Members

NAYD members page.

AHURTOD - Defending Human Rights

As part of its good governance projects we continue to encourage women and youths to register for elections and to take a stand against electoral fraud and corruption. Future seminars are planned in the town of Tiko and at the University of Buea.

We are working to improve educational and vocational opportunities for inmates at the Central Prison, Buea, where illiteracy is a problem and many detained persons are under the age of 25.

Association for Creative Teaching for rural Youths and Women in Development - ACTWID KONGADZEM map

We organize and train youths on Sexual and Reproductive Health. We do a lot of work on Care and Support to orphans and vulnerable street children and also the rural youths living with HIV/AIDS/TB in our town and villages. We organize peace marches on every 1st December which is World AIDS Day and on every 24th March which is World TB Day to create awareness on prevention and care of both disease. We train trainers who are youth’s leaders from our village groups on how to live free and share love with other youth and community members.

We have a group medicinal garden where we grow a good variety of medicinal plants with ARTEMESIA herb which is the herb that treats Malaria . Other herbs for boosting the Immune System too in our garden are Echinacea, Stinging Nettle for coughs we grow Plantain 1 and 2, Red mint Clover, Dandelion. Other herbs are Camomile, yarrow, fennel, garlic, Rosemary, comfrey and carrot. We also do small scale animal rearing to balance nutrition.

National president - Wendi Losha Bernadette. ACTWID KONGADZEM NGO Head office Po Box 16 BAMENDA NWP Cameroon.

Benevolent Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Socially Underprivileged - BAPESU gallery

Our goals are the protection of the environment through information campaigns, sensitisation, tree planting and seedlings for farmer etc; reduce feminisation of poverty; rehabilitation of destitute children and women empowerment; combating HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; promoting community development (participatory approach); nursery of trees and seedlings for farmers; peace building.

In 2006 BAPESU successfully executed a project christened “HIV/AIDS Youth Awareness Campaign. The project had as target group the young people of the Bambui Rural Community in Cameroon. The objective of the program was to help fight HIV/AIDS among youths in Bambui via awareness. The program witnessed the active participation of 30 Youth volunteers that gave insightful contributions towards the realisation of the program. The entire program ran for two weeks (27th March through to the 7th of April 2006). This program was achieved with the benign support from Alert Fund for Youth Activities and MEBONU Foundation.

Campus for Peace and Dialogue (CAPED) International

CAPED International is a campus-oriented think tank with headquarters in Yaoundé-Cameroon. It was founded in 2004 in the backdrop of simmering tension on many Cameroon university centres that finally degenerated into violent uprisings in 2005. It engages in training, research and advocacy as means to bring about positive change on campuses. Its specific objectives, among others, include: institutionalise peace volunteering among students; promote dialogue and other alternatives to acts of violence in resolving conflict and offer citizenship and peace education. In order to address a wider populace, the CAPED International carries its activities to all institutions of learning, from primary schools, colleges to the universities. The principal message it drives across is that there exist other alternatives to the use of force and violence.

CAPED has also partnered with many sisters organisations in Cameroon to co-organise other activities such as workshops and the commemoration of International Day of Peace that comes up every September 21st of each year. One of the strengths of this organisation is the up-to-date library it has erected which has a wide collection of documents in areas as varied a peace & conflict, gender, human rights, History, international relations, democracy and good governance.

The International Centre for Conflict and Human Rights Analysis (ICCHRA)

ICCHRA is managed by a dynamic team of enthusiastic, earnest and deeply convicted youths. We believe that nothing great can be achieved without enthusiasm. Projects to date include involvement as an action partner in Promoting Women and Youths Participation in the Democratization process with the Pan-African Institute for Development in a way that will build their capacity to make informed choices, aspire to governance positions, and effectively support the government in its various development commitments; leading commemorative activities in Bamenda to observe the UN International Day of Peace, September 2006 which included an Inter-religious prayer service for peace and a musical concert and candle lights procession; university conflict mediation from November 2006 when the University of Buea (UB) was plunged into a students’ strike. Mr. Chi Primus is currently a pioneer member/initiator of the national water and youth committee in Cameroon.

