YONER’s mentees, Deborah K Gonkpah and Tawah Tamba Interviewed Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

We are excited to share that two of our mentees, Deborah K Gonkpah and Tawah Tamba were selected among the 2021 Cohort of SHE-CAN Scholars and were provided the platform to interview Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf today at her residence in Monrovia on October 26, 2021. Deborah and Tawah are our mentees who were selected as SHE-CAN Scholars through a nation-wide search for exceptional emerging female leaders, which qualified them to study in the United States of America at any college/university of their choice on a full-ride scholarship.

YONER Liberia, as an ethical and transformational youth driven organization, we have been pursuing a transformational leadership initiative in Liberia, Africa through over 13 years – youth as a solution, not as a problem. We have experienced and seen through our work that when young people are encouraged and not ignored and looked down upon, positive change occurs in the lives of everyone. We have also seen how young people have demonstrated again and again that when they are nurtured with the right skills and tools and provided structured opportunities, they show the ability to transform themselves and their peers, especially the most needy from victims to leaders, from at-risk to at- strength, from shelter to a shaper of community and society at large, and from service seekers to service providers and solutions finders. This is why we at YONER Liberia reimagining education and employability through higher education advancement and social entrepreneurial education in Liberia”.