Our
Vision
Youth: To provide empowering volunteer opportunities to youth
through experiential learning while engaging in participatory community
development initiatives and cultivating positive, cross-cultural relationships.
In turn, we provide youth with first hand education in social justice and
exemplary leadership skills.
Communities: To cultivate relationships with communities and work in
solidarity to create and sustain long-term transformational projects.
Projects: To help build and sustain long-term, participatory
community development initiatives driven by a partnership between American and
African youth and community partners (locally, nationally and internationally).
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Our
Values
Faith: We express our faith through relationship-based
spirituality, believing that our relationships are the true foundations of
spiritual life.
Community: We encourage the creation of communities, both locally and
internationally, that model compassion and understanding. We value long-term
relationships with communities, and the use of a holistic approach
(encompassing physical, mental, spiritual and emotional aspects of people and
issues) to encourage reconciliation and social justice around the world.
Justice: We seek to understand the various forms of oppression and
injustices in our world by listening to the personal testimonies of those who
have experienced them. We aim to breakdown power imbalances, stereotypes and
prejudices, while restoring social justice through education, action and
building new equitable relationships.
Others:
Equity, advocacy, respect, compassion, love, reconciliation, forgiveness, acceptance, trust.
Equity, advocacy, respect, compassion, love, reconciliation, forgiveness, acceptance, trust.
Our
Partners
2AYA works in solidarity with people
and communities all over the world. Currently we are partnered with communities
and organizations in 24 countries across Africa and the Americas.