Life and Water Development Group - Cameroon (LWDGC) web

"WITHOUT PUTTING MUCH PRESSURE ON THE ENVIRONMENT, WE CAN HELP OUR PEOPLE DEVELOP THEIR POTENTIAL AND A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY"

LWDGC is an organization which aims at promoting the welfare of the underprivileged in our communities. Our activities include: Organizing Community/Rural Sustainable Development schemes for poverty alleviation: Promoting Education/Capacity Building for our communities:
Provide Primary Health Care and HIV/AIDS programs: Clean water for All; Promote Women and Children's programs:
Audio – Visual Training (Video editing, film/documentary shooting, directing etc…): Promote volunteering in our communities.

MAYA INITIATIVES - Fighting Poverty in remote regions! map gallery

Maya Initiatives is a two years old project that created by Pochi Tamba of Cameroon and Alexa gainsburry of Britain. We had met during a World Youth Conference in Scotland and thought we could contribute our bit to development by putting our efforts together. Initially, we were interested in the plight of orphans affected by extreme poverty. In remote regions of Africa, many poor orphans increasingly fall prey to social ills due to the poverty they live in. We put together MI to support these children in any way possible. Today, we have expanded our objectives to include any children affected by severe poverty. In that light, we work with orphanages to provide needs for their children and have succeeded to keep two very brilliant orphans from dropping out of school.

ROHI FOUNDATION map

Rohi Foundation is a faith based organisation that reaches the underprevileged by ministering to their holistic needs in the following ways: social evangelism; training in life skills; orphan rehabilitation; out-reach in remote areas and villages; training in IT; bible education; provide pscho-social support to children. Contact: Fuhbang Emmanuel Tanifum, P.O.Box 1060, Bamenda, 237 Cameroon

Save Your Future Association (SYFA) map Save Your Future Association

web

SYFA is non-profit organisation that works with African children, youths and low-income farmers in rural communities to promote organic farming techniques and protect the local environment. It was founded in 2001 by Farmer Tantoh and is located in Nkambe Central Sub Division.

OBJECTIVES OF SYFA:
• To sensitize the rural community on sustainable agricultural techniques such as tropical organic farming, through field training of low-income farmers.
• To encourage organic lawn creation and indoor flower gardening with children and youths in the rural community.
• To protect spring water catchments through planting agro forestry trees and educating the rural communities on watershed management issues.
• To create active environmental clubs in primary schools, secondary schools, churches, prisons, and in the villages.
• To promote formal education of the rural children.

Dieudonne (Farmer) Tantoh Nforba, Stanley Yengong Nforba

Student Global Aids Campaign (SGAC) map gallery

SGAC is committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action.With 42 million people living with HIV and AIDS around the world, an additional 15,000 becoming infected every day, and 8,200 people dying every day, we need effective and science-based prevention programs and inexpensive, life-saving AIDS medications.

SGAC participates in national campaigns and actions as well as develop and carryout their own projects. The work of SGAC chapters includes
• Educating students about the global AIDS crisis and their role in fighting it by holding teach-ins, film screenings, lectures, etc. on campus
• Lobbying, writing letters, and making phone calls to the President and members of Congress about global AIDS
• Utilizing media and direct action by holding rallies and press events to galvanize public opinion in the fight against AIDS
• Raising money for and partner with organizations fighting AIDS in the U.S. or abroad

The Africa Education Initiative (NEF) The African Education Initiative

The mission of the Foundation is to further the advancement of science and engineering in Africa. The Foundation hopes to achieve its mission by providing educational materials and essential tools necessary to advance educational institutions.

Through its education assistance program, the Foundation strives to promote academic research in institutions. It supports scholars pursuing a vast spectrum of professions. Funding also assists students at critical stages of their education.

The Foundation assists professors and students with contacting institutions or colleagues in other countries. Students in need of internships are assisted with making the necessary contacts. In addition, professors seeking information about institutions abroad offering research opportunities are also aided.

NEF believes in global education and therefore communicates and exchanges information with other international education Foundations. More info.

