TALENT OP DE EUR: Marlies Ruigewaard

Dat Marlies Ruigewaard (21) door een vriend van haar ouders - werkzaam bij The Hunger Project - gevraagd werd voor een nieuwe jeugdtak (Youth Ending Hunger), was geen verrassing. Marlies ging namelijk direct na de middelbare school al vier maanden naar Ghana om vrijwilligerswerk te doen en vertrok al vroeg in haar studie voor studievereniging STAR naar Kenia, waar ze jongeren leerde 'hoe ze een…

On april 28th Marlies Ruigewaard organised a Fashion Event at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Together with other Youth Ending Hunger volunteers and students of the Erasmus University she collected and sold good quality second hand clothing.

Starting six weeks before the event, they addressed students to clean out their closets by e-mail, powerpoints in classes and posters. Marlies arranged two large containers at the University in which students could drop their clothes.…

Youth Ending Hunger Bangladesh was founded in 1997. Today the network consists of more than 100.000 members. One of them is A. K. Manik. He is 21 years old and grew up in Raghobpur village in Mymensingh, Bangladesh with six brothers and two sisters. In 2003 he participated in a three-hour Youth Ending Hunger (YEH) workshop that he heard about through his high school. After this training he mobilised about 20 other youth members. Together they have organized several events to end chronic…

During the coming three weeks students of the community college Windesheim in Zwolle (NL) will work for Youth Ending Hunger (YEH). Within the subject 'Design' they will work on branding-advice for YEH. They will also develop a concept to involve more young adults in the network.

YEH is a network of Youth, by Youth and for Youth. For this reason we mobilise youth to participate in the starting phases of…