A Youthful World: Positioning Youth to Change the World

As the International Year of Youth begins, ChildFund has a lot of momentum already in its intensified focus on youth, providing civic engagement and leadership programs, livelihood training, and reproductive health education and services. In ChildFund programs and partnerships all over the world, young people are discovering and developing new capacities — changing themselves, changing their communities and positioning themselves to change the world.

Learn more about the United Nations’ International Year of Youth, August 2010-2011.

Watch youth leaders in the Philippines share their challenges.

Discover how young people in Zambia mobilized and made their community safer.

See how youth reporters in Ecuador present their world through their eyes.

Learn how a youth group in Dominica created an Internet café for themselves and their community.