SLYA (Sierra Leone Youth Association) is a nonprofit humanitarian base organization working for the development and empowerment of Youth and under-privileged children in deprived and vulnerable communities through various empowerment and developmental programs and projects. SLYA is an open umbrella which means it’s widely open to both male and female irrespective of tribal, political and religious
background. Its activities will be carried out within Sierra Leone with Headquarter in Bo City. In Sierra Leone despite the university population still had a large number of illiteracy, school dropouts, jobless men and women idling around. A surveyed carried out that majority of youth problems result from insufficient skills, low income, unemployment and incomplete education. SLYA main purpose is to build and maintain the human capacity of the youth and childen by enrolling them in our youth empowerment program. This program is meant to assist the youth in various ways including but not limited to the following; Job search/placement, education, skills development, health, security, entertainment and sports. SLYA have to work with existing youth groups to make sure that their members are registered in our youth empowerment program because the program is designed for every committed youth and not just a selected few. The programmatic focus rests on access to public services and promotion of peace at the community and policy levels.
