World Bank Youth Centre Mapping
The purpose of this mapping is to identify and survey existing and defunct Youth Centers (YC) in both urban and rural Timor Leste in order to understand the needs of YC's, their perspective on community youth needs and their perception on yout...
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| Format: | Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16400480/world-bank-youth-centre-mapping http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13013 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this mapping is to
identify and survey existing and defunct Youth Centers (YC)
in both urban and rural Timor Leste in order to understand
the needs of YC's, their perspective on community youth
needs and their perception on youth development. A youth
centre, or 'centre Juventude' and 'Uma Foin
Sae sira', is a physical location where young men and
women gather to discuss, coordinate and participate in youth
related activities. An YC could be a designated house on
church grounds; a room in a school, a Sub District office or
a building allocated by the community for the purpose of
youth related activities. An YC in Timor Leste may be a
modestly resourced house, or a derelict building where young
people meet to organize national events, sporting
competitions, or computer and language training. Sometimes
it is simply be a meeting point 'for empowerment'
where elected youth leaders from sucos (villages) and
aldeias (hamlets) meet to raise awareness on youth related
concerns. The idea of an YC has existed in Timor Leste for
many years and has evolved with time. From its beginnings
when it was used mainly for cultural and traditional
practices, to a place to conduct underground clandestine
activities, to what they are today. The survival of the YC
is determined by economic factors, but more importantly it
is determined by the support of which the community
provides. Nowadays, YC's seem to all hold one common
objective and that is to strive to deliver a range of
diverse activities that attempt to improve the social and
economic conditions of youth. |
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