When this 30-year-old Program Director was assembling a team for a new IYF initiative in Kazakhstan, age wasn't necessarily a criterion.
On International Youth Day, the world's young people share their ideas and solutions for pressing global challenges.
With every new place I visit, I find a new and stimulating team of young professionals who will be trained as youth-to-youth facilitators, mentors, and counselors. And with every new team, the same faces come to my mind: the young people that started it all, back in 2011 in Ciudad Juarez.
“Empowering youth to reach their goals is rewarding and inspiring,” says Mohamed Temar of his role as a volunteer life skills trainer in Saïda, a city in northwest Algeria.
