Active Ambassadors Network Sierra Leone

Active Ambassadors Network Sierra Leone (AANSL) a non-profit NGO that works towards promoting climate change, girl-child education, youth and women’s empowerment and youth leadership training. Website: www.activeambassadors.com
EMAIL: [email protected]
Mobile number: +23279579887/+23279111313

PREAMBLE
MOTTO: INSPIRE CHANGES
PHILOSOPHY: We believe that leadership is diverse and le

aders can be found everywhere in society. We believe that involving the youth in leadership can change the country more rapidly for the better. We believe that leadership is learnt better by doing

Active Ambassadors Network Sierra Leone (AANSL) a non-profit NGO registered with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children Affairs. AANSL works towards promoting climate change, girl-child education, youth and women’s empowerment and youth leadership training. AANSL has been working as a youth-led development organization whose vision is to raise the next generation of African leaders with a prosperous and democratic country where the youth engage in writing the next chapter of our history. It shall rally the youth of Sierra Leone to play an active role in the struggle of the country in building leadership and defence of democracy. Goal: Our Goal is to support and empower young people of Sierra Leone to achieve their leadership skill development, and to improve on their communication skills through voluntarism and community engagement, annual leadership training, mentoring and coaching. Our objectives are: Using education as a tool to bring greater unity to Sierra Leone, help young people discover their place in the world, inspire young people unto greatness and help young people bring out their hidden talents. Mission: Our mission is to support and empower young people of Sierra Leone to achieve their leadership skills through training, symposiums, conferences and inspiring and mentoring them for better and good leaders. Vision: Our Vision is to rise the next generation of African leaders with a prosperous and democratic country where the youth should engage in writing the next chapter of our history. Our innovative programs are focused on training and inculcating values within our global leader. The values we seek to inculcate are of responsive and responsible leadership, enabling our members to be change agents and problem solvers in their communities. We provide an enabling environment for the youth to turn their passion into a career or business. The organization has been instrumental in supporting young people who are less privileged and marginalize in pursuit of education. However, we have empowered young people in Sierra Leone to take the lead in Leadership, Campaign on Teenage pregnancy, Climate Change and sexual harassment. We organize youth leadership forums, enhance dialogue with key stakeholders in the promotion of youth involvement in policy and development initiatives and create partnerships and the civic participation opportunities with their peers. We have become a recognized youth organization in Sierra Leone for school-to-school peer education, with an emphasis on addressing difficult issues through peer instruction and facilitating community dialogue. We believe that we are well-placed to develop a model that draws on all elements to support young people and girls in Sierra Leone through our peer led outreach campaign. AANSL has previously work with stakeholders at the Ministry of Education, Ministry of youth affairs, Ministry of social welfare, Gender and children affairs and Senior Secondary Schools in Freetown. The organization has a MOU with RIFTS Foundation of the former Electoral Commissioner and deputy Minister of Education in which we work on several projects on education and sexual harassment campaigns. We have worked with Project Pekin and later sign MOU as one of our projects was on education for the slum’s children. We have also had a joint project with UN women on a sexual harassment campaign for girls in high schools. Among our other projects was mobilization efforts during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone on our Ebola education campaign which we partner with Restless Development and CDC. One month after the August 2017 devastating flood and mudslide disaster in Sierra Leone, schools, communities and educational facilities were lost. AANSL is an initiative of young men and women who are committed to the principles of democracy, freedom, justice and peace. The organization is a mass youth formation of the Active Ambassadors youth committed to the creation of a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous Sierra Leone. The organization has helped in grooming over the years youths that are able to tap into their potentials and bring out the best of their leadership skills for self-empowerment, national development and ready to take the mantle of leadership in diverse ways. AANSL is walking with senior secondary schools in Freetown and the provinces linking with local Community-Based Organizations (CBO) and working directly with a strong committed senior secondary school principal, the ministry of youth affairs, the national youth commission, And the ministry of social welfare gender and children affairs. Our way of engaging young people to actively learn, discuss and put into practices has however been used widely in Sierra Leone. Our experience has shown that peer instruction and innovative techniques (such as drama and role-play) are highly effective in Sierra Leone when dealing with young people. At AANSL, we practice what we preach by taking a leadership role as an organization. We have design and implemented social change projects such as: supporting the education of marginalized children, raising awareness against teenage pregnancy, and organizing a youth leadership forum and community sensitization of Ebola, climate change campaign including several others. Our core value: as a youth organization is that we must be challenged with opportunities to actively lead in matters that affect us, our communities and the nation because that is what makes us leaders. We will take initiatives and don’t wait to be reminded about our responsibilities. We practice what we preach by taking a leadership role as an organization. We have run campaigns on:
• Teenage Pregnancy
• Drug abuse and Violence
• Climate Change Campaign
• Sexual Harassment
• Inter Schools Debate
• Ebola / Health Community Sensitization
• Youth Leadership forum
• Campaign for the Right of Girl Child Education.
• Say NO to trade for grades in Schools and exams malpractices.
• Corruption and Environmental issues

MEMBERSHIP
Active Ambassadors Network Sierra Leone comprises of students from a wide range of Senior Secondary Schools and universities in Sierra Leone. OUR FOUNDING SCHOOLS
1. St Edward senior secondary school
2. Prince of Wales senior secondary school
3. Government Senior Secondary Kingtom
4. Albert Academy senior secondary
5. Annie Walsh memorial Secondary school
6. St Joseph Senior Secondary School
7. Freetown Senior Secondary School for Girls
8. Methodist Girls High School
9. Vine memorial Senior Secondary School
10. Government Rokel Senior Secondary School
11. Government Model Senior Secondary School
12. Government Technical Senior Secondary School
13. Services Senior Secondary School
14. St Joseph Senior Secondary School -Makeni
15. St Francis Senior secondary school -Makeni

UNIVERSITIES

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
IPAM and FBC (University of Sierra Leone)
Milton Margai College
University of Makeni (UNIMAK)