KFUK-KFUM GLOBAL (YGLOBAL) is an international organization that strives to empower young people around the world to take an active role in creating a just and sustainable world. The organization is a part of the World Alliance of YMCAs and the World YWCA, and has been working in communities across the globe since 1855.YGlobal South Sudan registered and opened a country office in South Sudan in 20
21 with Relief and Rehabilitation Commission N0.4,139 after having worked through several local partners for the last two decades in South Sudan. Mission
Together Building Global Justice and Peace
Programs
YGlobal offers a range of programs and initiatives designed to empower youth women and persons with disabilities in South Sudan under the following thematic areas:
1. Community Well- Being
Psychosocial Support: Community-Based Psychosocial Support (CBPS) and Child Art Therapy (CAT) are Psychosocial Support Counselling approaches which integrates psychosocial aspects into intervention responses following an emergency. CBPS & CAT enables trained counsellors and community workers to develop holistic rehabilitation and re-integration plans for the target groups. Safe Space: Given the sensitivity of the issues affecting PWDs, youth, and women, YGlobal work towards creating safe spaces for these groups. Key element in safe space is to create an environment for participants to feel safe enough to freely express themselves regardless of their ethnicity, religion, gender expression & identity, and physical capacity. YGlobal uses the power of safe space to dismantle deep rooted discrimination and inequality through young women’s leadership, access to Sexual Health Reproductive Rights development, Gender equality. Transformative masculinity is a tool for challenging dominant traditional gender norms of what it means to be a man/boy. These dominant norms of how a man/boy should be is harmful to men (cases of su***de) and to women (male/society perpetuated violence/oppression).
2. Meaningful work
Economic Empowerment: This component provides youth, women, and persons with disabilities with alternative means of livelihoods. This will involve mobilization into peacemaker saving and investment groups (PM-SIGs). Members in PM-SIGs receive trainings on financial literacy and entrepreneurship
and business development. The PM-SIGs are facilitated to run saving and investment schemes. Start-up kits are provided to PM-SIGs with market feasible ideas. Decent work: This allows the youth, women, not only to acquire skills in creating and finding employment but also educates and promotes decent work that has meaningful gain to the project participants. And promoting the rights of workers, prevention on sexual harassment & abuse at places of work.
3. Just World
Inclusion: People with disabilities (PWDs) continue to be excluded from vital services such as health care and education, livelihood activities, and programs that address gender-based violence. YGlobal adopts a holistic and inclusive approach to implement a combination of activities that not only target on empowering PWDs but also link local Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and Civil Society Organizations working on inclusion with the national initiatives to promote the rights of PWDs. Peacemaker Groups: The Peacemaker Groups target youth between the ages of 13 to 30 years with the aim of empowering young people who often feel subjected to suppressive structures. Through Peacemaker Groups, youth acquire skills, knowledge, and tools to become right-holders and engage duty-bearers to change systems at different levels of society. This is done through training, campaigns, meetings, radio shows and community outreaches. The Peacemaker Groups are important stakeholders for the advocacy component. Advocacy and Peacebuilding: Youth from peacemaker groups activities are trained on human rights, conflict mitigation and resolution, Transformative Masculinity, and awareness raising. By doing so, the youth can create campaigns and outreaches in the settlements and in the host communities. Impact - Over the years, YGlobal has had a significant impact on communities in South Sudan. Through its programs and initiatives, the organization has helped to:
- Empower youth and women to become leaders in their communities
- Promote mental health and well-being
- Increase access to economic opportunities
- Advocate for policies that promote social justice and human rights
- Capacity building for Organizations of persons with disabilities and Civil Society Organizations.
