World Youth Skills Day! #WYSD

By Legacy | July 15, 2018

Today is World Youth Skills Day! #WYSD. Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuously exposed to lower quality of jobs, greater labor market inequalities, and longer and more insecure school-to-work transitions. That is why education and training are key determinants of success in the labor market.

World Environment Day

By Legacy | June 8, 2018

Last month our #EYLeaders took time out to do some amazing work with the land at Community First Village, an organization that does great work with low-income and displaced people in Austin, TX.

Cultural Exchange Can Happen Anywhere

By Legacy | July 21, 2017

The spontaneity of youth is contagious. Each year Legacy staff are reminded as we work with our many youth and young adult programs what it is like to have youth on our side again for a few weeks.

World Refugee Day

By Legacy | June 20, 2017

“Our responses to refugees must be grounded in our shared values of responsibility sharing, non-discrimination, and human rights.”  – UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon

Support Legacy Leaders: Jessel

By Legacy | November 18, 2016

“I think that I am in this world with one more opportunity, and this opportunity life gave me I use to rescue the kids here … so that they don’t live the difficulty I lived.”