About Us 

A BRIEF ABOUT FAYDI

Foundation for African’s Youth Development international(FAYDI) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental grass root development organization established in Ghana in 2010 that seek to mobilize and galvanize the new generation of Africans to train, inspire and challenge them to aspire for excellence in whatever they do, being it spiritual, academic and professional; and also to mobilize resources and to promote and support sustainable youth empowerment and rural development initiatives in Africa. FAYDI’s scope of operations cover every community in the fifty three (53) countries of Africa. Projects that FAYDI provides funding and technology interventions for must concern youths and have positive multiplier effects on the immediate economies of the youths of the benefiting communities, in addition to, considerably improving upon the GDP of the benefiting country. Membership of AFYIDEF is open to all Africans

Our efforts are supported by government contracts, foundation grants, individual and corporate contributions. FAYDI is governed by a Board of Trustees representing diverse community and professional interests.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to cost-effectively empower young people; women and children choose a better future for themselves through facilitating sustainable youth and rural development initiatives.

Our Vision

In FAYDI, we envision a society whereby spiritual, academic, and professional excellence is cherished as its core values; and also a society where children, youths and women are viewed as assets and resources, and thus encouraged to develop their full potentials.

Our Goal

FAYDI'S long term goal is to be a major partner to the governments of the respective countries in the development of their nation. FAYDI therefore will not only train people to acquire skills, but will go a step further to create a firm for the interest groups trained to be self sustaining.

Our Strategic Objectives

Our Strategic Objectives include:
To produce leaders who are sufficiently open-minded and farsighted to be able to take the leadership of our nation Ghana and the African continent, and provide the necessary facilities for the supplying of any housing, health, recreation, economics, social and other needs whenever it is brought to their attention.
To supplement and strengthen the home, the church, the school, and the municipality in their relation to the social, recreation, education, moral, and spiritual life of the community.

To contribute to the alleviation of poverty and unemployment, and also to increase sanitation through providing access to formal education and skills training.
To organize classes in cooking for girls, boys and girls scouts, story hour, a young women’s and men’s community club, with debates and classes in parliamentary laws. And to stimulate in the community a program of activities for the welfare and uplifting of boys and girls life in all that stands for the highest manhood and womanhood.
To educate and train young men and women who are patriotic, faithful and loyal to God first, and to mother Ghana and the African continent at large to stop the brain drain associated with Africa.
To seek to include in it’s program, such practical steps towards eliminating the cause of evil and not be content with alleviating the results of evil.

To strengthen the capacities of primary health care facilities in community health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, counseling and testing.
To promote structures, systems and processes that lead to the equitable distribution of resources for accelerated development in the rural areas.

To strengthen the capacities of community-based organizations and the civil society in peace building, conflict resolution and development cooperation.

To source and share knowledge and know-how in the field of youth and rural development, with the major aims of informing and influencing public policies and local practice.

Our Program

To achieve our mission and objectives, FAYDI adopts a collaborative approach, engaging all levels of society, allowing her to learn and grow through experience while making careful use of available resources.

Below are details of our specific programs and activities:

a.)Improved Community Health Care Services (ICHCS)
Goal:
The goal of this program is to ensure the delivery of affordable and qualitative health care services to young people, children and women in the rural areas.
Strategies:
•Establish Multi-purpose Clinics for the treatment of women and children’s diseases in the rural areas.
•Provide family planning and sexual/reproductive health services to youths and women.
•Provide free health care services to children and women from poor families.
•Build the capacities of traditional birth attendants and health officers at the primary health centers in handling emergencies and pregnancy related complications.
•Establish and sponsor a network of health volunteers and care givers.

b.)Care for the Poor, Needy and Underprivileged Persons (CPNUP)
Goal:
The ultimate goal of this program is to meet the needs of the poor and the underprivileged by providing them with food items, clothing, shelter, education etc.
Strategies:
•Source for and donate food items and clothing to the poor.
•Raise fund for the construction of homes for indigent families
•Provide free medical services to beneficiaries of this scheme
•Recruit volunteer care givers for these services and more.

