CCLK Networking facilitates opportunities for closer collaboration among young professionals, entrepreneurs, and employees of reputable organizations across our regions. Through their interactions they can initiate and pursue practical and effective solutions to their problems and their communities.

Youth conferences, networking, and collaboration, increase young leaders' view of the world, expanding their knowledge of the issues confronting them, and gaining a broader understanding of problems and solutions to their own development. In various regional and global youth leadership forums, young people have expressed the need to remove barriers affecting their close collaboration across regions, undermining efforts to build trust and confidence among them, and making it difficult to work together.

These calls were renewed at the Young African Leaders' Summit in Washington DC in 2018, jointly hosted by the African Union Mission to the United States, the US Department of State, Constituency for Africa, and the United States Africa Development Foundation, which our founder attended

The summit was attended by young African leaders across the United States, employees representing various US Departments of State, and members of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders (from every country in the 49 Sub-Saharan Africa). The Fellowship is the flagship program of the U.S. Government’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI).

For two-three consecutive years, we have hosted students from Stenden College and two of their professors, sharing our experiences, and exchanging ideas. The students and professors have been our guests, and we held open forum-style conversations where we explore any topic freely. We also had the opportunity to visit several places of interests to expand their view of the world around them.

In 2013, leaders of the three regions, Gambia (CCLK Gambia), and Senegal (Thies and Ziguinchor) met, following exchange visits by all parties to promote closer collaboration in ways that facilitate our young people's development. The week-long gathering involved meetings, a picnic, site seeing, and other activities. Below, some of the visitors toured places of interest to them.

Our history of networking and collaboration among youths began in the region of Thies, and for the first time, CCLK Gambia youth members travelled outside of the country for these purposes.