Hello everyone! my name is Laura, I am a Colombian refugee currently living in Ecuador, I am a communications coordinator for Global Refugee Youth Network, my work and passion is focused on young refugees to be the main agents of change in the issues they believe important, mobilizing resources for projects that they themselves create. 

We have been discussing the socio-economic challenges faced by young refugees on this Forum. We now move to solutions…What do you think governments, local communities as well as the international community at large can do to better respond to the needs and aspirations of young people in forced displacement, particularly with regards to their education, skills and employment?

Listen to this video of young people refugees and their aspirations for the future and share your thoughts and ideas on the topic below ⤵️

That thought is still haunting me day after day, with no persuasive answers. Is it conceivable that I began to adapt to the fact that I do not belong in that faraway land? Or am I truly starting to grasp the concept of being a forcibly displaced soul on the outskirts of my homeland? I made every effort to explain those wars and revolutions, those paragraphs and pages, those bombs and bullets, those tears and groans. I looked at the tales of history and the papers of geography. But I did not discover anything that convinced me. I only found a wounded child screaming out for the birth of another injured child, I only found a mother searching for her sons, I only found a daughter fleeing the enemy, followed by the voice of a father asking God to return home. I couldn't discover anything that explained why this thing called war is happening. I couldn't come up with a convincing explanation for this poison known as politics, whose effect appears to circulate, by some means, in our innocent unwitting bodies, our grandparents and children, our safe homes and roads.
Is this the same land in which I was born and from which I also escaped on a dark night for the fear of living there ? Yes, today we are heading east, west, south and north. Our bags are on our shoulders, but our gaze is fixed behind us, on a homeland whose letters spell out my name and the names of all refugees. But we will not head only to seek living; we will also keep heading the journey of finding answers, demonstrating our existence, changing our reality, assisting our society, and establishing a future in which no one will live as we have.
By: Walaa Abdelmagid
From: Sudan 🇸🇩

Hi all! My name is Rahildaris Marchena, I'm a Venezuelan refugee and a digital artist by profession, I work as the Communications Specialist in the Global Refugee Youth Network and also in Tertiary Refugee Student Network to advocate for education and opportunities for refugee youth.

In the run-up to World Refugee Day on 20 June 2023, we welcome the voices and contributions of forcibly displaced young people to this forum. We invite you to share more about yourselves, your experiences, the challenges you have experienced as a result of forced displacement, as well as your hopes for the future.

Let us talk about the following issues.

1. What are some of the challenges young refugees and internally displaced youth face?
2. As young refugees, what are your hopes, aspirations and fears?

If you would like to ask any questions to the young refugee leaders, please also post them below.

To young refugee leaders please only share information and experiences that you are comfortable sharing.

📢We are pleased to announce that Terra Renaissance, a Japanese based NGO, has committed to The Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth!

Terra Renaissance has been working mainly on the issues of landmines, small arms, and child soldiers in Asian and African countries since 2001. Over the last years, they have been working to empower more than 174,000 vulnerable people.

They commit to empower #youth in #Uganda, #DRC and #Burundi to access decent work through vocational trainings such as tailoring, carpentry, motorcycle mechanic, and animal husbandry as well as kits to start income-generating activities (IGAs) and psychosocial support like counselling and other social activities 🌍

Read their commitment and actions 👇
https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/news-detail/115

https://twitter.com/Susana_puerto/status/1363848088931172354