Posts tagged with "youth"

Find stories about:

Now more than ever we have a global responsibility to advance the understanding of financial rights and responsibilities among our young people. Building on our work in education and youth...

Posted on December 8, 2011 - in Media Development, Youth
Tags:

Mariam Jachvadze, a student at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs’ Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management, said that IREX’s recent Media Innovation Camp in Georgia...

Newly released IREX audience research shows that while Iraqis continue to rely on television as their primary source for news and information, social media and mobile devices play an important...

Posted on November 22, 2011 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Conflict Resolution, Youth
Tags:
Ingenzi Youth Group

When 24-year-old Rwandan youth leader John Bosco Gakwenza first approached his fellow members of Ingenzi youth group about organizing reconciliation dialogues with perpetrators of the 1994...

Posted on November 22, 2011 - Betsy Engebretson in Education, Youth
Tags:

“How much influence do you believe you have on youth?” asked the trainer at the third session of IREX’s Positive Youth Development (PYD) Course. The participants lined up...

FA Budget Pie

The Thanksgiving holiday in America gives us all a chance to reflect on gratitude, on generosity, and on reaching out to those in need.  As we Americans from every background recall our...

Posted on November 18, 2011 - in Conflict Resolution, Gender, Youth
Tags:

In Chorku, a small community in the Isfara district along Tajikistan’s border with Kyrgyzstan, Robiya is changing attitudes about girls’ education. In this area, only 42% of girls...

Posted on November 16, 2011 - in International Education, Education, Youth
Tags:
Nicolas Kirschman hosts Zina Kabylbek kyzy from Tech Age Girls

The seniors at Webster Groves High School in St Louis, Missouri begin every online project...

2011 IREX Annual Report

Our work today reaches and helps more people than ever before in our history. These stories highlight just a handful of the 300,000 people IREX has helped this year.