Youth integration. Breaking down language barriers

Youth Portal has built a bridge to join Latin America and the Caribbean.

This June 5^th, 2007 is the launching date for the UNESCO and CELAJU Youth Portal for Latin America and the Caribbean http://www.youthlac.org/index.php  (English version) to integrate the 22 countries and territories of the Caribbean region and globalize this tool for youth communication.

The coordination team chose this date to celebrate World Environment Day to emphasize the young people, present generations, hold the planet’s future in their hands.

This Website is for the general public, but especially for youth networks, organizations and groups, and people working with youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Website is an Internet meeting-place, a network of networks of youth organizations and people working with youth, public and private, national and international, in all subject areas dealing with youth issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Building these networks will enhance the Website’s sustainability, since it will be nourished by the flow of information provided by existing networks.

The “Portal de Juventud” Website http://www.youthlac.org/index.php was inaugurated on 12 August 2005, International Youth Day, and has already been visited 800,000 times, and is being viewed as an extremely useful tool that is filling what until so recently was clearly a knowledge gap. Assessments have confirmed this vision and encouraged us to carry on.

The Website's pages are at your disposal, to publicize your activities, documents and invitations.

The Website is sponsored by UNESCO and the following networks: INFOYOUTH, Commonwealth Youth Programme, and CARICOM.

Contacts:

Portal’s Team

team@youthlac.org

http://www.youthlac.org

UNESCO Office for the Caribbean

Isidro Fernandez-Aballi

i.fernandez-aballi@unesco.org

CELAJU

Ernesto Rodriguez

erodrigu@adinet.com.uy