How are you coping? How are you responding? How are you and your networks getting through this pandemic together? These are some of the questions we discussed on International Youth Day, at our 9th Youth Power Solidarity Meetup, with more than 100 young people attending from over 30 countries across Latin America, Asia, Africa, and …
Empowering silenced civil society voices. “We have always done our work at a local level without thinking of broadening our working relations but through the coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that Restless Development created we have learned that together we can do more.“ – Lebo, Programmes Assistant, Yomelela Community Support Organisation, South Africa Over …
With the support of Restless Development, young volunteers have set-up call-centres in six rural districts of Uganda to support communities to report cases of gender-based violence and economic exclusion during the lockdown.
In Sierra Leone, one in 17 mothers face a lifetime risk of dying while giving birth. In Sierra Leone, young people are playing a key role in the country’s COVID-19 response, with Restless Development supporting 184 young volunteers on the UK Aid funded ‘Unite for Save Lives nar Salone’ programme to respond to the pandemic in every …
This International Youth Day we want to recognise young people’s resilience in the face of this pandemic, how they’ve coped, how they’ve responded and how they keep adapting to uncertainty in their lives.
As we celebrate this year’s International Youth Day, we find ourselves living in a new era of incredible resilience. Young people everywhere have been showing their resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting not just themselves but their communities too. These four stories of young people from the UK, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and …
This International Youth Day we want to recognise young people’s resilience in the face of this pandemic, and how so many have taken action to help their communities respond and recover. This is Nyasha’s story. Driving community-led change during COVID-19. Nyasha, 24, is from Ushewokunze suburb, in the southern area of Harare, Zimbabwe. Her community has no health …
This is an introductory booklet on Covid-19 created under a joint partnership with the National Youth Council and UK Aid.
The panel discussion was organized and hosted by Youth Advocacy Nepal as a part of a 3 day-long series of events under the theme “Youth Engagement for Global Action”