YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

Acholi child and Family program initiatives to provide young people with vocational and entrepreneurship skills is driven by the fact that youth form the largest segment of the population in the country. They are always faced with challenges of high rates of school dropout and unemployment due to lack of applicable life skills, limited livelihood opportunities. To address this highlighted challenges. Adolescence represents a critical window of opportunity when young people learn to make independent decisions and form their own attitudes and beliefs. ACFP works to ensure that adolescents, regardless of gender, have access to comprehensive age appropriate skilling process. Our youth’s programs are age- and life-stage tailored, with particular attention to the needs of “very young adolescents” (14- to 24–year-olds) and first-time adolescents and young parents. In addition, we prioritize strengthening health systems to provide integrated health services to adolescents and implement innovative positive youth development approaches that integrate health, education, and economic empowerment