Youth Engagement & Activism Hub (YEAH)
Friends of the Earth Malta ·Malta
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Young people today live with increasing social and economic inequalities and poverty and are exposed to environmental and social justice issues. Many of the climate and environmental challenges create a disproportionately higher burden on disadvantaged groups. Disadvantaged communities are also under-represented and do not participate in the decision-making process.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">In Malta, there are young people who do engage in democratic processes to shape the future they want, but many are still left behind. Young people can feel alienated and this alienation further deepens with limited opportunities for active citizenship.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">This project provides a platform for more inclusive democratic and civic youth engagement in decision-making by creating a structure to engage marginalised youth in intersectional cooperation for development of joint actions towards a socially just and ecologically fair future.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The project will create a Youth Hub that offers a recreational environment through which a youth worker can work with 16- to 25-year-olds to come up with initiatives that enhance their potential. The Youth Hub will also engage in various community activities. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">A safe space will be created by the young people involved to ensure that all youths have an equal voice regardless of gender, race, religion, beliefs, sexual orientation, disability, social and economic backgrounds.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">The specific objectives of the projects are: to build competencies of disadvantaged young people using project-based and experiential learning around environmental and social justice topics; to enable young people to create local, decentralised action collectively in their own neighbourhoods and be agents of positive change; and, to empower youth to take part in structured political discussions.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">The main beneficiaries of this project will be young people from the disadvantaged and underrepresented areas of Marsa, Floriana and Hamrun.</span></span></span></p>
Project partners
- Generation Change? Youth for Better Tomorrow Project partner· Malta