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News from our global partners

Open Society Foundations, Youth Service America and International Youth Foundation.

DIA’s National Youth Service Day 2012 (KöZöD!) Awards went to talented young social innovators

One of the four KöZöD! Awards went to Humana Magazin, a human rights magazin run by young volunteers (http://www.humanamagazin.eu/egyesulet/humana-egyesulet).

Compulsory Youth Service in Hungarian Schools starting September 2012

While DIA has been advocating the importance of youth service since its creation in 1999, and reached out to hundreds of schools and thousands of students the idea beeing that young people should get at least one chance in secondary school to be involved in projects aiming at giving back to their local community, in December 2011, the government of Hungary made youth service compulsory for all secondary school students  obtaining a matriculation.