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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. Victor Hugo. It took the YES team 14 years to get to the point of imagining an architecture like YouthTrade.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. Victor Hugo
It took the YES team 14 years to get to the point of imagining an architecture like YouthTrade
It began in 1998 when a team at EDC did a gap analysis recognizing that the biggest missing piece on the global agenda was youth employment 1998 – 2002 – 40 global consultations
2002 - 2012 • 2002: Alexandria Egypt • 2004: Veracruz Mexico • 2006: Nairobi Kenya • 2008: Baku Azerbaijan • 2010: Leksand Sweden • 2012: Washington DC USA (why not?)
YouthTrade ™ aims to be an organized social movement that will create dedicated access to markets for goods produced by young entrepreneurs under the age of thirty-five.
GratitudeNo one accomplishes anything by themselvesMasterCard FoundationILOYENFoundation EEDC55 YES Country Networks
There is a soul force in the universe which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results Mahatma Gandhi