Private sector growth can boost job creation, poverty reduction can increase national security and standard of living, andyouth development will help prepare Tunisian studentsand professionals for future employment, build local capacity, and develop citizens at the grassroots level.
The electronic interface of the Art for Peace project on the UNESCO website will multiply its visibility and impact, providing a forum and a global public space foryouth education by engaging students in an active dialogue about some extraordinary masterpieces to foster a shared vision of peace and humanity.
Students act as mentors and tutor youth, provide nutrition education for families, cultivate community gardens and teach culinary job training classes for unemployed adults.
While at UCLA, I was fortunate to work with a group of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) students who took it upon themselves to create a tutoring and mentoring program for NHPI high school youth in Los Angeles called PIER (Pacific Islander Education and Retention).