{"id":1976,"date":"2025-08-22T15:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fjnetwork.org\/index\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2025-08-24T04:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:29:49","slug":"youth-empowerment-peace-building-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fjnetwork.org\/index\/youth-empowerment-peace-building-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Women for Change Empowerment Peacebuilding Camp 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From August 18\u201323, 2025, the serene and purpose-filled environment of NABS Village in Bo City, Sierra Leone, became a vibrant hub for transformation, inspiration, and empowerment. The Young Women for Change Empowerment Peacebuilding Camp, under the theme: \u201cRooted in Dignity: Building Morality, Values, and Self-Esteem for Transformational Leadership\u201d brought together 50 young people\u2014mostly young women\u2014from churches in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea to explore their personal values, enhance their self-worth, and ignite their leadership potential through faith, moral reflection, and community-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The camp\u2019s theme reflected a deeper mission: to cultivate transformational leadership rooted in personal dignity, moral clarity, and resilient self-esteem. These are not just individual qualities\u2014they are tools for peacebuilding in a region where history has tested the spirit of its youth, especially young women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Participants engaged in days of learning, spiritual reflection, storytelling, workshops, and mentorship sessions. Through shared meals, interfaith dialogue, and cross-border friendships, they discovered that peace and leadership begin from within\u2014and ripple outward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cExploring My Values \u2013 Faith as a Guide\u201d by Rt. Rev. Dr. James B. Sellee, Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Liberia, opened the camp with a stirring keynote that set the tone for the week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>\u201cWhen your life is rooted in values and faith, you won\u2019t be shaken by trends or pressures. You become a tree of strength in your community.\u201d  <\/em> \u2014 Rt. Rev. Dr. James B. Sellee, Liberia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He emphasized the vital connection between faith and personal values\u2014how young leaders must draw strength from within and from their Creator to lead ethically and with conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rev. Fr. Dennis C. Nimene, General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Liberia, shared a compelling message on the urgency of moral leadership in today\u2019s rapidly shifting societies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>\u201cWe live in a world that rewards visibility, not always values. But leadership without morality is dangerous. It is your responsibility to be the difference.\u201d <\/em>  \u2014 Rev. Fr. Dennis C. 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