Youth Health and Life Skills Development Initiative (YHLDI)
About YHLDI Organization
Youth Health and Life Skills Development Initiative (YHLDI) is a non-governmental organization committed to mentoring and empowering adolescents and young people with life skills and the provision of comprehensive essential support to promote both personal and national development. This organization was conceived out of the need to equip adolescents and young people with the relevant knowledge and skills required as future leaders despite being exposed to physiological and societal vulnerabilities.
Our Mission
To build a generation of healthy adolescents and young people well-equipped with useful and relevant knowledge and skills to impact their world through training, counseling, mentorship, and provision of health services with the spirit of excellence and high sense of confidentiality.
Our Vision
To be a world-class youth-friendly organization responsible for building adolescents and young people for purposeful impact
Objectives
- To improve the health of youths by providing up-to-date information about their well being for informed decision-making.
- To provide virtual promotive and preventive youth-friendly health services
- To contribute to existing knowledge of adolescents and young people through research and other publications
Our Core Values
Y – Young People-Centred
H – Hard Work
L – Leadership by Example
D – Dedication
I – Integrity
Our Strategies
- Outreach services to schools
- Establishment of an institution /academy/resource center where integrated services such as promotive and preventive health services for adolescents, training of parents, teachers, and adolescents, and rehabilitative services. Also, the vocational skill acquisition center will be part of the package.
- Publication of books, research papers, and other relevant materials
- Creation of awareness on all social media platforms.
- Use of Artificial Intelligence platforms such as FAQs, auto-question answering system for very troubled adolescents
- Consultancy services for different organizations supporting adolescent and young people development