YouSustain – Youth Collaboration for Sustainable African Futures is an international initiative that brings together young people and youth-led organisations from Africa and Europe to learn, collaborate, and take action on some of the world’s most pressing challenges. These include climate justice, migration justice, social inequality, and the long-term impacts of colonial legacies.
YouSustain is a cross-regional youth collaboration project engaging young people aged 22–30 from Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. The project creates meaningful opportunities for youth to exchange ideas, build leadership capacity, and co-create solutions that respond to shared global challenges from local and lived perspectives.
At its core, YouSustain believes that young people are drivers of change.
The Creative Kids Zone Initiative (TCKZone) is proud to be part of this powerful international consortium. Our participation aligns strongly with our mission to empower young people with skills, voice, and agency to influence positive change in their communities.
Through YouSustain, TCKZone contributes to advancing:
Youth leadership
Climate justice
Migration justice
Creative and decolonial approaches to advocacy
This partnership reinforces our commitment to ensuring African youth are not only included in global conversations but are actively shaping them.
“At TCKZone, we believe in empowering young people and building solutions that impact their communities.”
YouSustain is powered by a diverse and committed network of institutions and youth organisations across Africa and Europe, including:
Farafina Institute
Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (Germany)
University of Palermo (Italy)
Centro Diaconale (Italy)
Footprints for Change
Clever Minds of Refugees
Connecting Communities
Associação Ilha de Moçambique (Mozambique)
Tuboreshe Pamoja (Kenya)
Health Vision Agency (Uganda)
University of Zambia (Zambia)
This strong partnership ensures a rich exchange of knowledge, culture, and lived experience across regions.
Through youth exchanges, creative expression, and advocacy, YouSustain empowers young people to:
1. Strengthen Youth Leadership and Capacity
Participants engage in youth exchanges across Africa and Europe, building leadership skills, cross-cultural understanding, and collaborative problem-solving abilities.
2. Foster Critical Dialogue
The project creates safe and reflective spaces for honest conversations on migration, climate justice, inequality, and colonial legacies, allowing youth to challenge dominant narratives and propose alternative futures.
3. Use Creativity as Advocacy
Theatre and photography are used as powerful tools for decolonial storytelling, enabling young people to tell their own stories, amplify marginalised voices, and advocate for systemic change.
4. Build Cross-Regional Networks
YouSustain strengthens long-term networks between youth organisations, supporting inclusive governance, collaboration, and youth-led policy influence across borders.
What sets YouSustain apart is its participatory and decolonial framework. Rather than imposing solutions, the project centres youth voices, lived experiences, and local realities. This approach ensures that outcomes are relevant, inclusive, and sustainable.
By supporting youth-led organisations, YouSustain helps position young people as influential actors in shaping fairer social, economic, and environmental systems across Africa and Europe.
The YouSustain project is co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, reflecting a strong commitment to international youth cooperation, learning mobility, and social inclusion.
As the project unfolds, TCKZone will be sharing updates, stories, and opportunities for engagement.
Stay tuned to learn how you can be part of YouSustain.
Operations Manager at TCKZone
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