ForgottenDiaries.org

About Us

Youth Action for Change (YAC) will host and manage ‘Forgotten Diaries”. YAC is an award winning global, youth-led organisation inspiring and empowering young people worldwide to become active change makers in their own communities. YAC is legally registered as a non-profit organisation, is apolitical, non-confessional and has about 1,200 members in over 140 countries worldwide.

At YAC we strive to empower young change makers worldwide, providing them with tools and encouraging them to tackle the issues affecting them, their peers and their communities so as to be ‘the change they want to see in the world’.

YAC has been the first organisation of this kind, employing the peer-to-peer methodology to offer young people free online courses and other educational activities on a vast array of subjects - including Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Millennium Development Goals, Media for Change, Social Leadership and many more - to help them tackle the matters affecting them and the world at large.

Honours and Achievements

Because of its groundbreaking initiatives, YAC has received several praises and awards from organisations the likes:

The United Nations
The World Bank (World Development Report 2007)
Oxfam IYP (Best Practice for Youth Empowerment)
Ashoka Foundation (Changemaker of the Month)
Nokia (Youth Action Net Award), and,
The Council of Europe (World Aware Education Award)

YAC has appeared in countless articles, reports, radio and television programs (Associated Press, several UN and World Bank publications, OneWorld, Development Gateway, La Repubblica, Il Giorno, RAI International, SBS Radio and an upcoming documentary by the WWF). YAC has also delivered workshops in Europe and the US for the UN, the Council of Europe, the Province of Pesaro and OSCE and the US Congress-sponsored Global Young Leaders Conference.

YAC is part of the UN-DESD (Decade of Education for Sustainable Development), UN-GAID (Global Alliance of ICTs and Development, where it’s a founding partner of the Committee on ‘Youth Social Technopreneurship’ and the only European organisation to be present) , the Anna Lindh Foundation for Euro-Mediterranean Intercultural Dialogue and ANPED.

For further information, please visit www.youthactionforchange.org