After studying at the St Nicholas Anglican Secondary School in the Solomon Islands, Lawrence Nodua was offered a place on the Commonwealth Youth Programme’s course in Youth Development Work. This diploma is taken by recent school leavers, police officers, government and NGO employees and youth workers. As well as equipping them with the knowledge on …

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Youths in Malawi, like many African countries, face a lot of challenges with the major ones being poverty, HIV/AIDS and unemployment. Limited social and economic opportunities for young people has led to an increase in number of young women aged between 13 -25 indulging into commercial sex. This puts them at high risk of catching …

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From an early age, Latoya Giles and Shela Singh were close friends. This friendship remained throughout their school years, when they would often share dreams of what they would do when they grew up. It was only a few years after they both left school, that their friendship and Shela’s future dreams were dealt a …

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An HIV-positive young woman describes her work as a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador for Positive Living Pooja Thakur, 27, is a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador for Positive Living (YAPL). She was diagnosed with HIV in her early twenties soon after she lost her husband to the disease. She is one of the estimated 2.27 million people currently …

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‘Your attitudes and leadership consistency will be pivotal’ — Deputy Secretary-General It was a day for ceremony and celebration in Chandigarh yesterday (weds) as the Commonwealth’s newly-elected youth leadership took their oaths in an hour-long Installation Ceremony Presided over by the Deputy Secretary-General Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba. On Tuesday, at a special Youth Leaders’ Conference in the …

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2010 is the United Nations’ Year of Youth and to honour the occasion, the Commonwealth Youth Programme in Honiara is giving Pacific youth a voice by actively seeking young people’s ideas. click to listen to the interview

2010 is the United Nations’ Year of Youth and to honour the occasion, the Commonwealth Youth Programme in Honiara is giving Pacific youth a voice by actively seeking young people’s ideas. click to listen to the interview

Representatives of the country’s Youths to the Commonwealth Youth Conference in India departed the country this afternoon. On Monday next week, 9 young people from Commonwealth Pacific Countries will unite with other youths from the Africa, Asia and the Caribbean regions. Click to watch the video interview with the Regional Director of the Commonwealth Youth …

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A Commonwealth citizen is generally described as a person, who is a national of any country within the Commonwealth of Nations. Under this organization, these nations agree to support the values and principles of the Commonwealth which addresses key matters such as democracy, equality, as well as access to health and education. This simple description …

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In 2004, Uganda’s Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development created the National OVC Policy, aimed at improving the quality of life for poor and vulnerable children. However, despite many efforts to improve the circumstances of vulnerable children in Uganda, policymakers, donors, and program managers still lack comprehensive and up-to-date information about their numbers, geographic …

Protecting Hope: Situation Analysis of Vulnerable Children in Uganda Read More »