Youth

Timor-Leste has a high youth unemployment rate and addressing this challenge requires creativity within a multi-faceted approach. Access to financing, education, and further investments such as infrastructure, economic diversification, and promoting small and medium-sized enterprises will improve the economic landscape and offer more opportunities to young Timorese to stay and help grow the nation.

Explore the transformative power of permaculture in Timor-Leste, where resilience, self-sufficiency, and ecological awareness thrive. Discover how permaculture is reshaping education, empowering youth, and shifting the nation away from international aid dependency. This article brings on a journey through permaculture youth camps, where hands-on learning connects minds to the land.

From Hong Kong to Chile to Uganda, three separate young women are fighting for a better tomorrow. The movie ‘Dear Future Children’ by young filmmakers is not only an inspiring documentary about young activism but also a call to action for those who are older – to remember their idealism in youth and to listen to the current younger generation wanting to be heard.