Youth Life

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Youth Life





Youth Life is a Republican Public Association (NGO) that has developed its programme into a number of diverse development projects for vulnerable and young people by young people and their families. The problems identified have developed from the following process:-
Local and overseas youth work specialists examined the regional situation and could see that children and youth are one of the least reached and supported group in the whole of Central Asia and they need to be reached and supported. As a result it was decided to conduct a survey in order to make sure that this is what they have to launch. In 1998 in collaboration with the UNHCR the survey was conducted which concluded that the children and youth are the least reached and supported group in Tajikistan and in all Central Asian countries. At the same time youth worker specialist contacted Governmental officials to receive their opinion and views towards this particular issue. Since that time the work started on a very small scale. As a result the research was held in 1998 jointly with UNHCR when 1000 families were monitored in Khujand (second biggest city in Tajikistan). Many children had dropped out from school, and there was an increasing number of children living on the streets and involved in criminal and other negative activities. Youth Life (YL) grew as a program to help keep children at home with their families and to prevent children from needing Government funding (which has not been greatly available)to come into institutional care and developed into a diverse youth work that now works with hundreds of youth every week.