Franca Sulem Yong

Franca Sulem Yong works for Peace Education by schooling refugees, the mentally ill and street children while enabling them to transform pain to purpose by harnessing and expressing their creative abilities. Formed out of the need to free people of African descent from the “blame game” which has only fueled more armed conflicts and civil wars, we seek to help Africans rise above this victim mentality by inspiring, engaging and empowering the youths to build a victorious mindset where they see themselves as active contributors to the development of their countries/communities.

As the Executive President of Positive Youths Africa(PYA), she believes that a positive mindset and a quality education are the keys to this “Positive Youth’s Africa” so she employs a holistic approach which takes into context the digital era we live in and promotes digital citizenship education as a means of countering today’s main fuels of armed conflicts such as fake news, hate speech and social media propaganda.