South Sudan, being the youngest country in the world, has 72% of her population under the age of 30 years. However, young people face enormous challenges trying to survive and build their lives. Majority of youth are living in abject poverty coupled with high unemployment due to reduced economic opportunities, and political instabilities. 

Most young women and men rely on small scale trade, subsistence food production and food-for-work to earn money. The precarious economic situation in the country has impacted young people who are particularly at risk of voluntary or forced recruitment into armed or criminal activities. Young girls are exposed to exploitation, sexual gender-based violence and domestic abuses. 

Our Youth Livelihood Programs aims to improve access to functional skills to equip young men and women with skills to enable them to achieve their goals of healthier lives through active involvement programs geared towards, generating an income, hence building a strong social cohesion of their communities. 

Our programs invest in leadership and peer mentorship model as avenues for strengthening an all-inclusive and coordinated positive youth development and responsive services at all levels of governance in South Sudan.  We do this by encouraging a bottom up approach by insisting on grassroots involvement at all stages of implementation.