Conflict-affected regions in Eastern Ukraine are facing high unemployment rates, especially among young people. There are very few employment opportunities and, at the same time, young people are less prepared for today’s work and business environment. Terre des hommes aims to increase the participation of youth in the Ukrainian economy by strengthening vocational education and training, developing youths’ digital and entrepreneurial skills, and improving their employability.

Through its YOUNG CITIZENS project, Terre des hommes (Tdh) supports young people to be active in their communities by enhancing their interaction with stakeholders and decision-makers at local and regional level and by empowering them to lead their communication campaigns and collaborative initiatives.

The results and findings of the “Life Under Coronavirus” survey will be disclosed during a virtual eventon December 9, 2020, 14:00 CET in the presence of our partners, stakeholders, decision makers, as well as children and young people.

Whether they are under lockdown and out of school, in refugee camps or in crowded villages, detained, or living on the streets, institutionalized or on the move, children and young people have the right to be heard. But their views are hardly ever sought out by decision-makers and their ideas are rarely listened to. The #CovidUnder19 initiative aims to change that.

The project aims to support civic engagement initiatives of young people, to offer them more opportunities at the local level and, in the end, to establish a range of good practices that would allow sustainable collaboration among community actors, beyond the project framework.

What would you say if people made decisions about you without consulting you? It would be a violation of your rights. The same applies to children; this right is specifically set out in Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: “the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight”.

To celebrate the Universal Children's Day, Terre des hommes organises the "Takeover Day" Campaign in Romania since 2012, striving to promote children’s right to choose their future and to express their opinion. This eighth edition of the campaign will take place between 18-22 November 2019. 

150 children from 30 communities in Moldova learned this summer how to prevent and combat violence in their schools and communities. Topics such as bullying, tolerance, diversity, gender equality were on the summer schools' agenda. Children also learned strategies for resilience and emotion management, self-awareness, stress management, how to resolve conflicts peacefully and effectively.

We invite young people from both migrant and host communities to join the Living Together Initiative (LTI) in its activities at Sziget Festival in August 2019 and to broadly be part of the initiative.  

Physical violence and emotional abuse still represent a daily reality for many children in Moldova, both at home and at school. Terre des hommes Moldova, with the financial support of Oak Foundation, launched a three-year project aiming to prevent violence against children by engaging the entire community. About 70 teachers and school students from the 30 beneficiary communities participated in the launching event on April 12.