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Meera Shah’s 10 years in the public health sector have reinforced the old saying that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” As a medical health officer in Mombasa, Kenya, Shah works to promote good health with preventive measures like immunizing children and stopping the spread of HIV. “It’s a lot to do with education and creating that awareness so that you are creating the demand for...

How can data help with volunteering efforts? Melusi Mngomezulu from Swaziland shares his advice in this YALIVoices podcast.

Tina Musuya is the Executive Director Uganda’s Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) and a tireless advocate for ending gender-based violence. CEDOVIP works with communities, institutions, civil society, and the Government of Uganda to promote the rights of women and girls in order to create safer, healthier, happier, relationships, homes, and communities. Their work aims to create cha...

YALIVoices Podcast: Sylvia Kakyo on Keeping Girls in School by YALI Network Radio

Originally on a path to become a medical doctor, Orondaam Otto passionately redefined his career path to pursue human capital development and social entrepreneurship after witnessing a serious need for helping disadvantaged children access quality education and opportunities in his community in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He shares many of the practices that helped make him successful, as well as less...

When he was in high school, Emmanuel Agumah was diagnosed with Buruli ulcer. Categorized as a neglected tropical disease, or “NTD,” it kept him hospitalized for approximately three years and bedridden for about a year and a half. The disease, which he could have chosen to view as a disability, has instead given him a cause for which he fights. Agumah founded the Buruli Ulcer Victims Aid (BUVA) Fou...

Fatma Abdalla is a product of community action. Growing up, her mother would fundraise to pay her tuition. “The community stood by me so that I could gain my degree,” the business school graduate tells YALI Voices. “I feel that it’s my time now to pay back to the community.” Read more: yali.state.gov/yalivoices-education-key-change-professional

Do you see opportunities or obstacles? Listen to Selina Nkoile talk about how she saved the school she attended as a girl and how she promotes education. Read more at: yali.state.gov/yali-voices-selina-nkoile-saves-her-school

At a young age, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Victor Ochen says, “my choice remains peace and will always be peace,” in this YALI Voices podcast. Read more: https://yali.state.gov/yali-voices-victor-ochen-audio

Fombah Kanneh grew up in a makeshift house in the slums of Monrovia, Liberia, during the country’s civil war. As in many other cities, slum life in Monrovia is notoriously hard — plagued by drugs, poverty, hunger and peer pressure to engage in destructive behavior. Learn more: https://yali.state.gov/yali-voices-podcast-education-changed-his-life-now-hes-giving-back/

Volunteering has never been more important than it is today. With the spate of global humanitarian crises and the growing consciousness of alternative problem solving techniques available, volunteering with organizations that are solving societal problems gives people the opportunity to be part of the solution. Volunteering to help people in your community leads to your personal development and to...

Volunteering is the act of rendering selfless service to a cause, oftentimes for free and without coercion. It is about giving time to a good cause, specifically to help an organization, your community or an individual you are not related to. People who engage in this type of activity are known as volunteers. Read more at: https://yali.state.gov/yaliserves-joy-of-volunteering-1/

Before you decide on how and where you will volunteer, it is important to have thought through three key questions. Why do you want to volunteer? What volunteer opportunity best fits your career and/or other goals? And how will you maximize the potential in every volunteering experience? Read more at: https://yali.state.gov/yaliserves-joy-of-volunteering-3/

While you are volunteering, be honest about your skills and experiences. One of the best things you can do for yourself during your period of volunteering is to be completely honest about your skills, abilities and experiences. What you already know you can apply and build on; what you do not know you can learn — but this can only happen when you are honest to both yourself and your employers and...

An excellent way to appreciate the business of volunteering is to first understand how to get the best out of every volunteering experience, and this is what we will be looking at in this section. Read more: https://yali.state.gov/yaliserves-joy-of-volunteering-4/

Mr. Marshall Dyton, CEO of Freelance Web Solutions Malawi, interviews Mr. Alfred Kankuzi, Mobile Application Developer and graphic designer. Learn more and read the transcript at: https://yali.state.gov/yali-voices-malawi-kankuzi/

Mr. Marshall Dyton, CEO of Freelance Web Solutions Malawi, interviews Ms. Enelless Pemba Phiri, an arts and crafts entrepreneur in Malawi. Learn more and read the transcript at: https://yali.state.gov/yali-voices-malawi-pemba/

Felix Lanyo, is Youth Leader and Activist, Entrepreneur, Agriculturist, Peace and Climate Change Advocate, Humanitarian, Professional Digital Advertiser and Spoken Word Artist. His past projects include Scientific Research on Gene Repair to Combat Ebola, Malaria and HIV/AIDS in Africa which birthed World Scientific Conference in 2015. Inclusively, he is working on productive project; 'Agribusiness...

Michel is a 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow who works as a community activist and has spent several years working to reduce youth violence and encourage peaceful solutions to election-related conflicts. A graduate of Benin University, he currently serves as a United Nations Volunteer Peace Building Fund program assistant in Mali.

Macon Phillips podcast about renewable energy with South African Mandela Washington Fellows Adele Boadzo and Tshegofatso Neeuwfan. Adele Boadzo is a clean energy activist and solar entrepreneur with over five years’ experience in Africa’s energy sector. She is passionate about delivering clean energy projects to electrify the continent and is currently a project manager at a South African solar PV...

Jamila Mayanja has 6 years’ experience as a professional marketer, she is the CEO of Smart Girls Uganda, a company that empowers young girls and women through trainings to build their self-esteem. Through Smart Girls she started a franchise company called J Mobile Laundry Services that has contributed to curbing unemployment among the youth in Kampala suburbs, where she works as the team leader. A...

Manasseh Gowk, formerly Emmanuel Osei, is a humanitarian and an environmentalist with interest in food security and climate change. He holds a degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Ghana Business School and currently works as a Business Development Officer at PFL Education Ghana. His quest to enhance social development has earned him an award-winning poem “Broken Homes”; published i...

Fombah Lasana Kanneh is an entrepreneur and has been working with impoverished youths in slum communities on waste recycling for sustainable livelihood for more than three years. He is the chief executive officer of Youth Empowerment Training, a social enterprise that focuses on educating impoverished kids in slum communities with skills and materials in order to reduce poverty. Currently, he has...

She has over four years' experience in the community empowerment sector, focused on women and youth development. She is deputy coordinator for Collectif Des Association Pour La Citoyennetè Et La Sauvegarde Des Acquis Democratique Au Tchad, where she focuses on the association's training, management, and leadership. She is a contact person for IAVE in Chad, and the founder and president of a region...

Ako has worked for the past four years as the managing director of Radio Arc-en-ciel, a community-based radio station in the populous urban area of Abobo in Ivory Coast. Under his management, Radio Arc-en-ciel became known as the best community radio station of Ivory Coast, and in 2014 won a UNICEF competition on mother-and-child wellbeing. As a part-time consultant in advocacy and participatory b...