Each August 12, the world celebrates International Youth Day, a holiday set aside to focus on the difficulties faced by young people around the globe. On this holiday, we consider how we can reduce childhood poverty and how we can make life better for kids worldwide. Back in 1985, the United Nations celebrated its inaugural International Year of Youth, which laid an early foundation for International Youth Day. In 1995, the UN celebrated the initiative’s tenth anniversary by implementing the World Programme of Action for Youth, which established goals and guidelines that could help create a better life for the world’s young people. Finally, in 1999, the UN took things an exciting step further by declaring August 12 International Youth Day. Since then, the world has spent each August considering how we can meet the needs of all global communities and sustainably consume our resources in order to provide young people with a more comfortable present and future.

-nationaltoday.com