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Young People

The Youth Workshop is a collective international network created to identify and react to the challenges the young people are confronted to in the whole world. On the struggle against injustice, the exchange of innovating ideas and points of view that can contribute to the positive and sustainable change in our societies, the Youth Workshop strives to give a support and encourage young people to talk by themselves. The Youth Workshop is founded on only one premisse - that young people have a great force and will to bring changes and that to accomplish it they must benefit from the possibility to play an important part in the creation of better life conditions for themselves, their communities and society in general.

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Experience of Telephone of Trust
:: Elena Vybornova :: March 2007 ::

Information on drugs for Russian teenagers Drug-using is the most difficult social problem among youth in the post-soviet Russia period. Officially, the number of teenagers using drugs has risen rapidly since 1992 to 2001 increasing by 31 times. Russia is facing an explosive growth in drug consumption and trade. According to the Russian Interior Ministry's statistics, the number of drug seizures more than tripled between 1990 and 1999, reaching almost 66 tons in 1999. Between 2.5 and 3 million people in Russia, or about 2 percent of its population, regularly or occasionally take drugs (...)

Youth mobilisation for self-reliance in East and Southern Africa
:: Abel Isoh :: March 2007 ::

Contribution of the International Movement of Catholic Agriculture and Rural Youth in rural development The International Movement of Catholic Agriculture and Rural Youth (Mijarc) is a movement of rural youths covering four continents, namely: Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Although it covers almost the whole world, my focus for its contribution to rural development is on East and Southern African region. Mijarc was recommended in 1939 by Pope Pius VI in Europe. It was a renovation from Father Joseph Gadjen's Young Farmers, founded ten years earlier (1929). Mijarc membership is (...)

International Youth Parliament
:: Véronique RIOUFOL :: Dudu Rombauer :: Rajendra Mulmi :: September 2002 ::

The International Youth Parliament, held in Sydney from October 19-28, gathered over 240 young people from about 150 countries. This event was the fruit of an initiative of Brett Solomon, from Oxfam - Australia and co-ordinator of the Youth Workshop for Australia-Pacific. It aimed at having the participants seek youthful solutions for the challenges they face world-wide in 3 areas: "breaking the cycle of poverty", "youth in conflict" and "cultural activism". The focus of the Parliament was (...)

The Asian Youth Assembly :: September 2002 ::

First Meeting of the Young Committed People in the Building of a New Society :: September 2001 ::

Villa Constitucion, Santa Fe, Argentina, October 21-22, 2000 The meeting was organised by CTERA, AMSAFE Villa Constitución and CTA Villa Constitución, and was supported by the Alliance for a Responsible and United World. It assembled 230 young people between 16 and 28 years old from the whole country. The objective was to put forward opportunities in order to exchange experiences, debate, reflect and participate. This led to the building of alternatives against the present economical and social model, from the view of the young people. It was carried out in workshops according to the (...)

Comunità e quartiere : cultural projects for young people - progetti culturali per i giovani
:: Innovations et Réseaux pour le Développement :: June 1993 ::

Comunita' e Quartiere was founded in 1981. Its original members have trained with Firas, a Catholic training centre for educators. They joined forces with a group of active people promoting social projects within the Parella (Turio)local community. At present, Comunita' e Quartiere has a staff of 4 educators working 36 hours a week and one educator working 26 hours a week. They are all members of the cooperative along with 13 other people. The main objectives are: to promote educational projects; to stimulate voluntary work to integrate underprivileged people; to open and strengthen (...)

Valle Verde: job opportunities for disabled and young people :: June 1993 ::

Valle Verde Cooperative was founded in 1983. It has 26 female and 10 male members. Its objective is the creation of non-alienating job conditionsfor disabled and marginalised people, adopting a non-profit approach. To this purpose it promotes a number of projects in the following fields: ecological work for the management and protection of lakes, rivers, the countryside and mountain paths, roads and public and private green areas; reforestation and water management; environment and agricultural educational activities aimed at young people and new agricultural projects; cleaning services (...)

Il Glicine: ecological work and job opportunities for young people
:: Luca Davico :: June 1993 ::

Il Glicine was founded in 1986. It has 46 members. Five of them are working for the cooperative along with two other people employed by the cooperative.All workers are young, formally marginalised people. In fact Il Glicine is an attempt of a number of families to create job opportunities in the field of ecological work: maintainance of parks and gardens and growing of plants and flowers. In 1988 the municipali ty (comune)of Buccinasco gave Il Glicine a former rubbish dump measuring 4.000 m2. Il Glicine turned it into a park and later developed it, growing plants and flowers to sell to (...)

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