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MYAN aims to connect you with a wide range of organizations and resources on this topic. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact MYAN.
Who's Who in Maine
Maine Ghana Network
www.maineghanayouth.org
The Maine Ghana Youth Network is a local-global organization working to educate, empower, and inspire youth in Maine and West Africa. In the impoverished Ghanaian neighborhood of Kissehman, they provide desperately needed resources and educational opportunities, meeting children’s basic needs while encouraging them to learn and grow. In Maine, they work with schools, organizations, and youth groups to facilitate exciting cross-cultural exchange. These programs connect young people to the local and global community, and help develop their full potential as tomorrow’s creative, thoughtful leaders.
Seeds of Peace
http://www.seedsofpeace.org/
Founded in 1993, Seeds of Peace is dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. Seeds of Peace International Camp is based in Maine.
Print Resources
World Youth Report 2007 (United Nations).
The World Youth Report 2007 examines the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. The report explores major issues of concern to youth development, including employment, education, health, poverty and violence. At the same time, it highlights youth as a positive force for development and provides recommendations for supporting their essential contributions.
Web Resources
PeaceJam Northeast
www.NextGenLeaders.org
The PeaceJam Foundation offers education programs based on the lives and works of leading Nobel Peace Prize winners who share their spirit, skills and wisdom with youth around the world. Through learning about the inspirational stories of these master-peacemakers and then spending time with them, youth become committed to positive change in themselves, and being a force for change in their communities and the world. Youth at the United Nations
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/index.html
The focal point within the United Nations system on matters relating to youth issues is the Programme on Youth, in the Division for Social Policy and Development, United Nations Department of Economic and social Affairs. It has been set up to: enhance awareness of the global situation of youth and increase recognition of the rights and aspirations of youth; promote national youth policies, national youth coordinating mechanisms and national youth programmes of action as integral parts of social and economic development, in cooperation with both governmental and non-governmental organizations; and strengthen the participation of youth in decision-making processes at all levels in order to increase their impact on national development and international cooperation.
