Our people

2YoungLives is a truly global project with staff and volunteers working from both Sierra Leone and the UK

Our Founders:

Mangenda Kamara and Lucy November started 2YoungLives in 2017. Mangenda oversees the project in Sierra Leone and in December 2025 graduated with her PhD in Gender Studies. Lucy is based at Kings College London.

Our Lifeline Nehemiah Projects team:

Philemon Kamara, Administrative Director
Francess Williams, Lead coordinator
Alfred Gbembo, Finance officer
Prince Tommy Williams, Executive Director

Our Amazing Mentors:

Kuntorloh 1 team
Kuntorloh 2 team
Port Loko team
Moyamba Junction team
Bumpe team
Taiama team
Punduru team
Mattru Jong team
Lengekoro team
Tombo team
Calaba Town team
Portee team

The mentees: So far, 650 young women have been part of 2YoungLives. These young women are resilient, resourceful and committed to creating a positive future for themselves and their children. They support and encourage each other throughout the process and many of them create positive friendships beyond their time as a mentee.

So far, 650 young women have been part of 2YoungLives. These young women are resilient, resourceful and committed to creating a positive future for themselves and their children.

Girls support and encourage each other, forming positive friendships beyond their mentoring year.
Girls support and encourage each other, forming positive friendships beyond their mentoring year.
Three friends in Kuntorloh
Three teenage mums in Kuntorloh
An important call at the graduation
An important call is taken at graduation!
Mums and babies at graduation
Mums celebrate at a 2YoungLives graduation
Mother smiling holding baby
Mentor, mums and babies
A mentor with one of our lovely babies
Mother and baby
Mum and her baby in Kuntorloh
Mother and baby at celebration
Mum and daughter celebrate at graduation
Aisha* is one of our mums. She was just 16 when she found out she was pregnant. She had to leave school, had nowhere to live and felt very alone and hopeless until 2YoungLives came into contact with her. Now she has returned to school, runs a small business and has reconciled with her family thanks to the support of her mentor. She has grown in confidence and is helping other pregnant teenagers by sharing her own experience and using the 2YoungLives materials on safe pregnancy and birth. Eisha is proud of her achievements and we are too. She has great strength, is able to support her family and is determined to be a great mother. She is role model, a friend and peer mentor in her own right. *name changed