This project provides seed grants for young people as well as online support, workshops and gatherings, to help young people develop their projects in order to adress social changes.
In Brazil millions of young people are not working or studying. 57% of Brazilian youth believe they can change the world, but only 22% of them actually do some social work in their neighborhood or community. 85% of Brazilian youth do not have any type of direct participation in their community. Youth is seen as vulnerable, dangerous and frequently is a subject of repression. YV supports young people to generate solutions to social problems, by helping them lead and launch their own venture.
YV supports youth by helping them address social issues in their communities. Youth form teams and create sustainable action plans that must be approved by a panel. Then, they receive seed money and technical support to start their Venture Team.
YV is dramatically increasing the proportion of changemakers in the world by effectively reaching youth and providing them the opportunity to see their own potential, develop skills, creating an 'everyone a changemaker world'.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
