YOUTH GLOW INC.
Women planting tree crop seedlings under forest shadeZortarpa savings group members seated in their community forest, Nimba CountyYouth Glow field staff with savings group members and their savings kits in ZortarpaCommunity members gathered with the Sustainable Land Conservation Project bannerParticipants of the Sustainable Land Conservation Project waving beside the project banner

Healthy land.Thriving people.

Youth Glow is a youth- and women-led Liberian NGO. We help forest communities in Nimba and Bong settle land disputes, protect their forests, earn from them and save what they earn.

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Why we exist

Around Liberia’s forests, families clear land because standing forest does not pay. We change that, so protecting the forest becomes the way people earn.

Youth Glow Inc. was founded in 2019 in Ganta, Nimba County. We are a registered and accredited Liberian NGO with nine staff and an independent board of four, and women hold 66% of our senior management roles. We give women and youth farmers and petty traders green, digital, business and peacebuilding skills. We work in Nimba and Bong today and aim to expand nationwide.

About Youth Glow
Project participants meeting in the forest in Nimba County
2019Founded in Ganta,
Nimba County
66%of senior managers
are women
2 → 15counties: Nimba and Bong
today, all 15 next

One model, four steps.

We call it PPSS. Each step makes the next one possible, and each community moves through all four in about 24 months.

The full programme
1

Peace

We settle land and boundary disputes before anything else, so no family risks its land by joining.

  • Dialogue platforms with chiefs, elders, women, youth and landowners
  • Mediation of land, boundary and concession disputes, with signed agreements
  • Boundaries mapped by GPS and agreed on the ground
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2

Protect

Communities secure legal rights to their forests and agree how to protect them.

  • Free, prior and informed consent in every community
  • Support through the FDA’s community forest steps
  • Conservation agreements with no-clear and use zones; trained forest guards
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3

Skill

Women and youth learn skills that pay, starting with business and money for everyone.

  • Sustainable agriculture: cocoa, coffee and oil palm, with cassava and short-term crops
  • Beekeeping and honey processing
  • Community solar, buyer links and a producer cooperative
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4

Save

Savings groups keep the gains and fund the next season.

  • Village savings and loan groups, many led by women
  • Digital records and mobile money
  • Loans for seedlings, hives and equipment; each group trains a new one
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Community members gathered with the Sustainable Land Conservation Project bannerCommunity members gathered under the forest canopyBeekeeping training in a community hallYouth Glow field staff with savings group members and their savings kits in ZortarpaDisputes settled

Mamie's story

One life. Five years. Four steps.

Follow Mamie, a young woman in Zortarpa, as Peace, Protect, Skill and Save change her life and the lives around her.

Mamie is an illustrative character based on the women we work with. Results marked as verified are real project data.

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What we have done so far

Five completed projects in Nimba and Bong, 2023 to 2026, with US$80,000 in project funds managed.

Our full impact
2,460people reached
414people trained, 80% of them women
1,583savings group members supported
600+acres of forest pledged in Zortarpa

Contributing to six Sustainable Development Goals and Liberia’s ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development, NDC 3.0, Land Rights Act and Community Rights Law. How we contribute · Download our profile

Farming that keeps the forest standing.

Families need income now and income that lasts. We plant only on land already farmed; no forest is cleared for any crop.

Women planting tree crop seedlings under forest shade

Tree crops for the long term

Cocoa, coffee and oil palm, grown with shade trees.

Community members with wheelbarrows, cutlasses and farm tools handed over to their group

Short-term crops for income now

Cassava, rice, vegetables, pepper and groundnut while the trees grow.

The new apiary shelter with hive stands, near the East Nimba hills

Honey

Hives at the forest edge pay only while the forest flowers, so people protect it.

In the field

Photos from our projects in Nimba County.

Women planting tree crop seedlings under forest shade
Planting tree crops under shade, Nimba
Beekeeping training in a community hall
Beekeeping training
The new apiary shelter with hive stands, near the East Nimba hills
The new apiary shelter
Participants building a wooden top-bar beehive
Building a top-bar hive
Youth Glow field staff with savings group members and their savings kits in Zortarpa
Savings kits for Zortarpa groups
Community members with wheelbarrows, cutlasses and farm tools handed over to their group
Farm tools for a community group
Group members learning to use mobile phones during training
Learning mobile money
Community members gathered with the Sustainable Land Conservation Project banner
Project launch with the community
Participants of the Sustainable Land Conservation Project waving beside the project banner
Sustainable Land Conservation Project

Latest news

All news
Participants of the Sustainable Land Conservation Project waving beside the project banner

Zortarpa pledges more than 600 acres of community forest

Zortarpa community members in Youth Glow shirts during forest training

One model, four steps: our programme for 2027 to 2031

Let’s grow this together.

Fund a step, deliver PPSS with us, or bring the model to your communities.

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