African Youth

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How Does The Youth Café Embody Purposeful, Ethical, And Value-Based Leadership In Africa?

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How Does The Youth Café Embody Purposeful, Ethical, And Value-Based Leadership In Africa?

The basis for the prioritization of youth development is rooted in Our Strategic Plan, which looks at today's youth bulge as an opportunity for development and economic growth. The prioritization of youth development has made The Youth Café the leading organization in realizing sizable, lasting, and positive changes in the lives of young people in Africa. Youthful audacity to dream big and execute those dreams is essential in tackling Africa's daunting challenges today. Fostered by grassroots knowledge, The Youth Café commits to reducing youth deprivation and socio-economic empowerment resulting in transformative change.

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African Entrepreneurship Forum 2021

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African Entrepreneurship Forum 2021

The Youth Café was honored to speak at the African Entrepreneurship Forum, that took place virtually on the 30th of November, 2021. The Youth Cafe’s Executive Director, Willice Onyango and a young entrepreneur from our network, Glodine Ndhlovu who is a young business woman and speaker from South Africa

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Africa True Story, Enabling Chinese And African Content Creators To Obtain Income Growth And Digital Opportunities

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Africa True Story, Enabling Chinese And African Content Creators To Obtain Income Growth And Digital Opportunities

The Africa True Stories program is a digital brand project implemented by The Youth Café in collaboration with Pumbaa Eco. We invite leaders in different industries, young people, and Chinese people living in Africa to share stories about their lives in Africa. In doing so, the information gap and bias is reduced and enables Chinese and African content creators to obtain income growth and digital opportunities.

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Towards Vaccine Equity: Youth Access To Covid-19 Vaccine In Africa

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Towards Vaccine Equity: Youth Access To Covid-19 Vaccine In Africa

Despite the need to be vaccinated, Africa is falling behind in the global vaccination drive with only 3% of the continent’s population being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a press release from the African Union. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), dedicated to “immunization for all” had a virtual introductory meeting with The Youth Café. The meeting involved discussion on increased engagement and collaboration in the African continent engaged in Covid-19 advocacy at the regional and continental levels.

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Taking Part In The 2063 Academy Youth Dialogue

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Taking Part In The 2063 Academy Youth Dialogue

The Agenda 2063 youth dialogue incorporated different Non-Governmental Organizations that presented the work that they do and their recommendations as to what they believe can be done to advance the needs of African youth. Read more about some of their recommendations to achieve Agenda 2063 “integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens, and representing a dynamic force in the global arena”

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Promotional Partnership For Youth Ecopreneur Awards

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Promotional Partnership For Youth Ecopreneur Awards

Stand a chance to win $15,000!! The International Trade Center with the support of The Youth Café have partnered to promote the Youth Ecopreneur Awards. The Youth Ecopreneur Awards are the first of their kind which aim to promote youth entrepreneurship in the green economy. The award is calling upon young ecopreneurs with innovative solutions in three categories; Renewable energy and energy efficiency, Sustainable waste management and Efficient use of water.

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Statement On International Youth Day 2021 | Creating Spaces And Opportunities For Global Food Systems Through Youth-led Innovation

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Statement On International Youth Day 2021 | Creating Spaces And Opportunities For Global Food Systems Through Youth-led Innovation

International Youth Day takes place annually on the 12th of August. This year’s theme is focused on “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”. Though, the success of this effort on a global scale can only be achieved through the participation of youth. There are always discussions about the need for inclusive support mechanisms that will help ensure that youth will keep amplifying the need to collectively protect life on earth. Through initiatives like this, The Youth Café is at the forefront of guiding youth to become more involved with creating a society that advocates for food sustainability, and human as well as planetary health.

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Partnering With LEAP Africa On The Youth Day Of Service

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Partnering With LEAP Africa On The Youth Day Of Service

The Youth Café is excited to announce a partnership with LEAP Africa to implement Youth Day of Service 2021. YDOS is a week-long youth-led social impact campaign to create awareness and mobilize young people across Africa to take civic action in commemoration of the annual United Nations’ International Youth Day, held from 12th August to 18th August, 2021. The campaign theme of 2021 is ‘Youthful and Useful’ as the goal is to foster the active engagement of youths for community development and actualizations of the SDGs in Africa.

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The Youth Café And African Boy Child Forum

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The Youth Café And African Boy Child Forum

At The Youth Café, we try to dive deeper and strive to understand the more nuanced image of the dynamics of masculinity’s social construct as we hear the conflicting accounts of experiences from young boys and men. We try to empower young people, inclusive of all genders and seek to comprehend the complex societal pressures and circumstances that young men face as they strive to build masculine identities. We aim to develop strategies that seek to motivate young men to cultivate non-violent, non-abusive, less dangerous versions of masculinity in favor of more life enhancing ideas to benefit Africa as a whole.