c.) Educational Empowerment Program (EEP)
Goal:
The goal of this program is to promote, support and mobilize resources for the empowerment of young people for life through formal education.
Strategies:

•Award full and partial post-primary school and university scholarships to children from poor families.
•Provide free computer training services at our Multi-purpose Skills Development Centers.
•Provide career counseling for teenagers and graduates of post-primary schools intending to enter high schools and universities.
•Donate books, computers and other teaching/learning aids to benefiting primary and post-primary schools
•Assist relevant government agencies and institutions in curriculum development and in teacher training

d.) HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (HAPP)
Goal:
To aggressively reduce the incidences of new HIV and sexually transmitted infections among young people.
Strategies:
•Develop and sponsor series of HIV/AIDS testing campaigns to ensure early detection, care and treatment of new infections.
•Engage all levels of the African society in community advocacy against stigmatization of persons living with HIV/AIDS.
•Enhance the capacities of government-owned health centers in HIV/AIDS counseling, testing and treatment.
•Establish multi-purpose HIV/AIDS Resource centers across Africa.
•Establish and sponsor school-based HIV/AIDS program and Awareness clubs.
•Coordinate the observance of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, the World AIDS Day and other such HIV Awareness events in Africa.

e.) Sustainable Poverty Reduction Project (SPRP)
Goal:
To harness the abundant natural resources in Africa for poverty reduction and sustainable rural development.
Strategies:
•Mobilize financial and non-financial resources for poverty reduction initiatives in the rural areas.
•Promote improved agricultural technologies that enhance increased productivity and food security among rural farmers.
•Establish Multi-purpose Skills Development Centers with Tele-centers and rural libraries in selected communities.
•Initiate and support other program for job creation and economic empowerment of women and young people in the rural areas.
•Promote the use of ICT in development cooperation, sustainable development and poverty reduction
•Support natural resources and environmental management interventions, including adoption of sustainable energy alternatives

f.) Peace building and Conflict Resolution Project (PCRP)
Goal:
To promote the use of dialogue, non-violence and alternative dispute resolution processes for building peace in Africa.

Strategies:
•Organize sensitization meetings, group discussions and workshops on Strategic non-violence, conflict prevention and alternative dispute resolution processes.
•Build the capacities of youths and women groups in preventive peace building and conflict resolution in their respective communities
•Strengthen the capacities of media practitioners and journalists in preventive peace building and development cooperation.
•Prioritize early warning and early response mechanisms for humanitarian and political crises.

FAYDI’S PROPOSED PROJECTS

YOUTH SPONSORSHIP PROJECT (YSP)
There is the rising social phenomenon of many young people selling on the streets of major cities and towns in Ghana due to poverty, and rural urban migration. Many needy but brilliant youth are unable to pursue further education because their parents and guardians cannot afford fees and other requirements. Those who undergo apprenticeship are unable to complete due to financial constraints. To help address the problem, FAYDI will help underprivileged youth to acquire vocational skills in carpentry, masonry, catering, dressmaking, weaving, among others. FAYDI will go further to provide an industry for such individuals in their area of specialization. This industries will automatically become an arm of FAYDI, in order to keep both the industry and FAYDI self sustaining. This is to help contribute to the transformation development of all towards fullness of life with dignity, justice, peace and hope.

 

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (ADP)
Farmers will be supported to undertake a variety of initiatives in food security. These will include production of crops vegetables, fruits, cereals, tubers and legumes. Aquaculture, animal husbandry supported with veterinary services; mushroom production, beekeeping and honey production will also be undertaking. Education and training will be giving to farmers toward this end. These Beneficiaries who are farmers will be assisted to access strategic national and international target markets. Linkage will be developed between farmers and the target markets so that farmers’ produce can satisfy global market standards to enable them to sell at the best price possible. Through such support, farmers can expand their farms and get more profit from the existing market to increase household incomes, and support their children’s educational and health needs.

