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Australia: Youth Challenge Australia (YCA)
Youth Challenge Australia was founded in 1992 with strong support from the University of Technology, Sydney. YCA has grown steadily since, quadrupling its annual output of Australian volunteers and increasing its full time staff proportionately. YCA aims to engage and empower young people through collaborative and sustainable work with communities, to create understanding and bring about positive change. YCA has now extended it’s reach to include programming in it’s own backyard – placing (often returned) volunteers in education and youth programming throughout aboriginal communities in the northern territory.
Costa Rica: Reto Juvenil Internacional (RJI)
Reto Juvenil Internacional (RJI) is a non-profit Costa Rican organization, which was officially registered in 1994 - though initial project work began as early as 1991. To date RJI has implemented more than 200 environmental and community projects, engaging over 2,000 international volunteers in the process. Winner of the nationally recognized "Contributions for the Quality of Life Improvements Award" in 2005, RJI works to support community initiatives that contribute to community growth, while also promoting the personal development of youth volunteers through their solidarity-driven participation in community projects.
Ethiopia: Emmanuel Development Association (EDA)
Emmanuel Development Association (EDA) was established in 1996 and has been a YCI partner since 2004. EDA provides social services to children and youth including employment training, HIV/AIDS prevention, gender equality promotion and active citizenship. YCI works with EDA in Debre Sina in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, where EDA is one of the only NGOs working on public health issues and youth development. EDA is a diversified medium sized organization in Ethiopia, based in Addis Ababa, but working extensively in rural areas.
Grenada: The Program for Adolescent Mothers (PAM)
The Program for Adolescent Mothers (PAM) is organized by the Grenada-chapter of the international nongovernmental organization ‘Save the Children’. In 2004 PAM introduced programming to the neighbouring island of Carriacou while YCI was working in the same locale under the ‘Hurricane Ivan Disaster Relief and Social Recovery’ Program. YCI has since partnered with PAM in providing life skills training and support for young women in the communities of Carriacou and now looks forward to helping extend PAM’s reach in nearby communities through the introduction of their new ‘Adolescent Development’ program.
Guyana: Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG)
Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) was incorporated in 1990 after YCI’s inaugural project in Guyana and has become a nationally acclaimed leader in youth development and HIV/AIDS. YCI has partnered with YCG for its entire history and much of YCI’s future success in all countries can be attributed to the relationship with YCG. YCG programs include HIV/AIDS education and counseling, skills training, gender equity, literacy and the expansion of peer education networks in remote areas. YCG is a strong sustainable organization with a long history of involvement with YCI and with Canadian youth volunteers, having involved over 1,000 young Canadians to date.
Kenya: Kwacha Afrika
Participants of a workshop on HIV/AIDS formed Kwacha Afrika in February 2005 as a youth group. In 2004 Kwacha Afrika was registered as a community-based organization and later as an NGO in November 2005. What began as a youth theatre troupe performing in community outreaches about HIV and AIDS has evolved into a full-service youth organization offering programming on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, gender equity and livelihood development. Based in Northern Mombasa, Kwacha Afrika as a youth driven and volunteer based organization aims to be the leading NGO in Kenya’s Coast Province in reducing HIV/AIDS infection and poverty.
Tanzania: Faraja Trust Fund
Faraja Trust Fund is a registered non-governmental organization established in 1991 in Morogoro, Tanzania. Faraja is an HIV/AIDS and community focused organization with a strong emphasis on youth and women. From only three volunteers, Faraja has grown into a vibrant institution with 83 volunteers including peer educators, home care nurses, credit advisers and life skills trainers. Faraja’s key programming activities are preventive HIV/AIDS education, HIV/AIDS care and counseling, income generation support for out-of-school youth, encouraging neighborhood women’s associations and providing access to legal and human rights support. YCI has partnered with Faraja since 2005.
Tanzania: ZANGOC
ZANGOC (Zanzibar NGO Cluster) is a Non-governmental organization established in 1996 that strives to build collective efforts in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ZANGOC is comprised of 30 HIV/AIDS organizations of which 10 are youth-serving and draws its members from the two Islands of Pemba and Unguja. ZANGOC’s vision is of strong, committed and dynamic member organizations that effectively fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zanzibar. The member organizations of ZANGOC are working on youth and HIV/AIDS programming and related youth employment and advocacy in Zanzibar. YCI has been working with ZANGOC since 2005 and has extended their capacity to deliver programs at a larger scale.
Vanuatu: Youth Challenge International – Vanuatu (YCI-V)
Youth Challenge International Vanuatu began in 2001. In 2004 YCIV initiated the Ni-Van Youth Program which provides further training for local youth volunteers and now boasts a high involvement of local participants. Projects are identified and initiated by the communities in which they occur with support from YCIV and primarily involve construction of local infrastructure or coordination of Youth Skills Summits. YCIV is careful to take into consideration environmental issues, land rights issues, sustainability of the project, and social and cultural impact. YCIV has built up a good reputation in Vanuatu with the NGO sector, funding bodies and the community.
Youth Challenge International-Tanzania is a Canadian-based, Tanzanian-registered NGO (registration # 00NGO/0062) that has been working with youth in Tanzania since 2004. In partnership with local non-governmental organizations, YCI-T has worked to develop youth-specific programming related to HIV/AIDS, gender, and leadership and life skills within urban and rural communities throughout Tanzania. The bulk of YCI-T programming is made possible through the regular work of Canadian youth who volunteer with YCI-T and its partners for 6 to 8 week sessions throughout the year.
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Our Approach to Youth Development
