For a decade now they have decided to help strengthen the African Movement of Children and Young Workers (MAEJT) , a self-managed youth social organization that is fighting for the rights of children. They are committed to contribute to achieving their goals, and they do it by their side, in the cities of Thies, Louga and Diourbel in Senegal. Through joint work they strive to improve their living conditions through the exercise of their Rights, strengthening their capacities (together with theirs) to continue to be actors of social transformation in their respective contexts and to continue to grow as referents of the protection of children and youth social leadership in their communities.

Xaley contributes to the strengthening of its capacities with  training, coaching and mentoring ; accompanies them in the consolidation of its structure, working the sustainability of its movement ; contributes to the improvement of its scope,  measuring its impact ; financially supports their projects and builds international alliances to support and help them innovate by improving their current lives and prospects.  

Xaley seeks to put youth initiative in value to inspire and infect there and here.

THEIR EXPERTISE
 
Strengthening youth leadership

- They strengthen youth social movements that are fighting for the rights of children.
- They contribute to the generation of social change through social innovation and collaborative processes, both between public and private sectors and between cultures.
- They are committed to sustainable functioning models fleeing dependency relations and ethnocentrism.

Their Strategic Axes

IMPACT - ALLIANCES - INNOVATION - INSPIRATION

IMPACT

- A methodology for measuring social impact to ensure the greatest reach, efficiency, scalability and replicability.
- A close analytical follow-up of the current projects that allows to improve the approaches of intervention of continuous way.
- The creation of a methodology of incubation of social movements.

ALLIANCES

- They generate "win-win" relationships that contribute to the mission of the organizations involved in a more efficient and sustainable way, implying the need to reinforce the collective consciousness between South and North societies and the construction of global citizenship.
- Each person or organization that shares the illusion and responsibility to contribute to the well-being and youth empowerment of every corner of the planet, has space: time, resources, probono, contacts, etc.

INNOVATION

- They are catalysts of ideas and actions for collaborative innovation processes with different actors in their projects

Where they are

Senegal is a young country. Children under 15 make up 44 per cent of the country's total population and 64.0 per cent are under 25 years of age. The infant mortality rate was 50% in 2010 and the infant mortality rate of less than five years was 75%. One in three boys and girls does not go to school for a single year. Xaley is working hand in hand with the 3 associations of the Movement of Children and Young Workers of the cities of Thiés, Diourbel and Louga and the National Coordination of the movement that supports the 15 other associations of the country.