YOUTH LEADERSHIP

The Youth Leadership Project aims to improve the health, nutrition and economic diversity of rural coffee-growing communities through the training of local youth.

The Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship project supports communities by providing knowledge and strengthening skills in various areas, including management, monitoring and evaluation, community development, entrepreneurship, and more.

Youth learn a trade/skill that can later be used to establish a business venture and potentially increase income.

During the last part of the project, the teen participants design and launch their own entrepreneurial initiative with the support of Youth Leadership staff, based on the skills learned during the first year of the project.

In previous years we have created groups of young people who started their own group entrepreneurship, choosing to raise chickens, raise bees and grow oyster mushrooms.