Buildings:

The Safer Future Youth Training Centre is located on a 0.2 acre land in Lower Allen Town, near Freetown. In the 4 buildings the office of the NGO and as well the vocational institute with its 5 departments resident. An additional building, which will host the computer centre and a show room in the very soon future, is currently under construction.

 

   

Vehicles:

• Extend solar electrification of our rural communities and boarding home schools without clean power supply
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  Extend free training of life skills programmes in remote parts of the country 
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  Improve the water and sanitation systems in rural schools and communities by establishing rainwater harvesting tanks; construct, repair and maintain water wells and erect proper toilet facilities
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  Provision of start-up kits to successful trainees from the vocational institute as well as from the mobile skills programmes to ensure self-reliance and sustainability
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  Train more solar technicians to enhance competency, efficiency and create competition for effective services
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  Support other viable projects in the field of agriculture and health which are contributing to the development of the country.
  

The Safer Future Youth Development Project is a registered non-profit, non-governmental, interdenominational, local organisation geared towards improving the lives of young people. The SFYDP was formed due to the poor quality of  living standards that even led to a decade long war. The ideology of this Project is to improve the lives of marginalised and deprived youths by providing free education in different technical and vocational skills. This training enables students to provide for themselves, while helping to reconstruct the poor economy and social conditions. Furthermore, the SFYDP strives to develop and maintain infrastructure in rural and remote areas by introducing alternate energy sources, mainly solar energy, providing life-skills training in secluded communities and improving the water situation by implementing rainwater harvesting systems and repairing water wells. To ensure the sustainability of the different projects, community integration and sensitisation are a key component to the  success of SFYDP. Since 1993, the SFYDP has successfully established various programmes and became well-known for the widespread impacts on youth training and rural development.

  The SFYDP is a legally registered youth-serving organisation with the Ministry of Youths and Sports, as well as with the  Department of Education, Science and Technology. It is also a member of the Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (SLANGO) and Sierra Leone Farmers.

Its membership is open to any individual or group wishing to assist in the empowerment of young people in rural communities or be trained with life-skills for self reliance, sustainability and dependability.

Safer Future Youth Development Project implemented a “Mobile Life Skills Training Unit” with the support of the local government of Vorarlberg(Austria) in 2002/03.

The aim is to develop rural communities by extending life skills training programmes to areas which have no opportunity to obtain  any technical or vocational education.

This programme is very successful as it is able to contribute in the re-integration and training of war affected youth and other disadvantaged young people.

SFYDP have found many  organisations have previously refused to extend their actions in very remote and rural communities due to bad roads, long distances, cost and many other constraints involved involved in such initiatives. Although inroads are being made into some areas in the country, the largest share of the country continues to suffer from high levels of illiteracy and unemployments.

With the help of the local project staff, over 120 rural people have benefited directly from the mobile life skills programme, enable them to improve upon their day to day lives through new  knowledge and skills.

A total of 6 rural communities in Sierra Leone significantly affected  by war took part in the programme. The goal was to establish education activities in poor rural areas and create new opportunities and facilities for learning.

Workshops on different topics were offered, such as community formation, financial management, family life education, HIV/AIDS education and conflict management. Likewise offered was training in Gara Tye dye and Soap production due to the natural abundance of palm oil and high costs for soap. the production of these two goods has created an income opportunity for the villagers who are traditionally farmers.

The programme was divided into five units and after completion of the training, a tool kit for soap production was given to each working group to guarantee an immediate start and ensure sustainability and self employment.

“Development groups” were formed within the community to manage the soap business and to guarantee  proper administration and evaluation of activities.

 
Funds raised from production of soap and dye help communities to meet different financial burdens such as school fees, medical treatment, and maintenance of farmland.

Alternative energy sources are gaining more and more popularity around the world. Sierra Leone as a developing country have to change and focus on new clean energy sources.