{"id":2660,"date":"2019-08-12T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:49:36","slug":"international-youth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2660","title":{"rendered":"International Youth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2661\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Youth-Day-Pic.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations defines youth as ages 15-24, and their studies show that the majority of the world\u2019s youth reside in Asia at 60%.\u00a0 The UN identifies 15 priority youth issues They are: 1) Education, 2) Employment, 3) Hunger and Poverty, 4) Health, 5) Environment, 6) Drug Abuse, 7) Juvenile Delinquency, 8) Leisure-time Activities, 9) Girls and Young Women, 10) Full and effective participation of youth in the life of society and in decision-making, 11) Globalization, 12) Information and Communication Technologies, 13) HIV\/AIDS,\u00a0 14) Youth and Conflict, 15) Inter-generational Relations.<\/p>\n<p>A theme is named each year for International Youth Day and this year\u2019s theme is \u201cTransforming Education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mission Generation has been successful in addressing many of the priority youth issues mentioned above.\u00a0 Results of lowered drug use, improved graduation rates, less gang activity, and a more conducive atmosphere in the classroom for learning are impacting countries where MG curriculum are implemented.\u00a0 MG is truly \u201ctransforming education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we recognize this day, consider these 2 things:<\/p>\n<p>1) Who is in your circle of influence in this 15-24 year-old age bracket?<\/p>\n<p>2) How could you make a difference in their life?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you can mentor a youth in a way that their parents cannot\u2014listen to them and speak into their lives.\u00a0 Maybe you don\u2019t have a close relationship with someone in this age category, but you can make a donation to invest into the lives of youths through Mission Generation.\u00a0 If so, click <a href=\"https:\/\/interland3.donorperfect.net\/weblink\/weblink.aspx?name=missiongen&amp;id=57\">here<\/a>. You will make a difference! There are many youths who are in need of someone just like you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations defines youth as ages 15-24, and their studies show that the majority of the world\u2019s youth reside in Asia at 60%.\u00a0 The UN identifies 15 priority youth issues They are: 1) Education, 2) Employment, 3) Hunger and Poverty, 4) Health, 5) Environment, 6) Drug Abuse, 7) Juvenile Delinquency, 8) Leisure-time Activities, 9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}