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He’s a Computer Engineer from India Fighting Gender-Based Violence
This blog post is part of a series that explores the role of IYF’s YouthActionNet® fellows in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).“I identify as a feminist, and I identify as a man,...
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4 Ways Life Skills Training Changed 2 Young Women in Kazakhstan
Around the world, IYF has seen the many specific ways Passport to Success® (PTS) life skills training can alter the day-to-day lives and career paths of participants. I live and work in Kazakhstan, and...
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She’s Training Women & Youth to Build Climate Resilient Communities
This blog post is part of a series that explores the role of IYF’s YouthActionNet® fellows in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The Himalayan region of Nepal conjures up images of...
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STEM, Life Skills & Fear of Failure in Kazakhstan
Setbacks frustrate any scientist, and the experience of creating three unsuccessful prototypes for a solar tracker certainly fazed 17-year-old Alibek from Atyrau, Kazakhstan. He says that with each...
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Gaining 21st Century Work Skills in Kazakhstan
“There are times in life when we need to allow others to give us a hand,” says 19-year-old Amina Yelemessova, “and other times when we need to step forward and help others.” Amina, an ambitious young...
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Learning for Life: 2016 IYF Annual Report
Despite a widening skills gap and the ever-changing demands of the labor market, young people today remain optimistic. Inspired by the future possibilities but firmly grounded in the reality of the...
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The 2017 Global Youth Wellbeing Index Launches
While the world is seeing the largest youth cohort in history, a lack of youth-centric data has left opportunities unfulfilled and too many young people's potential unrealized. The 2017 Global Youth...
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How to Understand & Advance Youth Wellbeing
Being young has never been easy, and lack of opportunity makes this critical transitional time even more challenging for too many of today’s 1.8 billion 15 to 29-year-olds. Mounting stress, persistent...
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5 Ways to Advance Youth Economic Opportunities
Throughout the world, young people contribute their ideas and energy by starting businesses, leading organizations, volunteering, and addressing some of the biggest global problems. However, far too...
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Explore the 2017 Global Youth Wellbeing Index Website
While youth demonstrate their power and promise every day, for too long a lack of cohesive youth-centric data has created challenges and barriers to progress. Launched in September, the 2017 Global...
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Meet the Young Team in Kazakhstan Advancing STEM Education
The following post is part of a series highlighting the work being done in IYF’s field offices around the globe to empower youth.Millennials—individuals born between 1980 and 2000—currently account for...
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Chinese Youth & Adults Grow Together Through Life Skills Training
Shao Zhizeng—or Rain, as he is called—connects deeply with the youth he teaches, because his story is similar to theirs. Now Dean of Admissions, student counselor, and a teacher at BN Vocational School...
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4 Indirect Impacts of Life Skills Training in Kazakhstan
Akmoldir is 18 and building a laser to the moon, and Alibek, 17 years old, is working on a robotic solar tracker. Reading about the hands-on experience and work of participants in Zangar, in...
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In Kazakhstan, Two Young Women Build a Future in STEM
Around the world, women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. However, change is happening at the individual level. In Kazakhstan, Asylai Koszhanova...
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How Youth are Exceeding Employer Expectations in Indonesia
Indonesia is home to a demographic bonus—a population of working age people exceeding that of children and the elderly—yet suffers from higher youth unemployment rates than most other countries in the...
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3 Takeaways from a STEAM Festival in Kazakhstan
To some, STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—might sound difficult, boring, or simply unfamiliar. Through the Zangar initiative in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, we've set out to support young...
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Honor Killings in Pakistan are Ego Killings, Says Former IYF Board Member
Last week, Khalida Brohi joined NPR's Terry Gross to discuss her new memoir, "I Should Have Honor." In the interview, the former IYF board member (2015-2017) who is also a YouthActionNet® Laureate...
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