Over the past three decades, our experience show that facilitating and empowering young leaders can have a profound impact on them, their workplace, and the wider community.

Between 2004 and 2014, our organization have invested significant resources, providing training, mentoring, and numerous opportunities for young people to learn, practice, and hold leadership positions.

Lawrence Gomez, the Associate Regional Secretary for English-and Portuguese-speaking Africa (EPSA) Region - IFES, in white shirt on the right, poses with our founder (wearing the shirt with the CCLK logo) and other young people aspiring to become leaders.

The Regional Program Manager for Africa - One Sight Essilor Luxottica Foundation, Vincent Mendy, (standing second on the left in the photo below), is one of many young leaders our organization have supported in similar ways

Louie Jarjue, the tall fellow, putting on the multicolored shirt, standing next to Vincent Mendy on the left, and receiving our certificate from our former parish priest, Fr. Anthony Sonko below, dropped out from school early.

He was invited to our organization as a youth volunteer, when he dropped out from school. We provided him with scholarship grants to enrolled in electrical installation at the nation's top college, Gambia Technical Training Institution. He graduated and worked for the National Electricity and Water Corporation, and years later, went back to the same college to study and work for the institution. He later became a professor at the college.

The sisters, Cecilia and Marian, were children volunteers of our organization in Gambia, where Lawrence, Vincent, and Louie were born and raised and benefitted from our personal and leadership development initiatives for young people. In 2014, the sisters immigrated to the United States with their father, our founder, and continued to volunteer in their schools, churches, and communities.

Cecilia Mendy visited Gambia in 2021 during her summer school holidays, and volunteered at our schools

In the prior year 2020, during her eighth grade, Cecilia received the Wake County Board of Education Spotlight Award for Most Outstanding Student of her middle school, among over five hundred students, based on the district's requirements for academic, character, service, and leadership. In high school, she was inducted to the United States National Honors Society of High School Scholars, meeting all the academic, behavioral, and community services performance requirements.

Her older sister, Marian Valerie Mendy, quickly began to make an impact in the United States - at school, and in the communities.

She was also volunteering in communities, schools, and churches, since she was a little child in Gambia. In America, Marian continued volunteering and received recognition for her academic and community service leadership skills. The organizations that acknowledged and honored her accomplishments while pursing her bachelor's degree include nationwide academic honors societies based in New York, Virginia, the University of California, the University of Chicago, Illinois, and the University of Oklahoma City, and the National Honors Society of High School Scholars while in high school.