Affiliation with other organizations: |
.Youth 4 Change Network- LP4Y initiated creation of this international network of NGOs that advocates, develops and shares operational best practices in favor of the social and professional integration of vulnerable and excluded Youth. .Youth Inclusion Network- is of companies commited to the inclusion of Youth. Members share and develop CSR programs and HR policies favorable to the professional inclusion of excluded Youth and strategies to combat poverty. |
Publications: |
.Bi-annual newsletter, to be found on LP4Y website (www.lp4y.org) .Portraits (a photobook with portraits and stories of our beneficiaries) . Scarred by Life written by Lucie Taurines, former volunteer on the field and current president LP4Y |
Purpose of the organization: |
1. To advocate on behalf of Young adults who are victimes of exclusion; 2. To accompany excluded Youth towards social and professional integration through entreprenurship; 3. And finally, to accompany all entrepreneurial initiatives in favor of vulnerable Youth. |
Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: |
In 2010, LP4Y launched a Life Project Center in Cagayan de Oro where differently abled Young adults are accompanied towards social and professional integration. The project shows that LP4Y unique learing method has been succesfully replicated when working with differently abled (in this center, deaf Youth). Based on this experience, we will open a Excellence Center for Youth Entrepreneurship in Mekong Delta later in 2018 where mostly differently abled Youth will be accompanied. |
Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
Since 2009, LP4Y has launched 19 Life Project Centers in 4 different Asian countries (Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, India) and will soon open new Centers in Nepal and Myanmar. Besides, LP4Y organized several advocacy events in favor of Youth inclusion (e.g. Youth 4 Change Network Forum in Brussels on 22nd May 2018 or in Paris on 25th May 2018, Run for LP4Y within marathons in Paris and Brussels, etc.) |
A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Lucie Taurines, French Jean Baptist Prache, French Manoelle Plante, French Patrick Heaume, French |
Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
LP4Y has 155 adherents that regularly renew their membreship by paying membership fee and assist and vote during general assembly. |