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Young Africa
Netherlands roots
Source review: 2026-10-05
Your guide to Young Africa
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Reported work and places
Education; Livelihoods; Children and youth. Reported activity: Zimbabwe; Mozambique; Angola; Zambia; Nigeria.
Its 2025 annual report records vocational and life-skills training, internships and livelihood support through African affiliates, including women’s business training and a training centre opened in Zambia. Graduate employment stories are organization-reported. Targets for 2026 and an applicant’s future business plans are excluded.
Evidence dated 2025-12-31. Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date.
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Who receives your money
- Organization roots
- Netherlands
- Roots and operating base
- Founded in 1998 by Raj A. Joseph and Dorien Beurskens; its first training centre opened in Zimbabwe in 2001. The international foundation has a Zimbabwe headquarters and Netherlands support office, with independently registered African implementing affiliates.
- Reviewed legal entity
- Stichting Young Africa International · Netherlands
- Named recipient
- Stichting Young Africa International · Netherlands
- Giving route
- Official named bank transfer or cheque instructions
Use the official named foundation bank-transfer instructions. The online form also offers one-time, monthly and yearly EUR gifts and a change/cancel link, but no donor data or payment was submitted. General federation giving does not guarantee country restriction; confirm before giving. Dutch tax treatment depends on the donor’s circumstances.
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Country evidence and reporting periods
Country coverage is based on the sources below. Annual reports do not establish operations today. Portfolio tables without country-specific sector evidence appear under All causes only.
Zimbabwe
Vocational and life-skills training and start-up tools supported trainees; the report describes a hairdressing graduate’s livelihood work.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Physical pp4–5, 8–9 and 20–21; 2025 Highlights and Zimbabwe story
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
365-day annual-report window. African affiliates are independent implementing entities, not additional directory entries. Dutch beneficiary and Zimbabwe operational headquarters are distinguished. Self-reported employment rates are not independently audited; future targets and trainee aspirations excluded.
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Vocational culinary training and an industrial internship supported a graduate into paid work.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Physical pp14–15 (printed pp12–13); Mozambique story and 2025 enrolment summary p4
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
365-day annual-report window. African affiliates are independent implementing entities, not additional directory entries. Dutch beneficiary and Zimbabwe operational headquarters are distinguished. Self-reported employment rates are not independently audited; future targets and trainee aspirations excluded.
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Refrigeration and air-conditioning vocational training was delivered through its local centre.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Physical pp12–13 (printed pp10–11); Angola story and enrolment summary p4
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
365-day annual-report window. African affiliates are independent implementing entities, not additional directory entries. Dutch beneficiary and Zimbabwe operational headquarters are distinguished. Self-reported employment rates are not independently audited; future targets and trainee aspirations excluded.
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Training centre opened in September; vocational food-production and life-skills learning are reported.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Physical pp4 and 10–11; Zambia opening and graduate story
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
365-day annual-report window. African affiliates are independent implementing entities, not additional directory entries. Dutch beneficiary and Zimbabwe operational headquarters are distinguished. Self-reported employment rates are not independently audited; future targets and trainee aspirations excluded.
Read this country’s evidence (opens in a new tab)Nigeria
Youth Employability Booster training and internships included women’s vocational skills, with completed graduates reported.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Physical pp4 and 16–17 (printed pp14–15); Nigeria training and completed graduate account
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
365-day annual-report window. African affiliates are independent implementing entities, not additional directory entries. Dutch beneficiary and Zimbabwe operational headquarters are distinguished. Self-reported employment rates are not independently audited; future targets and trainee aspirations excluded.
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Minimum public-source checks passed on 2026-10-05: named identity, official presence, recent reported activity and an authorized giving route with an identifiable recipient.
Minimum public-source checks only. Identity and delivery statements may be organization-reported. Live registry standing, bank ownership, payment settlement, use of an individual gift and field outcomes were not independently audited. No payment made. Evidence describes its stated reporting period, not guaranteed delivery today. 365-day annual-report window. African affiliates are independent implementing entities, not additional directory entries. Dutch beneficiary and Zimbabwe operational headquarters are distinguished. Self-reported employment rates are not independently audited; future targets and trainee aspirations excluded.
Own ANBI page names Stichting Young Africa International, Amsterdam postal address and RSIN 806823598; official giving page names the same foundation as bank beneficiary.
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Public sources corroborate identity or source attribution only; no independent impact audit.
Source relationship: Organization-authored programme report and official giving instructions
Guided redirects require current checks. Operational evidence uses a 180-day reporting-period window, annual reports use 365 days, and source reviews are due within 90 days. These dates do not guarantee present operations.
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