Environmental Awareness
Environmental Awareness is a central focus area. We believe healthy communities depend on healthy environments from clean water and functioning forests to safe waste management and resilient coastal zones. Our work aims to increase local knowledge, promote practical conservation actions, and connect youth with the skills and partnerships needed to protect Liberia’s natural resources.
Impact
Impact
- Community clean-ups & waste awareness: We mobilize youth clubs and local partners to run clean-up activities and public education that tackle plastic pollution and unsafe waste practices reinforcing national efforts such as World Environment Day campaigns that emphasize the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
- Tree-planting & ecosystem resilience: Through school and community initiatives, we promote tree planting, mangrove protection, and coastal resilience measures that help communities adapt to climate impacts while restoring local biodiversity. These activities sit alongside broader national and NGO tree-planting efforts across Liberia.
- Climate and coastal resilience training: YARD-Liberia participates in resilience workshops and knowledge exchanges that build community capacity to respond to coastal risks and environmental change, linking young leaders with technical guidance and multi-stakeholder networks.
- Education + digital tools for advocacy: We combine environmental education with our ICT and leadership programs so youth can document local issues (e.g., pollution, deforestation), share evidence, and advocate for enforcement and sustainable practices.
- Local mobilization: Mobilized youth and community groups for clean-ups, awareness drives, and school-based environmental clubs that put conservation into everyday practice in Margibi and neighboring communities.
- Support for resilience initiatives: Contributed representatives and youth voices to resilience workshops that feed into county-level strategies for coastal and community adaptation.
- Amplifying national priorities: By linking local action to national campaigns (for example, World Environment Day and EPA strategic planning), YARD-Liberia helps translate high-level environmental goals into community projects that protect livelihoods and natural assets.
- Awareness of forest and watershed threats: Our programming reflects the urgent local context including high rates of tree-cover loss in Margibi County and focuses on practical responses youth can lead or support.
