Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. Youth empowerment aims to improve quality of life. Youth empowerment is achieved through participation in youth empowerment programs. However, scholars argue that children’s rights implementation should go beyond learning about formal rights and procedures to give birth to a concrete experience of rights. There are numerous models that youth empowerment programs use that help youth achieve empowerment. A variety of youth empowerment initiatives are underway around the world. These programs can be through non-profit organizations, government organizations, schools, or private organizations.Empowerment should be considered as a process and also a tool and to increase the meaningfulness of the empowerment work with changes in power relations is highly needed. Thus, empowering the agency will not only affect if the relevant structures in the power relations which are still continuing to be available in the society. Considering power structure as an iceberg that has visible and invisible sides, visible sides indicate the formal parts of power as institutions, authorities, laws, and rules and invisible sides indicate the informal pars of power as socialized norms, discourses, and cultural practices. Empowerment work deals with that iceberg and deconstructs and equips individuals to deal with visible and invisible power groups. Considering the youth as an experience and the empowerment as a tool for increasing the capacities of young people and make them able to act and participate and considering youth workers participation to that process and increasing the capacities of youth workers in that field of work would increase the participation of young people and creation of strategies in this field has importance to promote participation and inclusion of young people in economical, social and political life. The project aimed to strengthen the competence of young people to increase. their participation through using empowerment strategies in their daily lives. An objective of the project was for volunteers from Turkey and Europe to work side by side with people directly affected by poverty in Africa. As a collaborative group of local and international activists, our volunteers rised to the challenge of poverty and helped the development of the youth in Uganda through volunteering activities. Besides that, the Ugandan youth participated in Actions held in Turkey and Uganda and it increased the understanding of poverty among young people and its implications. Through the project, the capacities of youth workers from participating countries concerning the empowerment strategies and usage of empowerment tools in their daily work. On the other hand, the Ugandan partners capacity is increased relatively due to implemented activities by the volunteers during their stay.The project consisted of European Voluntary Service in Kampala, Uganda for 3 months for 24 young people coming from Spain, Turkey and Romania, Youth Exchange for 24 people in Turkey with participants from Turkey, Uganda, Spain and Romania. As a complimentary activity, training activity with 20 people coming from Turkey, Uganda, Spain and Romania will which took place in Kampala,Uganda.