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Youths Empowerment Education Initiative

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Education Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: The girl child Social Development: Youth Sustainable Development: Education
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Nigeria
Millennium Development Goals:	Achieve universal primary education
Mission statement:	We exist to change the quality of the Nigerian educational sector and ensure that the Nigerian youth is empowered educationally and socially. Our three strategic priorities: Ensuring equal access to basic education to all Nigerian youths irrespective of location, ethnicity, religion and financial status. Ensuring the quality of teaching, particularly in the basic literacy and numeracy to our youth by collaborating effectively with the Ministry of Education and Universal Basic Education (UBE) & other stakeholders. Providing skills to link young people to opportunities and jobs to promote growth in all ramifications. OUR OBJECTIVES: To empower the youths through educational enlightenment programs, trainings, workshop and seminars, skill acquisition programs. To reduce the level of illiteracy amongst the Nigerian youths and to make them educationally useful to the society. To offer scholarship to the less privileged youth to enable them further their education and be responsible citizens in the society. To advance Nigerian youth for self development and capacity building of our nation. To encourage and promote girl child education. To encourage character, social change and development of leadership quality among youths. To assist youths and schools children towards development of their potentials, realization of their academic/personal ambitions and to become productive and useful instruments for societal growth and development. Providing new techniques, teaching methods for teachers on item generation and classroom management. To encourage and engage youths to enable them further their education and be responsible citizens in activities that promotes a re-orientation and development of positive values with emphasis on hard work and excellence for nation building. Building a sustainable foundation for educational development in Nigeria: Teacher education prospective.
Year established:	2010
Year of registration:	2010
Organizational structure:	1. Chairman 2. Vice Chairman 3. General Secretary 4. Director Admin 5. Director Research & studies 6. Director Finance 7.Director Logistics 8. IT Manager and media
Number and type of members:	Nine
Affiliation with NGO networks:	none
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues
Funding structure other:	Chairman

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