We are so excited to be welcoming dozens of new partner sites to our Adobe Youth Voices network this year! As a sneak peek to the kinds of awesome organizations we're working with, check out OYE Honduras' latest newsletter.

OYE Honduras is a non-profit organization that supports at-risk Honduran youth through leadership programs and capacity building opportunities. We are so excited to be working with such an inclusive, innovative organization! We hope you enjoy learning about their work.   

We will be featuring other new and returning partner sites in the coming months. Stay tuned!

We are happy to share this video, featuring two of our Adobe Youth Voices educators from Fundación Proacceso in Mexico City. In this interview, Jonathan and Marco share a bit about their experiences as first-time educators in the program. Click the screenshot below to check it out!

TakingITGlobal is proud to announce the inaugural year of the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards, a dynamic opportunity for youth around the globe to submit their most compelling work to an international media competition. The opportunities for participants are immense! Finalists will have their work judged by a panel of youth, educators, professional artists and prominent figures in the media world, and their work will be showcased online. Voting on an “audience choice” award ensures plenty of online viewers will visit and interact with the media on display. Awards include creative software, hardware, and cash donations to a charity or cause of your choice. The deadline for submitting your media to the competition is April 20th, 2012. Find out more by visiting: www.youthvoices.adobe.com/awards

Three of our amazing educators sent us some great photos from their exhibit event which took place a few weeks ago. Congratulations to Martín, Gabriel, and Dani fo doing an amazing job celebrating their program and showcasing youth media to their community!

Educators and youth artists!

The educators presenting to their audience.

A storybook about child abuse created by one of the youth artists.

In the spring of 2011, two TakingITGlobal team members (myself included!) had the opportunity to visit two of our partner sites in Mexico and Brazil. We facilitated media-making workshops, participated in film festivals, and spent a lot of time talking with youth artists about what it means to affect positive change in the world. When we returned, we had hours of footage and lots of great photos. We decided to put together a short video featuring many of the youth we met on our travels to tell the world about the impact that youth can have when they have the power to use their voices. Here it is! We hope you enjoy it.

Perspectives - Youth insights on global issues. from TakingITGlobal on Vimeo.