The African Union has deployed and onboarded the twelfth cohort of Youth Volunteers. The 45 Younger Professionals from 23 nations throughout the 5 areas of the continent, will function volunteers in varied African Union Fee Departments and in authorities places of work and ministries of African Member states for a interval of 12 months.
Carried out by the African Union Fee’s directorate of Girls, Gender, and Youth, the African Union Youth Volunteers Corps (AUYVC) is a continental growth programme that recruits and works with younger folks to foster volunteerism and to deepen the standing of younger folks as key actors within the continent’s growth and transformation. The programme supplies alternatives to younger Africans to work and achieve essential skilled expertise, social competence, worldwide publicity and management expertise, permitting them to meaningfully contribute to reaching an built-in, affluent, and peaceable Africa.
Since its launch in 2010, this system has efficiently recruited, skilled, and deployed over 1,000 younger professionals from throughout Africa and the Diaspora. As a youth growth and empowerment program, the AUYVC is an integral a part of the 1 Million Subsequent Stage Initiative, which goals to succeed in 300 million younger Africans by 2030 with concrete alternatives in 5 precedence areas – Training, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Engagement, and Well being and Wellbeing (4Es + H).
Africa boasts the youngest inhabitants globally with greater than 400 million younger folks aged between the ages of 15 to 35 years. With such a demographic, it’s paramount that the continent harnesses the potential of its youth. Aspiration 6 of Agenda 2063 affirms that the Africa We Need is “An Africa, whose growth is people-driven, counting on the potential of African folks, particularly its ladies and youth, and caring for kids”. AU-YVC devotes itself to producing a technology of African leaders, keen to serve their continent and its folks, educated of African dynamics, and brave to take cost and problem themselves on a daring journey of constructing themselves and their continent via service.
