BFF Launches Youth Development Campaign
Observes Global Youth Day
Published: 07 November, 2008
Better Future Foundation, Inc. (BFF) has concluded a week-long peace building and youth leadership campaign.
The campaign seeks to enhance the moral and intellectual development of the youths in Paynesville, outside Monrovia.
The campaign, according to BFF president, Augustine S. Arkoi, is part of the Foundation’s ongoing youth development initiative.
It was organized in observance of Global Youth Day held on October 29, 2008 at New Hope Academy located on Peace Island, Monrovia.
The campaign, sponsored and facilitated by BFF, is in line with a quest to support community actions toward ensuring youth participation, not only in decision making, but also national development process.
The 40 beneficiaries are members of a local organization, Youth for Moral Protection (YMP). They represent eight communities including Peace Island, Jacob Town, in Paynesville.
YMP president Augustine Moore, on behalf of the youth participants, lauded BFF for consistently and positively engaging the youth of Liberia to serve as catalysts for community harmony and development.
The YMP youth leader clarified that YMP is an offspring of Youth Beyond Barriers (YBB), an auxiliary of BFF.
The YMP, according to the youth leader, is a community-based association that is dedicated to enhancing the moral, spiritual, physical and mental development of community youth irrespective of their religious, sectional, ethnic and other orientations.
The week-long activities, according to BFF release issued in Monrovia, were climaxed by a two-day workshop, during which topical and power-point presentations were made by an array of personalities.
Among topics discussed by facilitators were the following: morality and cultivating character; self-esteem and citizenship; gender equality; HIV/AIDS; and life skills, among others.
The Global Youth Day activities, the release said climaxed by a field trip to the Public Diplomacy Section of the US Embassy in Monrovia, where the participants were given an opportunity to watch the debate of US presidential candidates, Barrack Obama and John McCain.
Better Future Foundation is a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) with chapters in Liberia and the US.
It initiates programs and activities aimed at promoting socio-economic, educational and cultural understanding and cooperation.
BFF is also dedicated to rebuilding the shattered lives of Liberians at home and in the Diaspora after 14 years of armed conflict that effectively left the country in ruins.
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