Youth Education & Sports for Development Organization
YES4DO
YES4DO, Youth Education & Sports for Development Organization recognizes that the future of Africa’s wealth lies in the hands of its youth. Africa has the youngest population in the world, with 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 years.
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MISSION
YES4DO Africa's mission is to provide entrepreneurial development training and after school activities to every young person in Africa by 2040. We envision an educated, employed African youth who will grow to be successful business leaders, high class athletes and experts on creating a sustainable Africa.
With education, Africa’s youth have the power to solve the continent’s toughest problems and greatest challenges. YES4DO's Entrepreneurship Development Program will equip Africa’s youth with education they will need to bring wealth to themselves and the continent.
OBJECTIVES
YES4DO eradicates poverty and unemployment amongst youth globally and particularly in Africa by providing educational courses on sustainable development, personal, business, and diverse sports activities such as soccer and tennis, e-commerce, agribusiness, accounting, and diverse after school activities.
Reduce gender inequality by ensuring that girls have equal access to a quality education, access to opportunities and access to financial resources that are beneficial and dire for their future careers.
Improve Africa’s sustainable development by equipping youth with knowledge on sustainable agriculture production, eco-friendly farming practices, and climate change. With this knowledge, youth can begin to providing paid training jobs on responsible consumption and production to organizations and corporations.
Increase Africa’s agricultural productivity and food security by educating youth on agribusiness opportunities that are viable for rain-fed and low rain-fed areas.
FOUNDATION COURSES
In this course, students will learn how to become more employable for the job. We will focus on the following skills through a variety of tasks, assignments, and workshops:
- Soccer and Tennis
- Commercial awareness
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Negotiation and persuasion
- Problem solving
- Leadership
- Organization
Introduction to Self-Employment
For example in 2019, the unemployment rate in Senegal was 6.52%. A college degree is not a guarantee for a person to get a job. Many African youth finished their colleges education and ended up doing low skills jobs or go for adventures to developing western countries to find decent jobs.
A substantial amount of Africa’s youth sit and wait in the midst of trying to find a job. In this course students will learn how to generate passive income and how to engage in temporary self-employment.
With activities and assessments, students will begin to reflect on the skills they currently have. They will evaluate their strongest capabilities. What are they good at? Do they enjoy doing it? Is there a demand for this skill in the formal or informal market?
After the skill assessment, students will be introduced the concept of “passive income”. They will learn how to monetize their skills. Students who are not able to think of any skills will also have opportunities. They will be introduced to opportunities such as buying onions in bulk and selling them already cut in packages etc. Not every student will be cut out to be an entrepreneur and this class will be able to provide an assessment.
Entrepreneurship
How do you turn an idea into a business? Entrepreneurship focuses on recognizing a business opportunity, starting a business, operating and maintaining a business. Students will be exposed to the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation in this course as they will either be the business owner or individuals working in a competitive job market in the future.
This course will engage students in the creation and management of a business and the challenges of being a small business owner will be fulfilled in this course. Various forms of technologies will be used to expose students to resources and application of business principles for starting, operating and maintaining a business.
Professional communication skills and practices, problem-solving, ethical and legal issues, and the impact of effective presentation skills are enhanced in this course to prepare students to be college and career ready. Employability skills are integrated into activities, tasks, and projects throughout the course standards to demonstrate the skills required by business and industry.
Students will work to develop a business plan that includes structuring the organization, financing the organization, and managing information, operations, marketing, and human resources will be a focus in the course.
Finance & Marketing
Integration of accounting, finance, marketing, business management, legal and economic environments will be developed throughout projects in this course.
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GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteers have the opportunity to get involved with YES4DO ’s Youth Development Program in Africa and other regions.
- Volunteer sectors
- Economic Empowerment
- YES4DO ’s economic initiative is aimed at Income Generating Activities with the goal of promoting Economic empowerment of African youth. The main areas for intervention in this respect include the initiation and innovation of the following:
- Learning improvement
- sports activities
- Training on entrepreneurship
- Creating opportunities for African youth.
YES4DO ’s Computer Development Initiative is aimed at equipping the youth with skills that they can monetize by using international platforms such as Fiverr, Upwork, SAP etc. There is a high demand for businesses looking for services within the following domain:
- Web development and coding: huge for creating websites
- Graphic designing: huge for logo designing
- Digital Marketing
- Writing & Translation
- Video & Animation
- Music & Audio
- Programming & Tech