Putting Projects on Paper

by Laura Muller

Successful youth projects will be put to paper. Peace Child international and UN Habitat are working together to gather information from projects that are aimed to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Short summaries will be made to explain how youth associations are being developed. The publishing team is gathering the data during the Congress. Dana Podmolikova said, “We have being working on the book for several weeks and we already have some contributions. To us, the WYC is the best place to get the interviews and get exactly what we want.”
Every chapter of the book will be focused on one of the MDGs; however, other topics such as corruption, skills building and youth employment will also be written . The Peace Child international book will be presented in the UN meeting of Social Civil Societies on September the 25th.

The information gathered for the book will be used by the UN Habitat, to set the initiatives for the launch of the World Urban Forum 4. Doug Ragan said, “We are gathering stories and projects that can be found.” The WUF4 will fund young initiatives that involve entrepreneurial projects, housing, health and environmental issues. About $1 million US will be used for funding. The funding application will be launched on November in Nanjing, China. The first grant recipients will be announced in spring 2009.

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