Mexico City, August 5, 2024 – After a process of evaluation and selection by an international jury of youth and experts, three social transformation projects by young people and youth collectives in Mexico received seed capital of USD 10,000 from the UNESCO and Nestlé pilot program for the Latin America and Caribbean region: Impulso Joven – Because Youth Matters.
Young people, particularly young women, are systematically more exposed to contexts of inequality, especially in the most unequal regions: Latin America and the Caribbean. The Inter-American Development Bank estimates that the richest 10% has an average of 12 times higher income than the poorest 10%. However, young people continue to demonstrate their capacity to transform their communities in pursuit of global change, and the world must avoid losing these great opportunities.
The UN estimates that “digital technologies and data contribute to at least 70% of the 169 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals while potentially reducing the cost of achieving these goals by up to 55 trillion.” In these fields, young people are crucial, and the 2024 theme of the International Youth Day (August 12) is “From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development.”
UNESCO’s Global Youth Grant Scheme programme encompasses various areas of the Organization’s expertise and resources to support young people worldwide with budgeting, training opportunities, and mentorship to strengthen socially impactful actions. One of its outcomes is Impulso Joven.
Only 20 projects were selected for Impulso Joven from 900 proposals by youth organizations and young people aged 18 to 29 from Latin America and the Caribbean. Three of the 20 initiatives were from Mexico: “Earth-IoT: Conectando el campo,” corresponding to the thematic area of Climate Action and Sustainability; “The illness nobody talks about in the village,” and “Reading my emotions: emotional education for migrant children at Mexico-USA Border,” both focused on the area of Mental Health and Well-being.
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Publish date : 2024-08-05 10:09:00
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