The Yachay Initiative is a registered nonprofit organization that focuses on fostering youth education and empowerment as a vehicle for community development and poverty alleviation.
[1] Founded in 2010 and named after the Quichua (Ecuadorian) verb “to learn”, the Yachay Initiative (YI) has projects in Ecuador, Germany, and Scotland.
[5] In Germany, YI runs leadership programs with children in underprivileged elementary schools in Bremen.
Yachay Germany is currently launching a new and revised full length youth leadership project in partnership with a fifth grade class at the Gerhard-Rohlfs Oberschule in Vegesack.
[6] A first round of presentations is expected to be held in high schools in Canada, Scotland, Germany, Norway, and Ethiopia by the end of 2011/early 2012.