Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT)

Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT) can be narrated in the form of two identifiable processes that were happening in Zimbabwe and Switzerland from the year 2 000. YETT started operating as a programme under Ecumenical Documentation and Information Centre in Southern Africa (EDICISA) supported by a Local Reference Group (LRG). In the year 2 000 three Switzerland-based organizations, HEKS (The Council Protestant Churches in Switzerland), BMI (Bethlehem Mission, a Catholic organisation) and FEPA (Fund for Development and Partnership in Africa) committed to helping the new nation’s development decided to join their efforts into a single program for better impact. The Swiss agencies decided that this program should be shaped out of an initial survey, which would be followed by consultative meetings. Subsequently, working with 12 youth organizations, consultative meetings were held in Bulawayo, Mutare, and Harare between April and May of 2004.