Youth and Women Empowerment

AERD approach to youths and women is to support the young people that are facing the most hardships and lack of belonging with the society. Youth constitute a big chunk in South Sudan, yet it remains the most subjugated and marginalized in South Sudanese society. The difficult circumstances that youths face because of limited opportunities for education and training, viable employment and health and social services. In addition, the unprecedented rate of rural-urban migration by youths leads to continue growth of incidence of substance abuse and juvenile delinquency is deteriorating the chance of South Sudan to achieved the vision 2040.  Our organization focus to works closely with the most underprivileged youth to provide them with learning center, gender resource centre, career guidance, health check-up, environmental camps and vocational skills that meets the current demands of the markets. AERD believes that youths play a critical role in conservation of biodiversity, community resilience and social cohesion efforts.