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About Foundation for Youth Initiative

Foundation for Youth Initiative is a non governmental organisation formed in South Sudan in 2011. The mission is to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship. The Foundation empowers youths and marginalised individuals to generate prosperity through entrepreneurship, in turn, build assets, create jobs, generate income, and established sustainable livelihoods. The Foundation seeks participatory approach in bringing a solutions to poverty. This approach pool synergies and streamlines resources mobilized to empower youth, women, farmers and marginalized people to create innovative social enterprises and scalable startups. The Foundation works with government institutions, development partners and private sector to support our mission. We focus on enterprises which invest in sectors of agriculture, renewable energy, fishery, livestock, social finance, climate change and digital media. These sectors hold significant prospects benefiting local communities and fostering sustained development of the country. South Sudan is a low-income country in East Africa. More than 82% of its population lives under the poverty line of $1.9 per day. Armed conflict, natural disasters, and COVID-19 pandemic have increasingly disrupted the means of livelihood. National Unemployment rate stands at 14 percent, while youth unemployment is at 50%. Our mission is to reverse the above-mentioned situation through the entrepreneurship. The gaol is to raise the standards of living for the underprivileged youth, women, farmers, refugees, and internally displaced people.