YouthBuild Global, headquarters for the YouthBuild movement, produced a video to highlight the important work taking place across the expansive network of local programs around the world.
The video features YouthBuild students, alumni, and program staff along with YouthBuild Global leaders and partners. It provides insight into daily life at YouthBuild programs and celebrates YouthBuild’s transformative impact on the lives of young people and communities from Atlanta, Georgia, to Nairobi, Kenya. It explores various career pathways YouthBuild offers across its network, and brings awareness to the many ways young people prepare for their futures in YouthBuild programs as they reclaim their education, gain job skills and credentials, and become leaders in their communities.
In YouthBuild’s environment of love, respect, high expectations, community, and agency, young people overcome barriers and build long-term professional and personal success.
“We hope to encourage all young people to know: never let anyone define you only by the worst thing you’ve ever done, or the zip code you come from, but by who you are today, and who you can be in the future,” said YouthBuild Global President and CEO John Valverde.
