Rural Guinea • Education • Livelihoods

JEUNE ESPOIR

We strive for sustainable livelihoods and servant leadership.

Who we are
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Our Mission for a Better Guinea

Raise the standard of education and academic performance, help youth identify and create sustainable livelihoods, and develop servant leaders of integrity. We implement the following programs to ensure that more young people reach their fullest potential, even in their home country.

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Our work

Programs built around learning, dignity, and service

Each program page preserves the original three-part structure: program description, program projects, and quick facts.

PBL

Powerful Blended Learning

Combining face-to-face and digital instruction so students actively participate in accessible, authentic, challenging, collaborative, connected, inquisitive, and reflective learning.

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SLIC

Sustainable Livelihood Identification and Creation

Equipping young people to identify, design, launch, and sustain dignified businesses in their own communities while respecting the environment.

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EDLIS

English, Digital Literacy, and Intercultural Skills

Helping underserved young people build English, digital-literacy, leadership, professional, and intercultural skills for equitable participation in the global economy.

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Impact

Quick Facts

1000+Students and teachers have accessed locally relevant digital mathematics and science resources.
95%Reported national-exam success among students tutored through Jeune Espoir, compared with a general pass rate below 50%.
150+Rural young people strengthened their English and intercultural skills through structured programs.
20Educators participated in the first Powerful Blended Learning pilot in Dalaba.
News & impact

Stories from Jeune Espoir

Success Stories • May 24, 2024

Aissata Lamarana Bah — The Promise of Digital Education

Aissata’s Community Engagement Exchange fellowship at Digital Promise strengthened Jeune Espoir’s Powerful Blended Learning work and helped prepare rural educators to use technology in low-tech environments.

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Success Stories • December 20, 2021

True Social Impact Starts With Its Authors

One cannot contribute to changing others’ lives if one’s own life has not changed. From a volunteer to a Fulbright MA holder in Sustainable Development from a US institution, Sekou Mansare’s life was changed to enable him to start and lead the change-maker Jeune Espoir. This article tells the story.

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Help young people prosper in place

Your support helps teachers use powerful learning methods, gives students access to offline digital resources, strengthens English and digital skills, and helps entrepreneurs launch sustainable livelihoods.