Last updated by MYOuthspeak on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 00:26.
1 in 3 teenagers report knowing a friend or peer who has been hit, punched, kicked, slapped, choked or physically hurt by their partner. (Liz Claiborne Inc. study on teen dating abuse conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, February 2005.) At YouthSPEAK, we started the MYO (Mine, Yours, Ours): What’s Right In Relationships initiative to try and raise awareness, start conversations, and prevent teen dating violence for a generation of youth in our community of Bridgeport, CT.
Bridgeport has one of the highest child poverty rates for a city of its size.
Last updated by ETL2009 on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 17:29.
In areas where poverty and disease are rampant, child-headed families are becoming increasingly prevalent. This is especially true in under-developed areas of Africa, where HIV-AIDS continues to claim the lives of numerous adults. Armed with little education and few survival skills, youth as young twelve are left of provide for their entire families by their own faculties. They are literally robbed of a childhood. Additionally, while many foundations focus their efforts toward young children, very little funding is available to assist teenagers.
Last updated by vmars01 on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 16:05.
Children all over the world are being kept from obtaining an education. It is our responsibility to give them opportunity of getting one.
Last updated by sunshine.in.my.world on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 22:32.
A long-time advocate of women’s rights, I am aware that it is often the women of the underdeveloped world that suffer most. Our Haitian counterparts are habitually devalued, subjected to rape and abuse, and all-but-excluded from the workforce. For a woman to go unmarried past her early twenties or to be left a widow almost guarantees her a life of hand-to-mouth living.
For many single, Haitian women, the only way to provide for themselves and their children is to find manual labor working on local farms for what exchanges to about 55 cents a day.
Last updated by ciszak on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 20:11.
During the rainy season, the village of Sikoro is cut off from everything, including the health center, the middle school, the market and the road to the capital by a river. It floods an enormous area and makes it nearly impossible to access these sites even in the direst of situations. This has an enormous impact on health, development and economy in the village.
Last updated by dlrkddlr on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:13.
People who can't visit their family because of their money. And we are trying to help them to visit them
Last updated by LoveHDuff on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:42.
Hilary Duff I want to help in everything aga by far in this campaign apart gusta.Es me something nice
Last updated by LoveHDuff on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:34.
Hilary Duff I want to help in everything aga by far in this campaign apart gusta.Es me something nice
Last updated by avish90 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:32.
the problem i'm trying to solve is to get people there rights as well as to help others see that being gay is okay
Last updated by mixonks on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 16:35.
There are several leadership programs for students to be involved in, but what isnt addressed at many universities is the mere fact that their diversity organizations are not funded or supported. There are times when budgets are cut, Cultural deparments are dismissed; and also at times students of cultural organizations may ask for small funding to host an event of awareness for the university and simply get ignored, or rejected.
