Parent Organisation
Youth Action for Change (YAC) hosts and manages ‘Forgotten Diaries”. Youth Action for Change (YAC) is an award winning, innovative international youth run non-profit organization which equips, inspires and empowers young people with knowledge and skills that enable them to directly get involved in improving their communities livelihoods.
YAC is legally registered as a non-profit organisation, is apolitical, non-confessional and has about 2,000 members in over 140 countries worldwide.
YAC employs a ‘leveraged impact’ model. We believe that young people have enormous untapped potential and can be very effective in instigating positive change in their communities. Our work involves training and supporting young people so that they are empowered to tackle the issues affecting them, their peers and their communities then instigate positive community development projects and train their peers on vital development issues.
YAC is 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 including:
- 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
