Extinguishing Poverty through Innovative Strategies
Our mission is to educate and employ young people in technology, agribusiness, eco-tourism, entrepreneurship and the creative arts.
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OUR MISSION
Creating Jobs and Employment for youth in Africa
Access to resources will enhance youth productivity and relevance to their communities.
- AYM is a youth-serving organization that encourages and works with young people to explore creative solutions to poverty.
- AYM engages youth as change-makers in rebuilding and developing rural communities through innovative and progressive local-driven programs and enterprises.
- AYM revitalizes youth potentials in rural communities for social and political stability through education, technology, agribusiness, eco-tourism, entrepreneurship, and the creative arts.
- AYM facilitates increased access to critical resources and opportunities for rural youth.
Empowering and Mobilizing Africa’s Youth through Employment.
We Are, Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement (AYM)! We Are AYM!!! We work to transform lives and communities.
Our VISION is to reverse the social and economic marginalization of Africa with people, ideas, and resources.
Mobilizing Africa’s unemployed and underemployed youth is the key to the continent’s economic growth and future stability.
Education, skills training, jobs creation and entrepreneurship are keys to moving communities away from poverty, disease, and hunger.
Extinguishing Poverty through Innovative Strategies
Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement empowers rural youth through technology programs and prepares them for employment in good paying jobs and enables them to take control of their own future.
OBJECTIVES OF AYM
- Extinguish rural poverty.
- Provide youth with job training to acquire employable skills.
- Shrink the share of youth most at risk of being left behind in the labor market.
- Promote youth self-employment in Sierra Leone as a model for our African intervention.
OUR CORE VALUES
EMPATHETIC
COLLABORATIVE
TRUSTFUL
INNOVATIVE
PRACTICAL
FEARLESS
ACCCOUNTABLE
HONESTY
LOYAL
GIVING
OUR CORE VALUES
EMPATHETIC
COLLABORATIVE
TRUSTFUL
INNOVATIVE
PRACTICAL
FEARLESS
ACCCOUNTABLE
HONESTY
LOYAL
GIVING
OUR CORE VALUES
EMPATHETIC
COLLABORATIVE
TRUSTFUL
INNOVATIVE
PRACTICAL
FEARLESS
ACCCOUNTABLE
HONESTY
LOYAL
GIVING
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WHAT WE DO
Agriculture Program in Sierra Leone
In launching the Sierra Leone Youth Vegetable Gardens program in 2007, AYM opened three sites to grow new crops like lettuce, carrots, cabbage, onions, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, peas, green beans, and a wide variety of other vegetables and herbs…
Development of Ecotourism in Sierra Leone
Moselleh beach sits along the Jong River in Mattru Jong. It is also home to breathtaking waterfalls, fine white sand, and natural tree shades. Entertainment facilities will be established on Moselleh beach, and the volunteers will be trained…
Empowering the Next Generation is Key
Entrepreneurship is at the core of AYM Program Design. The organization will always seek financial support from well-wishers and donors. But, its future as an economic institution for the social good, lies in a solid business plan that would generate…
WAYS TO SUPPORT US
Youth Employment in Africa Virtual Conference
September 6, 8, 12, 14, 19, and 21, from 8:00 am to 11:00 am EST each day.
Don’t Miss an Event
Check out all the exciting events we are putting together here at AYM and learn how you can help empower the youth of tomorrow, today.
OUR SPONSORS
“Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”
— Jerry Rice
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
— Dudley Malone
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
— Christopher Morley
“Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.”
— Andy Biersack
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
— Milton Berle
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
— Muhammad Ali
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
— E. Cummings
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”
— Augustus Hare
African Youth Movement
6811 North Ave. Middleton, WI 53562. USA
Tel: (608) 879-5487
WHERE WE WORK
USA
Sierra Leone
United Kingdom
Africa
Copyright © 2018, Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement (AYM), Inc., USA. All rights reserved. Developed by Virtual Diplomats
AYM is a 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Organization, EIN 39-1742519. Our mission is to Create Jobs and Employment for Youths in Africa!