Word: youthful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects, specifically to help forward her Africa interests, she chose Harvard—where she is now an African and African American Studies concentrator pursuing a secondary in Chemistry...
Allston Brighton Arts Bridge, a new non-profit organization founded by four recent graduates of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is giving local youth a chance to take command behind the camera...
...reinvigorate the effort to build up Palestinian institutions on the West Bank as part of a step-by-step progression toward peace. Working with special envoy Tony Blair and the private sector, the U.S. could again help build economic institutions, learning and job centers, industrial free-trade zones and youth programs. It would not require a lot of money; it could be done by enlisting American corporations and organizations in public-private partnerships...
...doctor," who has worked in AIDS wards, said he was stunned when he was told in 2000 that a gay friend may have contracted AIDS. "Most people think they can't get HIV through anal sex," says Grace, who leads a campus group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth at Makerere University and did not want to give her full name...
...anti-gay tide. Said Sylvia Tamale, dean of law: "Today it is homosexuals under attack. Tomorrow it will be another minority." In the meantime, the country's gay community cowers. "In Uganda people take us to be sinners," says Grace, the leader of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group, who preferred not to give her surname. "They consider us as a destroyed person. Most of [our members] say, 'I don't know what I am doing in this world. Everybody hates me.' We have to keep on consoling them...