Young Farmers Development Group (YOFADEG) map gallery

YOFADEG is a non profit making common initiative group with goals to encourage agricultural activities amongst youths, fight poverty, hunger, HIV/AIDS and other STIs (including early pregnancies and abortion), to educate and be educated. Activities of YOFADEG are amongst others; carrying out sensitisation campaigns in schools, markets, hotels, hair dressing saloons and studios on the dangers of HIV/AIDS and other social ills, working on their farm where they have palms, cocoa and maize. As of now YOFADEG has been working in partnership with the Cameroon Ministry of Agriculture and Public Health, the African synergy against AIDS and sufferings, the Institute for Research Socio-economic Development and Communication (IRESCO) and the Amongst Youth magazine. Contact Emmanuel Ngenghe Ngeh

Guinea Ivory Coast Liberia and Sierra Leone

MANO RIVER YOUTH PARLIAMENTmap

The Mano River Union Youth parliament is a network of young peace builders, HIV/AIDS campaigners, Human Rights Activists, working to promote peace,Human Rights, stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, Leadership training, youth empowerment and all sorts of social and economic discrimination against young people in the four Mano River Union Countries (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast). S. Urias Goll - Program Officer

FOCUS (Families’ orphans and children under stress) map

FOCUS is a youth C.B.O formed as a response to the HIV/AIDS situation in Ruiru division Thika district as a whole. We have a membership of 30 youth members drawn from Thika district.
Founded in the year 2002 FOCUS uses multi dimensional channels of communication to promote socio-economic development. FOCUS also uses Theatre to advocate for awareness, behavior change and advocacy, primarily among the youth and the community through the ripple effect and the simple and sustainable community day care centers to care for OVCs and encourage community parenting web Read more

Youth Common Market map

This organization networks young people around the world on, fighting poverty diseases such as AIDS and environmental care.
INTREPRENEUSHIP -We encourage young people to participate in both local and international trade. Our member’s benefits from each other through controlled fair trade. Members can buy products from different regions of their country at a fair sale through the common market or from other countries within the agreed trade blocks.
HEALTH - We empower young people on the way to live a healthy life ie Physical; Social; Interectial; Mental. We also encourage all young people to eat well, do exercises, and stay safe from diseases such as HIV/AIDS, being instrumental in the society, and living peacefully with everyone and positive thinking
ENVIRONMENTAL
With the global warming, we are encouraging all young people to participate in saving our planet. We need to create a peaceful and safe place for generations to come.
We ask all youths to do everything possible from all part of the world to save and conserve the environment.
OUR STATUS - At youth common market we currently have 28,000 members from different parts of the world. In total, we have 2013 projects from different programmes
REGISTER - We encourage people to register as a group of 15 and above, in order to come up with common activities on Entrepreneurship, Health and Environment. NB: Interested individuals are asked first to register with their groups before registering with us.
BENEFITS - By becoming a member, you benefit from networking with many like minded young people from different parts of the world. You discuss on ways forward to meet set goals and lastly you can easily trade through our monitored fair trade.
NB we observe the set regional trade blocks i.e. AGOA, EU, ECOWAS, COMESA etc
We also give advice on what product is allowed to be trade between different countries.

YONECO (Youth Net and Counselling) map gallery

YONECO has taken a holistic approach in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The local organization has a number of activities that promote prevention, mitigation and empowerment of affected and vulnerable groups.

Organizational objectives:
To promote positive youth, women and child development through counselling, life skills, leadership and entrepreneurship development;
To safeguard, promote and protect human rights with particular reference to the rights of youth, women and children;
To conduct civic education on HIV/AIDS, human rights, gender, democracy, and good governance among the general population;
To enhance youth, women and children participation in democratization process and socio – economic development of the nation;
To provide social and economic support services for abused and victimized women and children at community level;
To provide care and support to those affected and infected with HIV/AIDS including people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans. Read more about YONECO

Charles Banda; MacBain Mkandawire

Association of Women Living With HIV & AIDS in Nigeria (ASWHAN) map web

ASWHAN is an umbrella body of support groups of Women Living With HIV & AIDS in Nigeria with over 88 support groups registered under it across Nigeria. Our aim is to improve the health and welfare of women living with HIV and AIDS and their children; and to promote a healthy and risk free life for all.

