Since 70 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza under age 25 live in poverty, we must respond to youth to hope for a better future. Resolving this issue would have an effect on security issues by making life better for these young people and reducing their need for violence. We focus on building, strengthening and sustaining what already exists and works. We focus on collaboration, partnering and combining resources. IYF is global in its work.
Local ownership is a key.
We work with local entities to enable them to create, own, run and manage their own foundation-like organizations. Each country does its own evaluations and we do our own evaluations. Describe the scope of IYF today. We have established Youthnet, a world network of children and youth projects, and the Global Exchange Fund, which was designed to support staff and program exchanges. On my 156th try, I begged my way into the Kellogg Foundation, which put up the initial money.