The Global Fund For Children

Youth Using Cutting-Edge Technology as Vehicle to Share Their Voices

• By Monica Grover on October 21st, 2010
• Category: Adobe Youth Voices, Blog, North America

Washington, DC – GFC recently partnered with the Adobe Foundation to participate in Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), a program that empowers young people to share their voices and express their understanding of the world through the use of new media technology. We selected 15 of our current grantee partners in Eastern Europe, East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Caribbean to participate in the AYV program. Young people from these 15 groups will be engaged in innovative media making, including learning Adobe software like Photoshop and Premiere Elements to create animation, digital art, videos, and more.

Through the learning process, the youth will have an opportunity to build their confidence levels and create meaningful messages that they choose to communicate. The digital media produced by the youth served by our grantee partners will be exhibited online and displayed in the local communities of the grantee partners. The mission of AYV is “to empower young people to create with purpose,” and we are looking forward to seeing the diverse and powerful projects that emerge from this new digital endeavor.

We believe that this opportunity for our grantee partners to gain access to powerful media equipment, software, and education will enable the young people served by them to learn, to grow, and to develop important skills needed in the 21st century. In addition, the AYV program gives us the chance to extend our digital media capacity building for our grantee partners beyond our previous two media partnerships, the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning project and the Nike Brain Trust initiative. The integration of digital media learning is evolving within our partner groups, and it’s thrilling to be a part of the movement.