PEOPLE

MEMBERSHIP: YEP now has a rapidly increasing membership base of more than 700 devoted young people across the globe. Most of these young people are serving the YEP vision in Ghana and Liberia. YEP currently has at least a member in the following countries where they serve as ambassadors of the Vision: Australia, Canada, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and USA. 

MANAGEMENT: YEP is presently managed by a team of  twenty (20) young Executive Members who are actively running the activities of the organization in Ghana from where the vision was conceived and birthed, making relevant decisions in support of the YEP vision. Each leader is at the moment volunteers and serves in positions that best suit their skills and ability to perform effectively and efficiently. Below are few of the leaders:

MEET THE CEO

Joseph M D Johnson, a Liberian Youth Advocate,  Head of Secretariat of 2012 Model AU Summit, UN Youth Peace Ambassador, a certified African Union Youth Volunteer who is highly involved in youth empowerment and African Youth activities.  He completed his BSc in Marketing at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)as an Albert Einstein's DAFI Scholar. He is an expert in planning and implementing Youth Projects and Programs that focus on Quality Education, Youth Participation, Good Governance, Employment and ICT.

Joseph has devoted his voluntary services to creating partnership with African Youth Ministries across the continent to help strength the knot through dialogue and partnership. This commitment have driven his time and efforts to work along with youth organizations from different background, planning and organizing forums, conferences, summits and high profile meetings.

MEET THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Emmanuel Zeeco Cisco is an international best-selling author of the book, Between HER WOMB & YOUR TOMB. He is a highly enthusiastic and self-motivated young man who has gained significant amount of knowledge and experience fulfilling various leadership and management roles. Cisco strongly believes that there so many young people in his generation who will not realize their true potential unless someone stand up to encourage them.

He was awarded Best Student, BSc in Economics at the 13th Congregation of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and also received the Overall Best Liberian Student in Ghana 2012/13 award from the Liberian Students Association in Ghana (LISA-GH). He is a former Albert Einstein's DAFI scholar, a social entrepreneur, a youth campaigner, a professional blogger and a motivational speaker who owes his life and achievements-so-far to God through Christ Jesus. 

MEET THE CHAIRMAN

D’ Siafa Draper, affectionately called “DR.DRAPE.” is a development practitioner, motivational speaker and youth coach, an inspirational writer, a classic poet, a professional architectural draughtsman and a lover of Christ.

Over the years, his interest in youth empowerment has been stimulated with great enthusiasm as a desire to reach the disadvantaged youths in his community and beyond in any way and whenever possible. He is passionately working towards youth development with an expected hope that one day the void between those poor boys and girls on the refuse site somewhere in Sudan and Grand Cape Mount and the affluent ones in the Developed Countries will have the same words to communicate; words that are hidden on the shelf of our libraries and bookstores, words that open that door.