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Interested in helping youth in Sierra Leone create a more peaceful and prosperous country through leadership development, conflict transformation training, dialogue facilitation, and technical assistance?

Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBB) is running a Youth Empowerment and Leadership Academy that needs your support! The highest bidder on this auction item will receive a receipt for income tax purposes, a personalized Thank You Card via e-mail from the project team, and a project update upon completion.

Our goal is to raise the funds and be positioned to implement the program as soon as it is safe to travel. The programs are more important than ever as leadership capacity building on the ground is essential to the country's recovery and development.

The Youth Empowerment and Leadership Academy will take place over seven days and will provide 24 young people from all regions of Sierra Leone with training that fosters technology, presentation, communication, and leadership skills that they can take back to their communities.

Participants will be identified by MBB's local partners based on selection criteria that includes active participation in their home communities, a demonstrated desire to give back to society and positive societal values, and motivation to assume leadership roles.

The project is ambitious in its scope and aim, with a national reach and an international faculty, and will require a budget of approximately $40,000. The bidders on this auction item will have a special opportunity to get involved by contributing to MBB's Youth Project and by helping to make these activities possible!

Co-led by Loretta Raider (Principal of the Raider Consulting Group, USA) and Debey Sayndee (Director of the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation, University of Liberia), MBB's Sierra Leone Project works towards building sustainable peace in the region by empowering four target audiences: youth, women, tribal chiefs, and local community leaders. 

The following organizations are affiliated with the Sierra Leone Project:

WAVES, Project 1991, Colrag Family, Eastern Region Football Association, Youth for Development, Northern Polytechnic Student Union Government, United Social Youth Development Association, and the Institute for Leadership and Peace Building.

 

Item Special Note

The highest bidder on this auction item will receive a receipt for income tax purposes, a personalized Thank You Card via e-mail from the project team, and a project update upon completion.

Your purchase will not be charged to your credit card until after the auction closes.