
Swaliho M. Fofana, Executive Director
- Swaliho is the Lead Founder and Executive Director of YouthAid-Liberia, a national youth development NGO where he works as a Lead Focus Person for general and administrative duties, including supervising, developing and leading all YAL's programs and projects at local and global level. Swaliho also work as a Revenue Auditor at the Liberia Revenue Authority, where he conducts audit and revenue compliance services on large taxpayers. Swaliho is a multi-task young professional and has a long standing experience in youth service and community development works and has developed many youth development project proposals. Swaliho has worked with the African Methodist Episcopal University's Human Resources Department as an HR Officer for Recruitment & Training, University of Liberia's Business & Finance Office as a Business & Finance Officer and partly worked as a Loan Officer at Access Bank Liberia Limited. Swaliho became the first Liberian student to serve as a Campus Director of the Hult Prize at the University of Liberia’s Campus Hub and later initiated, lunched and organized the 1st Edition of Hult Prize HP2018 OnCampus Business Idea Competitions among students of the UL. Swaliho is a 2018 Fellow of the 5th West African Executive Course on Human Rights and Drug Policy held in Accra, Ghana, which was fully funded by the Open Society Foundations, OSIWA and the University of Ghana, School of Law. Swaliho holds a BBA degree in Accounting since 2013 from the University of Liberia, certificates in Fundraising Concepts, Creating & Maintaining Social Enterprises and Community Organizing for Action from YALI Network, The U. S. Department of State and has achieved series of capacity-building certificates from BSC Monrovia/iLab Liberia in Business and Financial Plan development and certificate in Project Planning & Management from the Liberia Institute of Public Administration (LIPA), Project Planning & Management, Monitoring & Evaluation and Financial Management from Last Mile Learning, Certificate, Human Rights and Drug Policy at the University of Ghana and Certificated as an Intuit QuickBooks Certified User, Desktop QuickBooks Pro. Swaliho is a graduating candidate of MBA degree in Public Financial Management at the Financial Management Training School/University of Liberia Graduate School.
Alieu F. Feika, Senior Program Manager
As a Co-Founder of YAL, Alieu is a practical program development strategist with wealth of experience working with youth oriented and development organizations. Alieu has worked as Administrative/Research Assistant at the AME University Institutional Research Department; Data Collection Officer for a USAID funded Mosquito Net Project implemented by Liberia Monitoring & Evaluation Program (L-MEP) in Gbarpolu and Grand Cape mount and Bomi counties in 2014. Alieu have worked as a Project Manager, for YouthAid-Liberia (YAL) Community Action Against Polio Projects in densely communities in Montserrado County funded by LIP, GAVI Alliance and CRS Liberia, Civic & Voter Education Projects in Bong County funded by the International Foundation for Electoral System (IFES). Alieu graduated with BBA degree in Accounting in 2012 from the University of Liberia and holds a certificate in Monitoring & Evaluation from the Liberia Institute of Public Administration (LIPA). |
Ms. Janet Ricks, Volunteer Coordinator
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Ms. Esther Sackie, Finance & Admin Assistant
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Varlee M. Kanneh, Program Assistant
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Joshua Lablah, County Focus Officer-Bong County
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