Applications with letter of motivation, detailed CV and filled Application Form (see below) shall be sent electrically and in English Language to the following address:
All applications are notified after receiving the application. The selection process includes a face-to-face interview with either the project management in Lower Allen Town or the overseas coordination group in Vienna/Austria.
Please make sure to include the following information in the application:
a. Proposed period of service
b. Objective of service with SFYDP
c. Ideas and possible own contribution to the development of the project
d. Working hours per week
e. Necessary preparations such as tools and materials to be undertaken by the volunteer
Philosophy
The philosophy of this project is to improve the lives of the marginalized and deprived youth by providing free education in different technical and vocational skills. This training shall enable the students to upkeep themselves and additionally help to reconstruct the struggling economic and social conditions.
Furthermore the SFYDP strives to develop and maintain the infrastructures in rural and remote areas through introducing alternative 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. Sensitization and the implementation of community based care-taking committees shall guarantee proper handling and for this reason the best possible life duration.
Since 1993 the SFYDP has established various programmes successfully and became known for the remarkable impacts in youth training and rural development all over the country. Its membership is open to all willing and desirous persons wishing to assist on these efforts.
Junior Secondary School
In 2008 the Safer Future Youth Development Project opened its own Junior Secondary School to enrich the education facilities in Allen Town.
Education & Training
Under the consideration of local knowledge the Safer Future Youth Development Project tries to reduce the high youth unemployment through training in life skills referring to the claims of every day life in Sierra Leone. It also aims at providing improved, quality and reasonable academic Education at secondary level. Additionally premium is given to young people who are encouraged and motivated to establish themselves in their origin areas to prevent the rural provinces from brain drain and dying out.
Please click on the links on the left side to find out more about our educational and training programmes.
Competence Centre for Renewable Energies (CCRE)
As one suffers an insufficient and unreliable energy supply as well as a growing dependency on fossil energy resources in Sierra Leone, an alternative way to provide energy, a main key in development is necessary.
Therefore Safer Future with the support of the Austrian government is about to implement a so called “Competence Centre for Renewable Energies”, a kind of research and education centre to identify and develop locally adopted applications of renewable energy sources to realize an independent, decentralised and clean energy supply.
The main output of this innovative project is 10 female and 10 male technicians, educated in the application and dissemination of such technologies including Solar Photovoltaic and Biomass/Biogas. The 9 months training which is based on the former “Rural Electronics Workshop (REW)” in Nyangba Town, Koya Rural District, will start in September 2007.
Actually Safer Future is enlarging the training centre at Nyangba Town in constructing additional student and staff dormitories (see pictures below). Beside this activity the teaching staff has already begun researches in the field of Biomass/Biogas and started a test biogas – tank fed with pig waste (see pictures below).
Information & Criteria
Volunteers at the Safer Future Youth Development Project
The SFYDP began its voluntary service program as early as 1993. Local but also international volunteers are welcome to serve for a period of at least 3 monthes with the prooject.
Safer Future is also liable to host Alternative Service Volunteers from Austria (Auslandsdienst als Ersatz fuer Zivildienst) under a programme implemented by the Frastanz Parish (Pfarre Frastanz)
Who can serve as a volunteer:
Male and Female volunteers can apply for a voluntary service on the following terms
Completion of a technical education or university course
Preferred subjects: Information Technology, Internedia; Agriculture; Renewable Energy/Solar, etc; Biology; Engineering; etc.
Experience with international cooperation and knowledge about developmental programmes such as water/sanitation, social work, health, advocacy, project management, etc are highly desirable.
Administrative/Management skills
Willingness to live under simple conditions and make sacrifices.
What is expected from a volunteer at SFYDP
To comply with all agreements
To give a written monthly report to the Administrative service, SFYDP Management: (Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Administrative Officer, Project Office) ant the Overseas Coordinator. The report shall comprise of infornation about the volunteer's own activities undertaken: (Result: achievements, obstacles or failures), observations and plans for the forth coming month.
To be flexible a nd adaptable to changing work situation.
To be proactive and complimentary
Accommondation and Feeding:
Accommondation and feeding is offered by SFYDP customary to the situation of Sierra Leone
Alternative Service volunteers receive an additional monetary token by Frastanz Parish.
Transportation and Insurance:
SFYDP is not in the position to cater for travel and insurance cost for the volunteers. Alternative service volunteers receive reimbursement of their costs for travel and medication after completion of service, other volunteers have to care for own insurance and travel costs.
Insurance covering medication costs in Sierra Leone as well as emergency evacuation costs are compulsory for all international volunteers.
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