Objectives
• To sustain a common front to enable WLHA make informed decisions about their general well being through the provision of appropriate information, income generating activities and prevention of mother to child transmission.
• To create appropriate climate for policies and laws necessary for meeting the peculiar needs of women, children and families living With HIV and AIDS.
• To advocate for the mobilization of resources for impact mitigation and vulnerability reduction for women living with HIV and AIDS.
• To advocate for greater involvement of WLHA in the conceptualization, planning and implementation of impact mitigation and intervention programmes on health and developmental issues.
• To reduce incidences of stigma and discrimination amongst WLHA and maintain gender balance.
• Formation of women support groups and mobilization of Women Living With HIV and AIDS in order to widen the organizational base and strength of ASWHAN’s ability to function as a network. ASWHAN, 4 Jaba Close, Opposite Minister’s Gate, Area 11, Garki, Abuja

Interntional Centre For Accelerated Development (ICAD) map

Background
Is a voluntary non governmental and not for profit organization started in 2003 at Kebbi state by a group of corps members who after embarking on the ‘rural rugged’ program, had the conviction to address the felt needs of women, youths and children in urban slums and the rural areas of Nigeria.
The organization has been working in four departments –
• Reproductive Health,
• Human rights
• Information Communication Technology (ICT4 rural development)
• Gender development .ICAD, Haga Plaza, Gada Biyu, PO Box 10496, Jos

Rwanda Village Concept Project web map gallery

Rwanda Village Concept Project is a non political, nongovernmental, non profit making and voluntary Giving the christmas gift to orphans supported by RVCP , development Organisation aiming at improving the health and the living standards in underprivileged communities at village level as well as student capacity building.

It was initiated in 2000 by medical students at National University of Rwanda in collaboration with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA). The field work started in 2002.Now it has the main activities in Southern Province, and many Activities in Huye District and Huye Sector.
RVCP follows the guidelines of the Village Concept Project Document, created in co-operation between IFMSA and WHO in Geneva, 1998 and revised in 2003. More

Hippolyte Bwiza Muhire; Samuel Niyomugabo; Jean Claude Mwitende; Hovaire Nsabimana; Havugimana Cassien; Appolinaire Manirafasha; Eliphaze Tuyisenge; Augustin Hakizimana; Rugwirorusa Eugene; Mukunzi Domiunique Savio

Youth Action Internationalmap

Youth Action International is an American-based organization that was established to develop and implement programs that help alleviate the suffering of children affected by war or living in difficult circumstances and to empower them to reach their full potential. It is comprised of a growing network of young people using grassroots techniques to support the vision of war-affected communities as they strive to support their children. YAI’s programs are strategically developed to break cycles of violence and poverty.
Youth Action International is also in the advanced stage of establishing an internationally recognized center for women empowerment in Freetown. This program will provide micro credit and more scholarships for the children and young women living in the slums areas. The organization has earmarked close to 1 billion Leone’s to implement the project, which will provide specialized and high quality training opportunities for women.

Africa Youth for Peace and Development map

Africa Youth for Peace and Development organization was formed 1995 and was finally registered in the year 2000 under the ministry of youth and sport in Sierra Leone, as a voluntary, youth development organization that aims at organizing, empowering and creating opportunities for youths and Youths groups that are in difficult circumstances.

The organization has been working in the areas on Peace, HIV-aids, Homeless youths, War child, Health and Sanitation, youth development and total involvement of youths in the change of the society, That is by creating youth workshop training, seminars and conferences on how to bring everlasting peace and sustainable development for the minorities, the nation and the world as a whole.

JEUNES-DEVELOPPEMENT (Young Development) web

We are a non-profit NGO which aims to bring young people to get involved in sustainable development . We inform young people about the serious environmental problems without forgetting the realities of life of misery, situations of violence and war crisis that is facing mankind today, with the objective to get them to work for a wellness.

Achievements include Water Education; Environment Courses in schools; Campaigns for the protection of rivers in villages;Campaigns on AIDS in schools; Peace Education in schools; Camp site 2006; Peace Conference, 21-22 September 2006 in Lome; International Day of volunteerism with the Togolaise Television; (TVT) and the Radio Lome, on 05 December 2006; Organization of the Conference on the Law of Women, in partnership with Prefectural Direction of Social Affairs Services
Gulf, 07 - 08 March 2007; campaign on the importance of renewable energy in protection of the environment, April 23, 2007 in Lome; Radio conferences on environments More info

THE PAN AFRICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT - UGANDA

Objectives include:
1. Mobilize youth for development and empowerment.
2. Sensitize youth on pan African issues and agenda
3. Start small income generating projects that give youth income.
4. Introduce youth to the leadership challenges in African situations.

We have established clubs in the universities, colleges and secondary schools hence the youths are introduced to the challenges facing our continent. All this has helped to liberate people mentally.

International members