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YES, We Care Too is a follow up of the YES, We Care project being implemented in partnership between countries from Europe and East Africa. While through it we aimed on educating young people on social entrepreneurship and empowering them on action in Europe and East Africa, now we focused on providing durable development of the social entrepreneurship initiatives and we expanded our activities in the region of South Africa. YES, We Care Too project’s general aims are in terms of promoting young people’s active engagement in the society, contributing to the quality development of employability and building youth’s life skills, as well as building the capabilities of civil society organizations in the youth field and social entrepreneurship. Via capacity building activities (contact-making seminars, training courses, etc.) the project´s priority was to increase the capacities of the youth organizations from Africa and Europe to embrace socio-political and economic diversity, to increase the potential for sustaining SE ecosystems and empower young people on active citizenship. Looking at the challenges holistically, facing the Forth Industrial Revolution and discussing the work skills of the future, the entrepreneurship has to be understood in the context of engagement and impact on the community, a tool not only for employment, but also for gaining life skills, strengthening one’s social responsibility, and developing empathy. Namely, this is what we wanted to achieve with our project Youth Empowerment through Social Entrepreneurship “We Care, Too”: YES “We Care, Too”, where together with our partners from two continents we have addressed the social entrepreneurship as a tool for self-employability, impact and empowerment. YES, We Care Too was inspired by the work of Mladiinfo in educating and empowering youth on social entrepreneurship, through different perspectives: using digital tools, boosting employability skills or raising awareness on solidarity and social responsibility. Already in the first edition of the project we had created the platform: www.socialinnovators.eu with up to now 66 presented social impact ideas, operating businesses, and relevant players in the social entrepreneurship (SE) ecosystem. Through the project trainings, we provided youngsters with know-how to spot impact ideas as well as to turn their ideas into business. In this second edition, we have continued to develop it further, adding the videos, learning materials and other relevant resources both for young entrepreneurs and youth organizations. YES, We Care Too is the intercontinental partnership building with a network of youth organizations: Young Africa with its branch offices in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia. A network of partners created a stable structure for project implementation and impact outreach, which added to the close partnerships previously developed by the European partners (Mladiinfo has cooperated with Social Impact Award on the first project edition, as well as on several other SE-related projects, it also cooperates with Risky Business on capacity-building KA2 project on mobile learning – mYouth). YES, We Care Too, spotlighted not only the social impact initiatives, but worked on their sustainability also by creating a network and community of young social entrepreneurs. The network has reached know-how on employability topic and youth, as well as stakeholder partnerships. The project was in line with the priorities of Erasmus + programme, EU Youth Strategy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular decent work and economic growth and industry, innovation and infrastructure.
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