YUVA - Youth United in Voluntary Action

About us

Founded in 2015, YUVA (Youth United in Voluntary Action) started as a group of enthusiastic individuals, and today it has mobilised thousands of young people with the simple aim of creating a better future for the children and youth of Mauritius. At the heart of YUVA’s duty lies the conviction that the collective destinies of the human race are bound together.
YUVA promotes youth activism, which results in an extraordinary potential to transform communities, and it carries important benefits to those who participate—especially for the low-income youth, youth of colour, and other young people who have been historically marginalised from civic life.

Vision:
Ensuring quality education, good health, empowerment and employment for young people through our programmes to break the cycle of poverty and ensure a bright future for children and young people of Mauritius.

Programmes:
• Health: Our health programmes focus on two essential things: Developing healthy habits; Connecting kids and young people with services when they need help.
• Education: Education doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all solution. Your support is invested in helping kids and young people complete school using a wide range of tools to make it happen: providing school fees, uniforms, supplies, tutoring and scholarships.
• Empowerment: Through empowerment programmes that build leadership, teamwork and confidence. YUVA has launched a speciality school called the YUVA Academy to sustain the empowerment cause. There exist three departments under the YUVA Academy: YUVA School of Leadership; YUVA School of Entrepreneurship; YUVA School of Humanities
• Employment: Mock interviews, résumé writing, connecting with jobs, earning scholarships for university or vocational training — YUVA teens are focused on developing workplace and technical skills to help them change their lives for good.

Krishna Athal is the Executive Director at YUVA (Youth United in Voluntary Action).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.