gold has a vision: To see a generation of ethical young African leaders confronting the root issues of youth risk behaviour, unemployment and poverty, through uplifting their communities and imparting vision and purpose to present and future generations. gold-youth has a mission: To roll out quality youth peer education programmes in alignment to the gold Model thereby empowering youth peer leaders to become positive role models and agents of social and economic change. gold-youth uses the theory of youth peer education where positive peer pressure is structured to bring about sustained community change at scale through an ‘each one reach one’ approach. gold has an audacious goal: To develop ten million young African leaders with character and integrity to mobilise their generation with the knowledge, tools and support to reach their full potential, with concrete results in social behaviour change, education & job creation.