Youth Leaders Rally in Springfield

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - EducationOver 500 Youth Leaders, ages 10-21, from the Chicago Metropolitan Area and from north, central, and southern Illinois came to Springfield, IL on Tuesday, May 14th for Youth Democracy and Violence Prevention Day 2013, an educational and civic engagement project designed to help youth leaders learn about democracy in action and use that education to advocate for violence prevention funding and to organize their peers to take action to ensure that their communities become safer, better places.

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - EducationThese Youth Leaders will return to their communities in order to educate and inspire up to 5,000 of their peers to join them next year for Youth Democracy and Violence Prevention Day 2014. Youth Democracy and Violence Prevention Day 2013 is sponsored by Chicago Area Project and the Illinois Council of Area Projects, a group of twenty-one (21) Area Projects serving urban and rural communities throughout the State. Area Project programs are facilitated by two hundred thirty-two hundred (232) local indigenous community-based organizations.

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