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Name:	Youth Partnership for Peace and Development
Location:	Freetown, Sierra Leone,
About me / us:	The Youth Partnership for Peace and Development - Sierra Leone is a voluntary and non-profit youth-led development organization working directly with development partners across the world. Established in 2005, the organisation is staffed by a group of young proactive youths who are convinced that development does not lie in the hands of the elderly alone, but also in those of the youths. The overarching goal of YPPD is to contribute to the endeavours of supporting youth development, peaceful conflict resolution, stability and sustainable development and peace and democracy in Sierra Leone. YPPD works to increase the capacity of vulnerable groups through training, partnership, advocacy, enhancing youth knowledge base and equipping them with livelihood skills. It is a platform for diverse kinds of actions committed to engaging key stakeholders at different levels of development across the country. Our strategic programme areas include youth enterprise development, access to justice, gender empowerment through education and training, geared towards increasing youth capacity and knowledge in enjoyment of their human rights, fundamental freedoms and participation in decision-making processes that affect their lives. This has subsequently made the organization one of the fastest growing youth organization in Sierra Leone and with a growing international membership of more than 250 young people the world over through the web-based social network called “yppd youth NetworK” The organization however was borne out of the desire of bringing young people onboard who can serve agitators and agents of change and activists in their respective communities for the promotion of advocacy and youth empowerment in nation building. It holds a conviction on young people as agents of positivism in terms of national development, thereby strongly believing that as young people there is the call for us to come together and build the buoyancy needed in others, as a possible way of enabling youth in stepping forward for positive changes in our various communities and the world at large. With our vision, we develop insight from the daily struggles of our fellow young people who are marginalized and voiceless in the communities they live. This initiative is entirely managed for and by young people in Sierra Leone, which we consider as a novelty in the lives of every young person trying to make a change. YPPD seeks to provide a ‘youthful voice’ that seeks to address the numerous challenges facing leaders of tomorrow by effectively using young resourceful minds to influence the course of inclusive policy formulation and development in a consistent and harmonized manner.
Why 1%MEMBER:	As as an oranization we are always inspired by the values of toetherness and active partnership that will promote the works we do. This we are sure will in turn help making the global village we are all craving to see some day in a not too far distance future.
Website:	www.yppdatwork.org