Deprived of millions of people taken from their mother land against their will during the Slavery, and of the main natural resources by more than 3 centuries of colonization, Africa is experiencing these last decades, a deep crisis, with several symptoms such as famine, drought, wars in addition to diverse diseases, high rate of unemployment and poverty.

In fact, unemployment and poverty are considered, rightfully, as the extreme forms of social marginalization. It can be expressed by the impossibility of satisfying the primary needs such as feeding, clothing, or achieving basic social welfare related to health, education, access to a safe environment, to information and to a properly remunerated job.

Marginality results in a late entrance of young people in adult life, or psychological disturbances among which the slightest are the feeling to be useless and to have an uncertain future. It is also the source of degrading and numerous deviances (alcoholism, drug abuse, delinquency), or imbalance (rural exodus, immigration or even social explosion)

 So, the problems of unemployment, and in a more global way, those of youth integration, present a particular urgency for action.

Actually, it is established that, at the time Northern countries try to take up the challenge of their aging population, developing countries, with an estimated number of 1.3 billion young people, and particularly those from Sub Saharan Africa, should take advantage of their “demographic wealth”.

So, developing countries should find a way to promote more and better quality jobs for young people and handle other social issues related to food, housing, education, health, information, environment… These issues are as well faced in northern countries such as the United States.

Therefore, Ways Out Of Misery – Africa Corporation “WOOM – Africa” intends to bring a significant contribution. While the interest will be centered in the development of rural populations and low-income groups of Africa’s urban areas, northern community’s issues will also be considered and some activities will take place out of Africa, in the United States for example.