Country - Tunisia

Young Leaders Entrepreneurs (YLE) is an organization based in Tunisia that works with the passion and energy of youth to create long-lasting, positive change, and sustainable development in marginalized communities. YLE coaches young Tunisians in leadership and entrepreneurial skills in schools and colleges. The organization works to motivate aspiring young Tunisian leaders and empower them by developing their abilities and potential through workshops, exhibitions, and entrepreneurial initiatives.

YLE focuses on the idea of “equitable wellbeing” to improve the quality of life and the situation of marginalized communities. YLE’s work also seeks to involve youth in the democratic transition process and bring together young people from across Tunisia to meet, exchange knowledge and ideas, and broaden their professional networks. YLE joined ICAN’s She Builds Peace campaign in 2020.

Core Areas of Work:

  • Economic Empowerment
  • Stregnthening democratic institutions
  • Sustainable development

It’s important to have trust in youth and women in the peacebuilding process and bring the local context to light by shifting the paradigm and empowering such constituents and stakeholders. We often encounter dismissal of youth or women’s voices because we think of them as victims. It is true that they are the first to be affected in war and conflict zones but we should see them as well as change makers and drivers of change.

– Ahlem Nasraoui Founder, Young Leaders Entrepreneurs (YLE)

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