Empowering Africa's Future

African Young People Support Centre

We empower young Africans, protect women and children, keep girls in school, end period poverty, support inmates, and advocate for dignity at every border. Because progress that excludes Africa is not progress.

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8 Programme Pillars
9 Declaration Articles
Vienna 2026 Declaration
UN ECOSOC — Applying
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Who We Are

Built for the Africa that is Coming

The African Young People Support Centre exists to empower African young people — and the women, children, and communities that surround them — to become architects of their own futures. We believe Africa's progress is inseparable from the agency of its youth and the dignity of its most vulnerable people.

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A continent where every young African can move, learn, work, and lead with dignity — unobstructed by broken systems, invisible borders, or the absence of opportunity.

— AYPSC Vision Statement

Our Eight Programme Pillars
01Youth Mobility & Border Rights
02Digital Inclusion
03Women & Children's Rights
04Girl Child Education
05No to Period Poverty
06Prison Reform & Inmate Support
07Health & Wellbeing
08Policy Advocacy & Research
What We Do

Eight Pillars. One Mission.

Each programme responds to a real gap. Each is backed by delivery. Each is connected by a single conviction — that the exclusion of African people from the systems that govern their lives is a design choice, and design choices can be reversed.

01 — Youth Mobility
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Youth Mobility & Border Rights

Advocating for young Africans navigating visa systems, digital borders, and trusted traveller frameworks. Conveners of the African Workshop at the World Border Security Congress, Vienna.

Vienna Declaration →
02 — Digital Inclusion
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Digital Inclusion & Technology Access

Bridging the digital divide. Equipping young Africans with the skills, devices, and connectivity to participate fully in the digital economy and governance systems.

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03 — Women & Children
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Women & Children's Rights

Protection, empowerment, and advocacy for women and children across Africa. Legal awareness, psychosocial support, anti-GBV sensitisation, and child protection programming.

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04 — Girl Child Education
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Girl Child Education Initiative

Keeping African girls in school. School retention support, scholarship advocacy, community sensitisation, and mentorship connecting girls with professional role models.

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05 — Period Poverty
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No to Period Poverty Campaign

Our flagship campaign to end menstrual poverty across Africa. Period poverty causes millions of girls to miss school and drop out permanently. We campaign, distribute, educate, and advocate to end it.

Campaign Updates →
06 — Prison Reform
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Prison Reform & Inmate Support

Community engagement in correctional facilities. February 2026: AYPSC visited Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, in partnership with the Nigerian government — counselling, welfare, and rehabilitation advocacy.

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07 — Health
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Health & Wellbeing

Reproductive health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and WHO-aligned PMTCT counselling services. Our Executive Director is a WHO-trained PMTCT Counsellor — this is trained commitment, not peripheral interest.

Health Services →
08 — Advocacy
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Policy Advocacy & Research

Evidence-based policy briefs on digital borders, biometric bias, visa discrimination, and African youth mobility rights. Representing Africa in spaces where decisions that affect African lives are made.

Policy Positions →
Real Impact. Real People.
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Programme Pillars
9
Vienna Declaration Articles
45%
Schengen rejection rate for Nigerian travellers — we're changing this
Feb '26
Kuje Prison Outreach — Abuja, Nigeria
Vienna 2026

The Vienna Declaration

Proclaimed at the World Border Security Congress, Vienna — 14 April 2026. The Youth Mobility & Border Innovation Charter. Nine founding articles. One commitment to be lived.

IThe Right to Belong to a System
IIAfrica as Author, Not Afterthought
IIIThe Identity Foundation
IVAlgorithmic Accountability
VSovereignty of Data, Sovereignty of Self
VIYouth Mobility as a Development Right
VIIInnovation Without Exclusion
VIIIThe Human Dignity Standard
IXThe Obligation to Act
The Declaration Phrase

"We did not come to Vienna to process people. We came to declare that every person who moves across a border carries a dignity no algorithm can measure, and a potential no checkpoint should extinguish."

— Vienna Declaration 2026 · African Workshop · WBSC
News & Updates

Where We've Been.

Vienna 2026
April 14, 2026 · Vienna, Austria

AYPSC Proclaims the Vienna Declaration 2026 at the World Border Security Congress

In a landmark moment at the African Workshop, AYPSC led the proclamation of the Youth Mobility & Border Innovation Charter — nine founding articles establishing principles for digital borders and young African travellers.

Prison Outreach
February 2026 · Abuja, Nigeria

AYPSC Visits Kuje Correctional Centre in Partnership with Nigerian Government

Counselling, welfare assessment, and dialogue with authorities on systemic reform. The beginning of a sustained programme.

Campaign
Ongoing · Nigeria

No to Period Poverty — National Campaign in Action

Product distribution, school programming, and policy advocacy to end menstrual poverty and keep girls in school across Nigeria.

CMILT UK M.Sc Logistics LBS Certificate Univ. of Illinois OCA WHO PMTCT
Leadership
Executive Director
Paul
Igbinere
CMILT UK · Chief Operations Officer, Hub & Locus Consulting

Paul Igbinere is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (CMILT UK) and serves as Executive Director of AYPSC and Chief Operations Officer of Hub & Locus Consulting — a firm headquartered in Nigeria with an office in the United Kingdom, specialising in Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain and ICT.

He holds an M.Sc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, certificates from the University of London's London Business School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an Oracle Certified Associate, and a WHO-trained PMTCT Counsellor. He is the Convener of the African Workshop at the World Border Security Congress.

"A voice that does not simply present what is already known, but consistently asks the question that others in the room have not yet thought to ask."

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Whether you're a partner, donor, delegate, or just someone who believes in the work — we want to hear from you.

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Let's Build Something Together

AYPSC actively seeks partnerships with international organisations, NGOs, UN agencies, government bodies, academic institutions, and bilateral donors who share our commitment to African youth development and global equity. Every collaboration starts with a conversation.

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Email
aypsc@africamail.com
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Phone / WhatsApp
+44 7432 284 773
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Headquarters
Nigeria · International Reach
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International Presence
World Border Security Congress, Vienna · UN Processes
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