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Youth Solutions Summit 2025


November 2-5,2025, Lagos, Nigeria

In collaboration with Suburbancares/Suburban Health Care Initiative, Nigeria, Faith Has Feet invite you to be part of a powerful transformative 3-day gathering that will ignite the future of Nigeria’s youth. The First Youth Solutions Summit is not just an event—it’s a call to action for youth leaders, mentors, educators, and child advocates to unite in building a generation equipped to lead with purpose.

Through immersive skills training, dynamic mentorship, and innovative leadership development, this summit will set the stage to fuel economic growth, strengthen resilience, and spark lasting social transformation. Together, we will empower young Nigerians to rise above adversity, start building meaningful careers, uplift their communities, and become the changemakers their country—and the world—needs now more than ever.

Be there. Be inspired. Be part of the solution.

About Our Mission

Faith Has Feet   is a 501(c)(3) interfaith human rights organization advancing youth empowerment and community resilience across America, Africa, Jamaica, and the wider Caribbean Diaspora. We equip young people and community leaders with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to heal from childhood trauma and unlock their potential. Through education, collaboration, and hands-on skills training, we cultivate life-ready, business-savvy youth prepared to build prosperous futures. Rooted in faith and driven by impact, our mission aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—breaking cycles of poverty, fostering inclusive education, and creating pathways to decent work and economic growth. Starting in Nigeria, where the need and opportunity are greatest, we are empowering youth to become the next generation of ethical leaders, innovators, and changemakers who will transform their communities and their nation. FAITH HAS FEET walks boldly with underserved communities to ignite justice, expand opportunity, and drive lasting change.


​OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

"In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." James 2:17 (NIV)

“But they who believe and do righteous deeds – those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide therein eternally.”

— Qur’an 2:82

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Our Causes

Safeguarding Education


Empowerment Through Learning

Children are the foundation of our future. Our educational programs empower children, youth and the community with the knowledge, skills and awareness to protect themselves and others from violence, creating a safer community for all.

Entrepreneurship


Fostering Innovation

We support young entrepreneurs by offering resources, mentorship, and guidance to turn their ideas into successful ventures. Our goal is to nurture creativity and drive economic growth within communities.

Youth Development Group


Empowering Youth to Build a Brighter Future

In the heart of Jamaica, a transformative initiative has taken root, offering a lifeline to young men who have found themselves on the streets. The Youth Development Group was formed with a singular mission: to provide a sustainable alternative to life on the streets of Jamaica, by empowering these young men with the tools and opportunities they need to build a brighter future.

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Solving Food Insecurity


Fighting Hunger

No one need go hungry. We are passionate about implementing community-driven initiatives to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious food, addressing hunger and promoting well-being. Urban gardens, container gardens, community gardens, farm to table programs, food education, distribution, land management... we've got our pulse on what's needed to fight hunger.

Social & Environmental Justice


Advocates for Change

Engaging youth in meaningful discussions and actions to promote social and environmental justice, empowering them to be agents of change.

Community Building


Caring for Each Other

Let's make caring for each other a way of life. By nurturing strong communities, we can cultivate environments filled with mutual support, innovation, and resilience. Let's create spaces where knowledge, skills, tools and hope are shared for the benefit of all. When one community flourishes, we all flourish.

Blog

by Admin 27 August 2025
When Pope Francis assumed the papacy in 2013, he was hailed as a reformer. He opened conversations about mercy, environmental justice, and poverty. Yet for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, which includes me - his papacy was marked by contradiction — moments of hope undercut by institutional protectionism and silence. It meant his successor took office with much to do on this most crucial of issues for the Roman Catholic Church.
A man is giving a speech in front of a crowd of people in a church.
by Denise Buchanan 5 June 2025
Denise Buchanan, Ph.D. , Founder, Faith Has Feet and Member of the Brave Movement As a Jamaican survivor of clergy sexual abuse, I write this not only from the place of deep personal pain, but from a position of global purpose. I am the Founder and CEO of Faith Has Feet, an international organization on a mission to create community-based solutions that combine grassroots advocacy, survivor leadership, and policy reform to safeguard children from sexual violence wherever they may live, learn, or worship. We are not only advocating but building avenues to justice, healing, and protection for every child. To date, we have 12,000 youth engaged in Nigeria on a mission to heal and end childhood sexual violence. World leaders will gather in Canada for the 2025 G7 Summit this June, amid immense global uncertainty. The agenda includes critical global priorities: peace and security, economic stability, climate change, digital transformation, and democracy. And yet, absent from this list is one of the most pervasive and devastating human rights violations of our time: child sexual violence. SEE MORE HERE 
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by Denise Buchanan 5 June 2025
I know that the Roman Catholic Church has failed historically to prevent and to root out child sexual violence within its own ranks. I am a Jamaican survivor of such abuse by a priest. Francis spent much of his papacy issuing apologies for clerical sex abuse . His successor must do more. The 135 cardinal electors must ensure the church’s next leader is committed to a public position of zero tolerance of abuse by any of its members. Though a 2021 update to canon law declared sexual abuse criminal and not merely a moral offense, it only imposes certain penalties “where the case calls for it.” The next pope must update canon law to adopt a zero-tolerance law given that sexual abuse is a grave crime against the life, dignity and freedom of victims. It must be applied without exception, and in sexual abuse cases, the church must release sufficient information to demonstrate compliance with these rules. He must establish an independent compliance agency to investigate, document and publicly identify people of authority in the church who contributed — through their negligence or intentional acts — to concealing abusive priests. This conclave must select a new pope with the commitment — and the record — to show he has never and will never tolerate the abuse of children within the church, nor the secrecy that enabled it. We need more than apologies; we need change. Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/06/francis-catholics-pope-trump-ai-vance/ Denise Buchanan, PhD. , Los AngelesThe writer is the CEO, Faith Has Feet, and a member of the Brave Movement.
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