The Youth Café is proud to announce that our digital/media information literacy projects with African youth has won FIRST place in the 2020 UNESCO GLOBAL AWARDS. The award cements our goal to become a world leader in Media Information Literacy (MIL) and recognizes our extensive work on digital/media information literacy in the continent.
The Youth Café has over the years undertaken projects and activities to further digital/media information literacy among the youth in Africa. In the recent past, The Youth Café implemented a media project aimed at cultivating youth power to advance media independence. We have trained and mentored a diverse mix of 1243 aspiring young leaders to produce 2378 powerful independent media content published on our "Perspectives" blog which is now on Google News and Apple News listing, thereby reaching over 300,000 readers monthly and helping to moderate contentious discourses about issues affecting the young people in some 22 African countries.