Youth Media | Stories

The vision of Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) was to empower young people to harness creativity and digital skills to drive change in their communities. Beginning in 2006, the Adobe Foundation made a significant investment in young people’s creativity through a network of organizations, educators, and young people. In all, 250,000 youth and 5,000 educators from 60 countries around the world have participated in Adobe Youth Voices.

At the heart of Adobe Youth Voices is an educational methodology that provides youth with the inspiration, training, and technology to create original media works on issues they care about. This approach to youth media making, what we call Create with Purpose, was developed in partnership with Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). EDC assisted the Adobe Foundation in all aspects of Adobe Youth Voices, including partner management, training design, and curriculum development.

In the summers of 2009, 2011 and 2013, AYV brought together hundreds of youth from around the world for one week to produce collaborative projects together, resulting in some of the most prolific works to come out of the program. This shared space quickly became a launchpad for amazing stories from unique persectives and planted a seed for a growing, global creative network for so many young artists.

The Adobe Foundation worked in collaboration with fourteen dedicated partners and thousands of educators and volunteers to inspire a movement of young storytellers and changemakers. Through AYV, young people have been learning, sharing, and creating with purpose all around the globe.

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