development model

AYB-SD promotes learning among poor teens, youth, and women, through continuous trainings that focus on life skills and personal coaching. Unprivileged communities receive specialized and vocational trainings, which provide the needed job skills and knowledge for them to be employed in the private sector. In addition, coaching is an always an integral part of learning, which provides the right orientation for unprivileged communities about the job market, and to better discover themselves. Learning is also integrated into AYB-SD’s programs given to teens, which provides them with the vision for their future, and to make them ready for the job market after the next five years of their lives.

AYB-SD also supports entrepreneurship among unprivileged communities through the Loans Program. The program provides the needed funding as well as technical assistance and coaching for small and micro-entrepreneurs who wish to start their businesses in their own local communities. Click here to learn more about our Loans Program.

AYB-SD provides employment opportunities for unprivileged communities graduating from its various coaching, life skills, specialized, and vocational programs. AYB-SD partners with various private sector companies to place unprivileged communities in various jobs with suitable career paths. Click here to learn more about our Employment Program.

AYB-SD does not aim only at employing unprivileged communities, but ultimately to graduate those unprivileged communities from the circle of poverty. Accordingly, AYB-SD advocates among employers to provide fair wages for unprivileged communities placed, treat them according to labor laws, and call for their rights in fair and respectable treatment.

AYB-SD encourages and supports activism among students in universities. AYB-SD leads the first franchise system in community development, whereby students can lead a community development organization inside their university under the name of AYB-SD. Student organizations under the franchise system receive full support from AYB-SD including capacity building, seed funding, networking, and access to AYB-SD’s various curricula and development models. For more info about our franchise system click here.