Yei Community Resource Centre

Country: Sudan
Address: Yei, Central Equatoria State
Telephone: +249 955 063 621/+256 477 100 762
Fax:
Email: ericjuliet2004@yahoo.co.uk
www:
Contact person: Eric J. Moses, manager

Theme: Building Local Democracy

Yei Community Resource Centre (YCRC) is a non-governmental, non-profit making and non-partisan organisation established with the purpose of enhancing access to information. The vision of the resource centres is “a well-informed progressive and self-reliant community with the spirit of inclusiveness, hard work and respect for the rule of law and human rights geared towards building a lively, innovative and democratic society”.

Objectives

•  Establish an education and information centre that will provide access to skilful and professional training and development of the youth and the community at large
• Contribute to building local democracy through improved access to information
• Assist the community in attaining adequate capacity utilisation and sustainable development which protect the environment and encourage community participation and foster self-reliance
• Advocate for community needs and concerns with local government and like-minded institutions and organisations
• Bring together efforts of the existing education establishments, clubs, groups, institutions, religions and individuals to contribute and participate in the implementation of education and human development programmes
• Provide facilities for research and surveys on the needs of the community and use the results for technical, professional and training development purposes

Activities

• Library services
• Book box lending scheme
• Community dialogue on thematic issues of governance
• Inter-school debates in support of civic education at schools
• Work camps
• Computer training
• Secretarial services
• War museum guided tours
• Games and sports
• Drama and forum theatre
• Workshops and seminar services
• Accommodation and conference facilities 

Yei Community Resource Centre was an initiative taken by the community in 1998. In the beginning, the centre was funded by the Operation a Day's Work through NSEA. Today, the centre is independent and the development of activities are implemented by the management team and supervised by the executive board.