Education

CLIMATE CRISIS

Tree planting advocates promote green jobs as they restore barren landscape

June 5 2023 - 11 million people in Ethiopia face food insecurity due to increasingly severe droughts. Mefisa and Meseret take action by planting trees and educating their community about the climate crisis.

YouthCan!

A vision for the future

June 1 2023 - Twelve young people from around the world traveled to Germany in May 2023 to take the stage at the 4th Global YouthCan! Conference. 150 stakeholders, including YouthCan! participants, corporate partners and experts, met in Bonn to form a common vision for the future of the programme.

Youth employability

More than 280 million youth are not employed nor in education

June 24 2022 - In this interview, Susana Puerto-Gonzalez, Youth Employment Specialist at the ILO, explains how COVID-19 has affected young people in the world of work.

West Africa

Young women at the African Girls' Summit call for the elimination of harmful practices

December 21 2021 - Grls and young women from SOS Children’s Villages programmes in West Arfica gathered to ensure their voices are heard during the 3rd African Girls Summit.

Guinea-Bissau

A tale of girl power

July 6 2021 - At 13, Apili is in the seventh grade, the first year of high school. This is quite unusual as, in Guinea-Bissau, it is common for girls to lag behind, especially in remote communities where they have to stay at home to help their families.

Florida

Racism is our reality

February 18 2021 - For seven years, Jeffrey Jackson has been a foster father in the SOS Children’s Village Coconut Creek, Florida. In this interview, he talks about how it feels to be raising four Black teenagers in a country which is torn apart by racism.