• Youth Help Sierra Leone can create impactful networking events that foster meaningful connections among young people while empowering them as agents of change within their communities.

Flexibility in engagement methods ensures broader participation from diverse groups of young people, children, women and girls making advocacy efforts more representative and impactful. 

• Implement entrepreneurship training programs covering business planning, financial management, marketing, and innovation.

• Integrate entrepreneurship education into secondary schools and universities to foster an entrepreneurial mindset early on.

• Offer technical and vocational training (TVET) aligned with market demands, ensuring practical skills development.

Schools are ideal platforms for reaching young people with information about their rights and the dangers of harmful practices. 

• Educating children early helps break cycles of abuse by empowering them with knowledge about their rights. 

• Organize interactive sessions on gender equality, reproductive health, and human rights.

• Use age-appropriate materials like storytelling or drama performances to discuss sensitive topics such as rape or SBV.

• Train teachers as advocates who can identify at-risk students and provide support.

• Youth Help Sierra Leone and others partners create an impactful advocacy campaigns that address systemic issues related to FGM, child marriage, SBV, and rape while fostering long-term cultural change. 

• Community dialogues provide platforms for discussing the harmful effects of FGM and child marriage while encouraging collective action toward abandonment 

• Education is one of the most powerful tools to prevent both FGM and child marriage. 

• Youth centers or peer education groups allow young people to discuss sensitive topics like FGM or early marriage openly. Peer-to-peer education has been shown to effectively spread awareness among adolescents about the consequences of these practices 

Youth Help Sierra Leone’s climate projects have had profound impacts on local communities by empowering youth and women, improving food security, enhancing education on climate change, strengthening community resilience against disasters, promoting renewable energy solutions, and advocating for policy changes tailored to local needs. These initiatives not only address immediate challenges but also lay the groundwork for sustainable development in Sierra Leone’s most vulnerable regions. 

• Empowering youth with technical skills and knowledge.

• Enhancing community-based adaptation measures.

• Promoting nature-based solutions like reforestation.

• Addressing unemployment through entrepreneurial opportunities linked to sustainability.

• Raise awareness about flooding risks.

• Implement disaster mitigation measures such as improved drainage systems.

• Promote hygiene practices during emergencies.