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THINK YOUTH INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION (TYIA)-CAMEROON

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Agriculture Biodiversity Children Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Culture Development Disabled Persons Education Environment Extreme poverty HIV/AIDS Habitat Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Social Development Sports for Peace and Development Violence Volunteerism Women Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Information and communication technologies Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Research The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and HIV/AIDS Women and armed conflict Women and poverty Women and the environment Women in power and decision-making Social Development: Disabled persons Employment Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Youth Sustainable Development: Agriculture Biodiversity Capacity-building Climate change Education Information for decision-making and participation Partnerships Rural Development Sanitation Sustainable development for Africa
Geographic scope:	Local
Country of activity:	Cameroon
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	The mission of the organization is to created, promote and contribute to the implementation of sustainable development projects in the communities; By organizing training programmes, education, campaigns, conferences, workshops and seminars for good integration of young people from divers cultural backgrounds, different unique yet act as one integral for better and sustainable development of our communities. This organization was created on the 5th of June 2002 and has it legitimacy on the 10th of September 2004 with it registered number as 286/G.37/D.14/1/Vol8/89/BAPP done at Limbe, Fako Division, in South West Province of Cameroon. The objectives of T.Y.I.A are:- 1) To fight against HIV/AIDS amongst youths. We promote the prevention of the pandemic by organizing workshops, counseling and educational seminal to sensitize the youths on the prevention of the pandemic. 2) Prevent Child Abuse: We aim to reduce child abuse by organize workshops for children, to train them on their right and gives them free counseling as well as also organizing public sensitization to educate the community and their caretakers on children’s rights and on the possibilities to claim them, if being violated 3) Fight against youth unemployment: To prevent unemployment amongst youths is to prevent future poverty in our region. This objective is being realized by providing technical training programs to equip youths with talents for self-employment. 4) Gender Discrimination. Discrimination halts development and the people affected usually suffer from poverty. It is therefore very important to recognize the existence of discrimination within different groups and to empower the people affected. We believe that empowerment can be done through encouragement, different training programs and by creating awareness about existence of discrimination and on human rights. 5) Promote Unity of Cultural Heritage The bad practices of our culture have lead to a lot of economic fall in our community, since some people are been favored. It is very important to promote unity in our cultural practices and also the good practice of the culture. Organizing cultural manifestation programmes to sensitize the young people and youths on the good practice and learning of different cultures, will greatly improves on the cultural development of our community. 6) Encourage the Conservation of our Bio-diversity. We encourage the conservation of our bio-diversity, by organizing training workshops, to educate most especially the youths on how to conserve our natural resource, for greater development in the future.
Year established:	2002
Year of registration:	2004
Organizational structure:	The structure of Think youth Independent Association is made-up of;- 1) The Executive. 2) The Management Committee. 3) The General Assemble.
Number and type of members:	TYIA is 421 members. 1) active members consist of internal and external volunteers and Mentors 2) ordinary members. 3) Partnership members organization. 4) founding members
Affiliation with NGO networks:	We are affiliated with other NGOs
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Fees for education and training services Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants
Funding structure other:	Income generating projects fees

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