Founder profile · documented public record
Trevor Young is Founder & Managing Director of Young Sustainability Initiative (YSI Africa). His current work focuses on building practical environmental systems in Sierra Leone across waste management, sanitation, circular economy, coastal and wetland protection, and evidence-led project development.
Current focus
YSI Africa is developing a localized waste-interception and circular resource-recovery model in Freetown and an evidence-led protection and recovery programme for Aberdeen Creek. The organization separates field evidence from proposals and technical hypotheses and does not claim municipal waste-collection authority.
Freetown Circular Waste Recovery Project →
Aberdeen Creek Protection & Recovery Project →
Selected documented history
The entries below are included because they are supported by external public sources or YSI's current institutional record.
The Washington Post profiled Young while he was developing a rural power concept for Sierra Leone at the University of Maryland and reported university-backed competition funding for the work. Read the Washington Post profile →
A World Bank-hosted speaker biography identifies Trevor Young as originally from Sierra Leone, founder of Tseai Energy Unlimited, and a co-founder of Sierra Leone Action during the Ebola period. It also records his University of Maryland environmental-economics background. Open the World Bank-hosted biography →
YSI's current institutional record documents sustained environmental field activity in Freetown and the transition toward measurement, characterization, recovery testing and scalable environmental systems. Review the evidence record →
Young Sustainability Initiative is now legally incorporated in Sierra Leone and is building project, governance, evidence, technical-development and partnership systems around its environmental work. Governance & accountability →
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