Child protection
Psychosocial support
What is happening?Neither viewed as children in need of care, nor as adults who can take on responsibility, youth are falling through the cracks of humanitarian responses. They are regularly stigmatised as troublemakers and peace-spoilers, while, in reality...
....youth take great risks to drive change and build peace in their communities
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Key Project
Football Offers Youth in Colombia an Alternative to Violence
Why work with youth in conflict-affected settings?
Young people are affected by conflict in specific ways. Violence and displacement disrupt their transition to adulthood and diminish their ability to secure education and employment. It also severely limits them from establishing stable relationships and engaging in social and political decision-making processes. This is particularly dangerous as the next generation are key to shaping these processes and bringing about change and peace in their communities. Despite being side-lined, youth still hold the power to get their voice heard.
Our leadership and life skills project, SAHA, brings together youth in Lebanon through football and other sports
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'Framtidshoppet' provides mentorship to support refugee minors in finding employment and stability after graduation
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Amplifying Youth's Power and Agency
Our programmes support youth in amplifying their innate power and agency. We increase their ability to constructively shape their lives and those of their communities. We see our role as supporting and enhancing young people’s ability to take charge, while helping them to remove the barriers that prevent them from exercising this ability fully.
We support youth to build a platform where they can engage directly with civil society. From poverty to the climate crisis, we also help them identify key challenges in their communities and work within the limits of their environment to tackle them. We do this through a variety of activities such as mentorship and professional development, sport and art, research and advocacy as well as through the set-up of youth-led spaces.
Through music, dance and creative platforms, we support youth to claim their voice
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Entrepreneurship and vocational training programs help young people prepare for the job market or open a freelance business
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Strengths-Based Mentorship
Instead of being stigmatised and contained, young people should be supported to reach their full potential. Mentorship schemes provide individualised support to help youth work towards their personal and professional goals. Our strengths-based approach does exactly what it says on the tin - facilitating youth to identify and build on their inner strengths as well as capitalise on the opportunities around them.
