BUBL works with Liberia’s youth to address challenges facing young people and the nation. BUBL organizes a series of workshops and training to help promote peace and interfaith harmony. I applied for a 2020 YES Alumni Grant to help sponsor the BUBL National Youth Summit 2021, which engaged 25 youth, ages 18 to 30, from Liberia’s 15 counties on the topics of peace, leadership, interfaith dialogue, and development.

The participants of the training expressed their gratitude and even vowed to be ambassadors of peace to inform others of the importance of what they learned during the training.

One of my most formative exchange experiences was attending the Better Understanding for a Better World (BUBW) conference in Baltimore, Maryland. During the summit, I met and learned much about interfaith harmony from youth leaders from around the world. 

Since the start of BUBL in January, the initiative has directly impacted more than 700 Liberians. Approximately 15 of these participants have either started or completed a community initiative ranging from clean up campaigns to health and sanitary workshops.

I am Musa A Kabbah, a YES alumnus from Liberia. While on the YES exchange program two years ago, I was fortunate to have been selected to participate in the Better Understanding for a Better World (BUBW) conference held in Baltimore.