Youth Power: Supporting young changemakers and their initiatives to spark positive impact
SOS Children's Villages InternationalWhat is it?
Young people worldwide have become powerful catalysts for solving our most pressing problems. Youth from the SOS Children’s Villages are not different. Le Huynh Duc and 1509 other Youth Power participants from the SOS Children’s Villages programmes are creating solutions through youth-led initiatives that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. What makes Youth Power unique is the parallel approach to empowering young people with a changemaker mindset while supporting their youth workers to become changemaker enablers.
HIGHLIGHTS
Over the last four years, Youth Power has enabled 1.510 changemakers to provide services to over 32,378 people in over 110 communities - and - revealed a powerful truth: when we create spaces championing young people’s unfiltered voices and lived experiences, they gain the confidence to navigate the barriers they face. When we invest in young people’s ability to use their voices and lived experiences to become changemakers, we foster a new generation of leaders committed to achieving the SDGs for a more hopeful future.