS West Africa, Ministry of Education, Language & Cross-Cultural Facilitator for the United States Peace Corps Liberia, etc. see it very necessary to establish this national organization to assist the Government and its partners in building the capacities of our war-affected population for self-sufficiency.
Capacity for Youth Liberia is a non-governmental, non-for-profit making national organization legally registered, accredited by the government and operating in Liberia with the overall aim of working to provide Basic Technical Training in Life Skills & Practical Skills (Peace building, Conflict Management, Business Development, Communication and Negotiation Skills, Adult Literacy & Numeracy, Carpentry, Masonry, Pastry etc. and Agriculture (Food Production, agriculture marketing & Product Processing) programs in our society. Capacity for Youth Liberia has six major thematic focus including:
a) Life Skills
b) Practical Skills
c) Agriculture
d) Business Development
e)Protection
f) Advocacy.
In addition we do PTA Development.
Our gender strategy is being developed within the framework of our thematic focus of training/awareness programs. We are particularly active in promulgating issues directly impacting women, children and youths including: literacy & numeracy, gender-based violence, prevention and control of (sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, and HIV/AIDS), inheritance law and anti-rape law.
Historical Background:
Between 1989 and 2003, intermittent civil war in Liberia claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Liberians and further displaced a million others into refugee camps in neighboring countries.
The 2005 peaceful elections with the inauguration of the first female Head of State in Africa in 2006 ushered in a period of hopes and high expectations for recovery and development after decades of poor governance and destabilization. The consequences of 14 years of brutal conflict constitute high challenges to Liberia’s recovery, reform and rebuilding process.
The war devastated the infrastructure (poor and dilapidated roads, water, electricity, health and education services) resulting in widespread poverty, complete lack of, or extremely limited, agricultural production and breakdown of family and community coping mechanisms. Internally Displaced People (IDPs) have been most affected; some of them have been displaced seven times since 1999. As a result, Liberia remains among the world’s most food insecure countries.
Liberia’s entire population was affected by fourteen years of protracted civil conflict. The World Food Program (WFP) and other partners had been providing food rations and other items and still helping with food and other items to about a third of the population. More people are still unable to find their ways out.
The youthful population is the segment of the population every nation relies on to improve living standards, create jobs, etc. and as such they need to be adequately equipped with skills and education and frequent molding of their minds.
It is against this background that Mr. Daniel K .Fully, an outstanding young man with a lot of youth and community development experiences from across Liberia with agencies and organizations including but not limited to Ministry of Youth & Sports/United Nations Development Program, United Nations International Labor organization, IBIS West Africa, Ministry of Education, Language & Cross-Cultural Facilitator for the United States Peace Corps Liberia, etc. see it very necessary to establish this national organization to assist the Government and its partners in building the capacities of our war-affected population for self-sufficiency.