Adobe Youth Voices

What is Adobe Youth Voices?

Adobe Youth Voices aims to empower youth in underserved communities around the globe with real-world experiences and 21st century tools to communicate their ideas, exhibit their potential, and take action in their communities.

Launched in June 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is the Adobe Foundation’s global signature philanthropy program designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. The Adobe Foundati

on invests nearly US$7 million per year in the Adobe Youth Voices program, primarily through training, educational resources, and grants. The program also leverages software donations and employee volunteers from Adobe Systems Incorporated.

With a focus on empowering youth, Adobe Youth Voices supports young people in and out of school and encourages the use of cutting-edge multimedia tools to communicate and share their ideas, demonstrate their potential, and take action where they live.

The Adobe Youth Voices global network currently includes more than 500 sites and a large, expanding number of grantees and organizations in 32 countries. Since its inception, Adobe Youth Voices has engaged over 27,000 youth and 1,500 educators in schools and out-of-school programs.

MCP, HoodForts,  Adobe Youth Voices & Bold Creative

The Mile End Community Project won in the best design and print category at the 2010 Adobe Youth Voices Event at the BFI. Woooooohooo!

Adobe youth voices project was a great opportunity for all of us and has given us a great platform to share this brand and project with others.  It gave us the confidence to be creative not giving us too much restrictions, we are extremely proud of what we have achieved.

Also working with Bold Creative has been amazing, they really know their stuff, one of the best things about them is that they were like one of us but at the same time they had their professional hats on all the time

During this project we produced a number of things:

• Designs and Print for Urban fashion.
• A promo film for HoodForts to send a positive message out to young people using our own music and lyrics created by members of our group, we kept it short and sharp and keeping it real by using some locations we mainly hang around in, fashion that we normally wear and spoke in our normal manner not putting on a act for the film.
• A blog to document our work which will include our film and designs and also the workshops we participated in.  This will allow us share with others what we have been involved in and will hopefully encourage them to do something similar where they live.
• A flyer to give people information of our brand.

Also during this project Syed and Mushin were working on a poster at the offscreen offiices.  Modo was asked to create a soundbites with a discussion on the exhibiton, also we were priviliged to find out that images of our guys were used for the e-flyer and also for the main invite sent out to everyone.

Adobe Youth Voices 2010 Celebrations at BFI

MCP wins first prize for the best print and deisgn category! Brrrrrraaap

At the exhibition we displayed some of the work that we have been involved in throughout the Adobe Youth Voices Project.  We will also projected all the workshops and our Blog, amoungst our exhibition and included some other work that was digital created using photoshop produced by Jilad Miah and Zakirul Choudhury and finally some canvas paintings produced by Muhsin Ahmed and Syed Iftekhar Ahmed.

MCP and London Youth take the Guys out for a celebration meal and for some more awards

After a long hard working 6 months we thought that a ”Rubbie” was due, everyone went down to the new
trendy BunduKhans in the Aldagate. Together we enjoyed a nice evening of good company,
food and more awards and vouchers.

Adobe Youth Voices 2011 here we come !!