SLYI

The Sierra Leone Youth Initiative (SLYI) is committed in connecting Sierra Leonean diaporas and their Netherlands counterparts closely towards sharing ideas, views, experiences and pooling their resources together to undertake initiatives geared towards promoting an open, better and quality education for all Sierra Leonean childeren and youth after the 10 years of civil war in the country.

Main Aim:
The main aim of our foundation is to support and promote the educational development of children and youths of Sierra Leone. This is made possible through the mobilization of financial and non-financial aid for specified projects supported by the foundation in Sierra Leone.

Vision:
Our vision is to create a pedagogical environment that will supports and stimulate the educational development of Sierra Leonean children and youths. Children and youths would have the opportunity to develop their individual capabilities, learn the cultural values of being a responsible, and independent citizen and to actively contribute to the development of the country after the war.

Strategy:
Our strategy is to set up in collaboration with the local chiefs and the communities in the regions, durable plantations in different chiefdoms of the country. The profit made from these plantations will be used to set up and support Educational Resource Centers in several districts of Sierra Leone.

The center would offer educational services to children who have successfully entered the junior secondary schools and the youths who were left out of school. The centers would also offer continued education services to those who dropped out of the educational system.