FAYDI’S ADMINISTRATION

ADMINISTRATIVELY FAYDI will have executives at the various levels being it at the national, regional, district, town and village, with each reporting to the immediate quarters.Leaders will be given the necessary and requisite skills needed to discharge their their administrative duties effectively and efficiently to the realization of the foundations mission.To this end conferences, serminars, training, and workshops will be organizes forthe leaders to boost their administrative and leadership skills.
To meet the need of future expansion in the administrative work, sellected persons will be sponsored to be trained as accountants, administrators, marketing managers, human resource managers, public relation officers etc. to fill very sensitive positions in its administration.

The New Africa

The Africa that exists today, as well as the one we are struggling to build is not the old Africa, but a new, emergent, revolutionary society. A new society in which a new harmony, a new cohesiveness, a new African personality and a new dignity is forced and tempered out of the crisis and schizophrenia it face.

FAYDI recognizes that African people born and/or living in over 113 countries are one people, with one identity, one destiny. And this indicates that the objective above, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere.

FAYDI is therefore organizing and recruiting from the African Intelligential, including African students, in order for them to serve their proper role as the "shock troops", the "spark" of the African Revolution of excellence.

FAYDI’S PASSION

Foundation for Africans Youth Development International (FAYDI) Passion is to champion African's Excellence "NOW". FAYDI by this calls the attention of Africans and for that matter Ghanaians to the urgency of our time and why we cannot continue life and business as usual. FAYDI is striking a certain note of urgency that seems to be lacking in the nations vision. FAYDI wants to be a leader in this direction, and therefore striking the right note, for unless we realize the urgency of our time, we shall do more of the same. And this will affect us so much as a nation and as a continent. The temporal adverb NOW added to the nations vision, has the idea that' if the intended action is not carried out right away, something terrible, tragic, ominous, will happen to our continent. If we delay, if we tarry in doing what we are suppose to do, some mischief will occur. FAYDI has therefore design this not only to highlight the urgency of our time, but also to point a way forward.

FAYDI’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AFRICA’S GREATEST CHALLENGE

FAYDI acknowledges that, Africa is facing economic, political, military, educational, social, religious, and moral problems such as political instability, wars, corruption, injustice, unemployment, poverty, starvation, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, aids pandemic, child labor, drug abuse and armed robbery in an unprecedented scale. This problems faced are of such a magnitude that they can no longer be ignored. Indeed, its menace is seriously and dangerously threatening the very existence of our continent. Its wave is sweeping through the continent in a terrifying manner and with terrific frequency. Our newspapers, in screaming headlines coupled with our television with its top stories, report almost daily incidence of this nature here and there all over the continent. Lives are no safer. There is a general feeling of insecurity all around. This is why the issue demands our serious and urgent attention.

FAYDI’S WAY FORWARD

Instead of merely waiting until some community force of a degrading or negative nature has produced a situation affecting the children, the youth, and adults of our continent, FAYDI will seek to understand social diagnosis sufficient to strike at the roots of such forces as "Streams of community influence need to be purified at their fountain head". FAYDI therefore sees the school as one of the major means to bring about a change in the African continent. The school is a major agent of power that touches the life of the entire society, since it reaches its children during their most impressionable age. As such it can be a major instigator of insight into social problems and a primary agitator for social change. FAYDI seek to use education to awakens the student's consciousness to social problems and engage them actively in working for a solution. Social consciousness may be awakened if students are encouraged to question the status quo and to investigate controversial issues in religion, society, economics, politics, and education. Critical investigation and discussion would help the students see the injustices and non functionality of many aspect of the present system and would help them develop alternative to conventional wisdom. This FAYDI hope to achieve by liaison with the Ministry of Education together with the various Junior and Senior High Schools and the Tertiary institutions authorities to have branches in their campuses. Periodically conferences, workshops, seminars, and training will be organized for the various interest groups and stakeholders in the field of education, namely the Ghana Education Service, teachers and lecturers, students and all who are interested in education.

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