The Youth Day of Service (YDOS) is an annual week-long youth-led social impact event designed to rally the agency and creativity of young people across Africa towards sustainable development (SDGs). It represents a unique opportunity to mobilise and engage youth (ages 13-35) to take action and perform acts of service in their communities, and it is scheduled to hold the week of the ‘International Youth Day’ commencing August 12th.

The campaign theme for YDOS 2022 is ‘Youthful and Useful’ and the event will be held from August 12th – to August 18th.

YDOS 2022 has a few processes that interested volunteers like you need to go through to successfully register and lead a project of your choice. Please see below for more information:

Before Registration

• Learn more about how to ‘Register a Project’ by clicking on the ‘Register’ Button on the Website 
• All interested individuals must locate the resource tab on the YDOS portal and select the resources available under ‘Register a project’ to gain more information about what the process entails. 
• Potential project leads should ensure that they tick all the appropriate boxes (preferably all 3) in the screening criteria displayed in order to verify their project eligibility and move to the next stage of registration. 
• Project leads will be required to create a closed WhatsApp group for your proposed project before filling out the details of the registration form. This is to ensure that volunteers for your project can readily access the group and participate in the planning and execution of your project.
• Potential project leads should fill out a registration form with the required details of your proposed project and click on ‘submit’.
• Once you click submit you will see a prompt on the screen confirming your project registration. 

After Registration 

• When you successfully register your project, you will receive a confirmation email that includes details of your project as well as the link to a general Telegram group to meet and connect with fellow YDOS volunteers. 
• All verified projects will be displayed on the YDOS website automatically
• Project leads will participate in an onboarding meeting hosted by the LEAP Africa YDOS team.
• If you indicated you need volunteers, every time someone signs up, you will receive an email notification. 
• All project leads are expected to begin engagement on their WhatsApp groups. For details on how to get started, please see the guide on ‘Leading a Project’.
• Designated YDOS volunteers a.k.a Helpline/Support Champs” will be added to the general Telegram group to provide real-time (bespoke) support to all project leads. 
• In the meantime, follow us on social media “@leapafrica” and “@youthdayofservice” on Instagram; “LEAP Africa,” on Facebook, and “@LEAPAfrica” on Twitter, to stay updated on YDOS 2022. 
• Experiencing any issues with registration and project verification, kindly contact the team via the chatbox on the website or via ydos@leapafrica.org