Following extensive field activities by the Green Generation since 2011, which included empowering schools with gardening skills and farm implements, training 200 school teachers and reaching more than 20,000 young students studying agriculture, GLA was created to deepen the level of engagement with young people to ensure continuous impact on creating true leaders ready to tackle future agricultural challenges as well as ensure a food secure future.

GLA has built on this foundation to create a system of mentoring which it has called network mentoring to ensure a successive and progressive leadership guidance at 3 levels: professional mentoring to volunteers interested in agriculture and leadership mentoring to students studying agriculture. The initiative is a self running one and has numerous partners on board who are committed to ensuring that we achieve the sustainable development goals (SGD’s) together. Annually, success stories will be celebrated, schools and mentors awarded who have demonstrated remarkable excellence

We believe through this we will be able to establish good foundational skills which will ensure inclusive and quality agricultural education, ensure sustainable production patterns, take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, end hunger, poverty, malnutrition, ensure good health, gender equality, good jobs, economic growth and partnership for the goals

• Open and free recruitment of Volunteers all year round
• Bi-annual screening and training of Volunteer for Youth Agri-Lead program
• Facilitating e-learning of agribusiness skills for Volunteers
• Matching with Mentors Annually for Volunteers
• Planning and implementing state and National YFC school competitions
• Organizing annual Volunteer and Partners meeting and AWARDS
• Publishing articles of mentors, volunteers and schools monthly

Key areas

• Organic agriculture
• Environmental conservation
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship

Mission
Become an SDG program that will establish good foundational skills for inclusive and quality agricultural education, ensure sustainable production patterns, take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, end hunger, poverty, malnutrition, ensure good health, gender equality and partnership for the goals in Africa

Vision
To become a world renowned youth incubator for excellent skills needed for Agricultural development

Objectives

• Committed to contributing our part in creating a world that is food secure, environmentally and economically secure,
• Promote environmental sustainable culture among young people and their sphere of influence (friends, family and community)
• Build climate smart agriculture skills into young people to produce more food and reduce post harvest losses
• Building agricultural entrepreneurs that will be ready to tackle challenges for the food future through research and development
• Incubate young scientists into solution, demand driven research careers
• Engage young minds actively and effectively to reduce juvenile delinquency and youth unemployment / underemployment

• Manage a network of volunteers to mentor high school agricultural students
• Train GLA volunteers with agribusiness skills, climate smart skills and environmental skills
• Engage a mentoring network of successful Female Agricultural professionals to mentor volunteers
• Establish agricultural school clubs managed by volunteers
• Follow up and publish stories of change resulting from the chain of network mentoring
• Organize 2 annual competitions for school agricultural clubs and for GLA volunteers