Projects

Education for all Dreams is a project formed within MYCRO programs to help salvage the educational challenge in all serving countries in Africa. We believe that if children, youth, and women should attain their dreams and aspirations, Education must be paramount. With greater efforts by the United Nations and other key sectors to improve the sector, there are still countless challenges facing its achievement.

Child surgical support: As part of the MYCRO Health Network, we are pleased to be able to make Hawanatu’s life meaningful. During our sustainable project – called the livelihood program in Mamaka in 2011, the MYCRO team met Hawanatu whose life was in a dorm, left rejected by her very parents and community members who claim she is witchcraft and that she is responsible for the death of many of their family members. She was left isolated and neglected.

Violence prevention during elections – Peace Campaign – (Stand for Peace): MYCRO youth department works with Universities and schools in creating violence-free programs that help to nurture young people’s minds on the importance of peace but not violence. This practice helps to prevent war and violence before, during, and after elections. In 2012, MYCRO and Thou Shall Eat Foundation partnered and conducted a nationwide peace campaign.

It is clear that Child Rights are fundamental freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings below the age of 18. MYCRO strongly believes that these rights apply to every child, irrespective of the child’s background, parent’s / legal guardian’s race, color, sex, creed, or another status. The importance of this is the equality of opportunity.  Girls should be given the same opportunities as boys. Children all over the world must be/should have the same human rights and should be given the same chance to enjoy an adequate standard of living.

Poor water and sanitation threaten the lives of many African communities and this affects children and women the most.  “Water and Sanitation is a cornerstone of public health,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan. “Improved sanitation contributes enormously to human health and well-being, especially for girls and women. We know that simple, achievable interventions can reduce the risk of contracting the diarrheal disease by a third”. Millions of children, women, and youth in Africa have never accessed a prepared build toilet or safe water.

IMPACT WOMEN INITIATIVE – A segment of MYCRO organization that supports vulnerable women. Impact Women empowered young and aged women to become responsible and productive citizens through our Empowerment programs like Bead Making, soap-making, health talk, adult education, and business development skills. The unit is established to help redress the alarming issues affecting women in Africa – the issue of rape, sexual assault and abuse, prostitution, etc. are at the highest level within the society because women are not skilled to champion their own affairs.

When Covid-19 started from China to the world, the world Health organization (WHO) quickly introduce preventive measures to save lives. In Sierra Leone, Veronica Bucket was made public as one of the tools used to prevent cross-contamination. With time, we began to realize that this prevention tool doesn’t properly prevent.

Realizing the importance of Peace and national development as one of the steps to attain the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG’s) on Peace and Security, the Movement for youth and Children’s Rights Organization (MYCRO) thought it fit to establish the youth and the Police (YTP project) to help build the Sierra Leone we want, to create a deeper connection within communities and the Police force for peace and development.

The MYCRO Garden of Hope Training Centre in Waterloo, Western Area Rural District, Sierra Leone is a Youth development dropping Centre that trains and empowering young people to become self-reliant and self-sustainable. We strive to contribute to changing the lives of young people in Sierra Leone and across Africa. Demographic segregation of the African population indicates that youths form the largest segment of the population in Africa.

As part of our organization’s mandate, we work to support children whose lives faced life-threatening challenges. In waterloo town, Western Area Rural District, we came across the Late Madam Margaret Vandy, who presented us a story about Richmond. She went to a village called Ribbin in Moyamba district to visit a friend, whiles in this village; she thought of walking down the river, whiles on her way, she had a voice of a child in the bush.

MYCRO is a youth and child right synergy that advocate for children’s right and youth development/empowerment. We identify the most vulnerable and deprived children, also through our GEM and community identification process, and provide them the platform to share their stories and foster hope through education and medical support and empower young people to become self-reliant and self-sustainable.