Youth Empowerment and Leadership Initiative, YELI, was registered under the national law as a non-profit organization, in 2015. It is a youth led-initiative that empowers youth organizations and young people from different walk of life, on issues that affect their lives. It provides opportunities for young people to explore different skills and develop their leadership potential through trainings, workshops and community developmental programs.

YELI also believes that well-equipped and empowered youth with adequate capacities and competences can create a peaceful and prosperous future for the communities and the nation. Our organization’s approach is to mostly invest in youth who constitute an active force of the country, in order to contribute in building positive change and sustainable development for all social categories. With well-equipped and empowered youth organizations and young people, we will create new generations of families capable to promote human rights and peace education for their children from their early ages.

YELI is constituted by its founders and governing board members and skilled youths who came together with an aim to empower young people and youth organizations in order to reach out families and communities. In addition,

YELI intervene straight with families and communities for the purpose of creating a better community for all without letting anyone behind. Moreover, the partnership approach that links our organization to local and international institutions offers opportunities to enhance YELI’s potentials to better serve vulnerable youths, families and communities.

1) YELI is a nonprofit youth led-initiative that empowers young people; on issues that affect their lives. We provide opportunities for young people to explore different leadership skills and develop their leadership potential through trainings and workshops.

2) We believe that talented youth can create a peaceful and prosperous future for our country.
We work with talented youth from all fields of study and with different ambitions, empowering them to be catalysts for positive change.

3) We empower young people in Burundi by preparing them to be leaders because the ultimate solutions to Burundi's problems will come from the Burundian people. The result of our program is a cohort of skilled sparking true development across Burundi.