![]() In September 2014, PYE presented it’s format to local educators in Thessaloniki. But they will not stop - their goal is to radically change the way we experience learning in today’s society. Over the last 9 years PYE has reached 1 million youth in 10 countries around the globe. PYE helps educators build community and nurture leadership skills including creativity, empathy, and teamwork in order to prepare students for the new world of work. With its Creative Community Model, PYE offers proven facilitation training directly to the people who teach, mentor and support youth using a powerful blend of creative facilitation, experiential learning, and arts empowerment techniques. PYE is taking that idea of empowerment and bringing it to where it’s needed most – the youth population. ![]() One such organisation is Partners for Youth Employment (PYE), supported by Ashoka’s THIS WORKS initiative. Working on the ground underneath the complex macroeconomics of Greece’s recovery programme and the international financial institutions working with the Government on the bailout are a battalion of the social entrepreneurs and organisations resolving Greece’s massive unemployment problem with innovation one job at a time. But what does a contraction of unemployment by 1.6 per cent mean to the almost 3m Greek unemployed? The numbers are encouraging and inspiring. Greece’s Prime Minsiter, Alex Tsipras writing recently in the Financial Times claims that unemployment in Greece has contracted from 26.5 per cent in 2014 to 24.9 per cent today, and tourism over the same period has broken records bringing in €15.5bn in revenues.Īnd a few weeks ago a report by the OECD predicted growth by 1.9 percent in 2017 after contracting 0.1 percent this year. ![]() * Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.Īfter six years of recession the Greek economy in 2016 shows signs of recovery.
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