Our Volunteers:

YACAN as an advocacy organization ensure we open the spaces for children and youth to be actively involved in whatever we do for them through our advocacy work, we take our communities along from initiating concepts, development of programs, implementing and evaluation of our intervention, we do this through various means: community action groups, school clubs, CSO platforms, media platforms.
We encourage young people to become volunteer staff and train them as interns to experience the work we do for children and youth.
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Community Action Group: 

Our community action Group are set up in every community we work across Sierra Leone, by this we ensure communities knows how important they are in the work we do for them, We promote safeguarding and encourages all to be law abiding at all time and we build the capacity of children and Youth according to the intervention we take to the communities. We mentor peer educators, strengthen coalitions as members and support stakeholders and young people to ensure young women and Girls are safe as they participate.
 We are accountable to our beneficiaries so we let our community action groups know what we do and how they can make our work successful through their participation as we build the capacity of the community to take action by themselves.

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School Clubs:

Our schools Clubs has been our core strategy to ensure children in school participate in the advocacy on education since 2005, we operate 150 school clubs in our operational areas, club members are small in number about 20 to 30 children in each group per school but their role are most time peer educators and monitors what happen in the schools. With the free quality education program implemented by Governments in Sierra Leone our school club ensures we know what children undergo and add their voice to whatever we say as we advocate for more education in Sierra Leone, child protection, safeguarding and gender Policy support on how to work with school Clubs. 
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Our Partners:
Project Implementing partners:
World Vision

YACAN and World Vision Sierra Leone partnership officially starts in 2022, on advocacy towards Child Protection, Education and Developments to enhance safe communities that are free from child sexual abused, Gender based Violence (GBV), Domestic Violence’s and Bully of and by Children, Policy influencing and capacity developments for communities, children and young people.
YACAN is happy to partner and share its experience with a global partner like World Vision, as it greatly contributes to both organisational learning and sharing experience as we achieved our goal in ensuring that Communities, Children including partners achieves their goal and improved child protection and systems to help children realising their potential on their rights, protection, education and well-being.
With the long-time partnership between YACAN and World Vision Sierra Leone we are committed to continue working in areas of Child protection, Advocacy, Education and policy to reach the expectation of our beneficiaries in communities across Sierra Leone.

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Our Partners:
Project Implementing partners:
Oxfam:

YACAN and Oxfam In Sierra Leone partnership has mainly been on Youth and Education it is an exciting and a wonderful experience and has contributed greatly for both organization to learn and share our experience as we achieved our goal to see that youth are included in Governance and female youth enjoy opportunities just as their male counterpart towards their Education. With just one project and Oxfam folding up in Sierra Leone we are optimistic that we will continue our partnership from International level and we are committed to continue working in areas of Education and youth advocacy on policy to reach the expectation of our beneficiaries. 
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Our Partners:
Project Implementing partners:
"Stop Tampa on Girls" Out of the Shadows Index (OOSI) Project

YACAN in 2022 successfully join grantees around the world to implements the Out of the Shadows project, with the aim of promoting advocacy for government to make the right decision to end all forms of violence, sexual exploitation and abuse on children.
This partnership has help YACAN to strengthen it relationship with the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs and also the Ministry of Social Welfare on policy issues. The project is led by YACAN and Supported by New Venture Fund through the Ignite Philanthropy. During the implementation of the project YACAN has help the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs to provide evidence and call on the Government of Sierra Leone to review it Child Welfare Policy and contribute greatly to influence the process of reviewing the 2007 Child Rights Acts Bill which makes FGM on Children a crime in Sierra Leone and settles the age for Marriage making Child Marriage an offence in country when the bill would have been enacted by parliament.
The partnership has been of mutual respect and benefits on our mandates to both YACAN and OOSI, with successful implementation of the projects.
YACAN has prove to OOSI that young people can better organised and use their energy to end Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse through policy influencing and review.
YACAN strongly believe that both organisations are excited to contribute to the success and are willing to continue their partnership for the good of the children and young people in Sierra Leone and the world at large.

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Our Partners:
Project Implementing partners:
YPPD and Cordaid Sierra Leone:

YACAN, YPPD and Cordaid in Sierra Leone partnership has mainly been a short but impactful one for Youth and Peace building in communities. It is an exciting and a wonderful experience and has contributed greatly for YACAN to join other organization from across Sierra Leone to implements a Peace building project supported by UNPBF in 2021 to 2022, both organisations learn and share experience on achieving our goal of empowering youth to contribute to community peace building and advocates for inclusion in Governance and female youth enjoy opportunities. YACAN wish the UNPBF and Cordaid will continue such venture to build the capacity of youth and local organization on peace building project in Sierra Leone. 
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Our Partners:
Project Implementing partners:
Plan International Sierra Leone:

YACAN has partnered with Plan International Sierra Leone from 2007 and the partnership has been of mutual respect and benefits on the mandates of both organisations to address issue of Child Rights, Sexual Gender Base Violence (SGBV), Youth Empowerments and Girls Education. The organisations has been successfully implementing projects that has run in multiple years.
YACAN has proven to Plan International that young people can better organise themselves because both organisations are glad to contribute to the different organization Strategies from 2007 to 2020, as we celebrates our success and willing to continue our partnership for the good of the children and young people in Sierra Leone.
 
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Our Partners:
Project Implementing partners:
Planned Parenthood Association Sierra Leone (PPASL): 

Plan Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone (PPASL) has been one of YACAN initial partner from 2006, the partnership has been in youth life skill and PPASL has been a mentor to YACAN as the organization has share it office facility with YACAN in the early stage when YACAN was challenge with space back in 2007 to 2008. YACAN has been a grooming ground for PPASL peer educators and PPASL has been that institution that provided capacity support to YACAN for its staff and as a coaching ground for many of our volunteers. YACAN and PPASL partnership has grown to the extends the organization collaborates in implementation of core advocacy on health issues for Young People. 
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Line Ministries we work with: 

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  • - Ministry of Social Welfare
  • - Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs
  • - Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education
  • - Ministry of Technical and Higher Education
  • - Ministry of Youth Affairs
  • - The National Children Commission
  • - National Youth Commission
  • - National Youth Service Secretariats
  • - The Teaching Service Commission
  • - National Council for Civic Education and Development (NaCCED)
  • - Human Right Commissioner
  • - NATIONAL SECRETARIAT FOR THE REDUCTION OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY
  • - Ministry of Health and Sanitation
  • - Freetown City Council
  • - Western Area Rural District Council
  • - Moyamba District Council
  • - Ministry of Planning and Economic Development

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Advocacy Campaign Partners: 

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  • - End violence against Children
  • - Education for All Sierra Leone Coalition (FEA-SL)
  • - National Election Watch (NEW)
  • - Child Right Coalition Sierra Leone (CRC-SL)
  • - Teenage Pregnancy and Child Marriage Secretariats
  • - Community of Practice (COP)

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Media Partners:

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  • - Society for Radio Democracy FM 98.1 in Sierra Leone
  • - Afri Radio FM. 105.3 in Sierra Leone
  • - Star Radio and Television In Sierra Leone
  • - Awoko News Paper
  • - Hands of Hope Radio Station
  • - Scope News
  • - Newspaper page with YACAN featured
  • - Media Partner Picture
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Areas We Work

Western Area Urban (Freetown and urban slums)

Western Area Rural (Tombo, Mountain, Waterloo and Goderich Area)

Moyamba District, Southern Province

Port Loko District, Northern Province

Kono District, Eastern Province

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Sierra Leone, West Africa.

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