(Youth Empowerment Somalia) is a new vibrant youth movement organization in Somalia. Unique combinations of multicultural, interfaith, multiple backgrounds in education, culture and experience are the foundation which connecting and bond us as one youth movement. YES was mainly founded by group of Somali Youth in Somalia in 2008 through a program called YES carried out by CAS a Somali LNGO , to ma
ke Somali youth be able to give their maximum contribution for their family, environment, in Somalia, and the world itself. Besides that, YES also aimed in preparing Somali Youth to be able to respond global challenges, including challenges affecting their future and to increase access of vulnerable youth to quality, demand-driven, employment-focused self-employment training, information and communication technology, life-skills information, counseling and employment advisory services; increase employment of the unemployed youth through enterprise-based training and internships with existing enterprises in order to improve their chances of getting jobs. YES believes that Youth would not be able to give their maximum contribution unless youth themselves got an improvement. That is where YES can play its role, by providing assistance for youth in improving themselves. YES does also believe in quote, like a drop that falls in the water, no matter how small is the drop, still it creates a long-range wave.’ It means that even the small thing could bring a great impact if it falls in the right medium (there will be no long-range wave if a drop falls in land) and “Dreams come true if they are kept alive”. So, no matter what kind of youth they are either, skilled, semi-skilled or even unskilled, through YES they still could bring a significant impact to their own environment, as long as they have a willingness to be better and contribute
