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The Safer Future Youth Development Project was first conceived as a youth initiative project between Sierra Leoneans and Austrians. Leading to the formation of SFYDP were Idriss S. Kamara (Project Manager) and Martin Strele (Overseas Coordinator, Advisor) in order to create opportunities for the large and growing number of deprived and marginalised young people in Sierra Leone. The SFYDP was specifically conceived for those face with unemployment, illiteracy, crime, desperation and depression. The key goals of the Project are to provide free education to the most impoverished youths, thus breaking the cycle of poverty and illiteracy and establishing an opportunity for real and sustainable change within the community. Improving the living conditions of rural inhabitants is another target of the SFYDP, to date this has been achieved primarily through the installation of much needed infrastructure such as water supply and electricity. The success of SFYDP has been due to the many committed volunteers who have dedicated their time, expertise and enthusiasm to the SFYDP, even during the war torn period in Sierra Leone; as a result, the Safer Future Youth Development Project has become a model of success for youth training and education nationwide.  1993: - The foundation of the SFYDP as a youth initiative. - Establishment of the Safer Future Youth Training and Vocational Institute at Lower Allen Town with courses in Tailoring and Dressmaking, Carpentry, Joinery and Baking
1994: -Safer Future acquired a thirty-one acre farm located in Nyangba Town, Koya Rural District (near Waterloo). Its aim is to offer a place for hands-on work for agricultural students of the Vocational Institute and as well to produce and sell the harvested products thus rendering the project a self-sustaining endeavour.The war did not stop the work of SFYDP volunteers, although it was a very difficult period during which the staff and students suffered great hardship.
2000:
-The Safer Future Youth Development Project won the “Regional Commonwealth Youth Service Award” and the “Pan Commonwealth Youth Award”. The prize money was used to construct an additional building in which the administrative office, a computer lab and two other classrooms are located.
-Introduction of a Mobile Skills Training for rural communities with workshops in soap making and Gara Tye in the villages of Konta Line, Moyaebana (both in the Koya Rural District) and Moyaewa (in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District)
2003-2004:
 -Two staff of Safer Future, sponsored by the Sunshine Fellowship Austria, were trained at the Barefoot College in India in Solar Engineering and Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting.
2005:
-The two trained technicians installed solar panelling in 20 houses of a rural community with fixed solar home light systems and solar lanterns. Safer Future constructed two underground rainwater harvesting-tanks, each with a capacity of around 100, 000 litres to serve students and neighbours during the time the of dry season in the Faith-in-Christ Primary School in Allen Town and the Safer Future Vocational Training Institute.
-Members of the SFYDP were trained by Life Water International in water and sanitation, covering the construction of land-dug wells, installation and maintenance of hand pumps and education on hygiene and sanitation.
2006:
-A pilot project of hand pump rehabilitation at the Ahmadiyya Primary School in Malaisoko, Koya Rural District, was realised with the sponsorship of the Blue Planet Run Foundation. -Safer Future started its first “Rural Electronic Workshop” in Nyangba Town at the project owned farm, with a training in Basic Electronics and Solar Engineering, and is the first organization to provide such training nationwide. |
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