Peace Child International has created the “Be the Change!” programme to support young people under 25 years of age with small grants of US$500 - US$1,000 to get involved in local community action and development projects.
Projects must be genuinely youth-led with two experienced and committed adult mentors, and benefit the community rather than an individual need. All projects must have measures of achievement (indicators) by which projects may be evaluated. Projects may be either income-generating (funds to start up a small business and creating jobs) or non-income generating (for health, education, environmental clean-up or community improvement) social projects.
For more information and to download an application form, see http://www.peacechild.org/www/pci/index.php?id=72. Send proposals to the desk officer for your region at Peace Child International.
Applications close 31 March, 2007.
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