Publications

Securing Healthy Lives and Livelihoods for young people in Liberia

From 2014 to 2017, Y Care International and the Young Men’s Christian Association of Liberia have worked with vulnerable young women and men to improve their skills, assets and voice.
Together we have increased access to work and tackled the barriers to healthcare and participation for young people. 

Read more about our collaboration with  the Young Men’s Christian Association of Liberia and how we have helped to inspire change in the lives of almost one thousand young men and women. 

Young women’s resilience to floods in Bangladesh

There is an urgent need to examine vulnerable people’s resilience to disasters. This is particularly important for developing countries prone to natural hazards like Bangladesh who have experienced cyclones, tidal surges, floods, earthquakes and droughts. Currently, very little is known about the resilience of vulnerable young people, especially women. This student-led study aims to address […]

Collecting Youth Voices for Enterprise Choices Toolkit

In 2017, as part of our International Citizen Service, young people from the UK and Sierra Leone and Liberia worked together as volunteer researchers. Our toolkit provides information, session plans and resources to train young people so that they understand key components of enterprise programming and to collect and analyse information from peers.

Collecting Youth Voices for Enterprise Choices: Sierra Leone

In 2017, as part of our International Citizen Service, young people from the UK and Sierra Leone undertook youth-led research on education and work. Over a six week period the young people will reach out to young people in areas affected by Ebola using methods such as interviews, focus groups, case study collection and surveys. […]

Collecting Youth Voices for Enterprise Choices: Liberia

In 2017, as part of our International Citizen Service, young people from the UK and Liberia undertook youth-led research on education and work. Over a six week period the young people reached out to young people in areas affected by Ebola using methods such as interviews, focus groups, case study collection and surveys. This report […]

Annual Report & Accounts 2016/17

Between 2016 and 2017, Y Care International supported 3,000 young people to get jobs or start and develop their own businesses. We also equipped 100,000 young people with knowledge to reduce the detrimental impacts of health, justice and disaster shocks.