Empowering Young People to build a culture
of peace for themselves and their society
With 23 years of experience in grassroots peace education, Youth For Peace (YFP) has encouraged increasing numbers of young people to take action and work for peace, justice and reconciliation in Cambodia.
YFP places great emphasis on the creativeness, ownership, and self-initiative of the participants, thereby actively engaging young people and key stakeholders in peaceful solutions to social conflicts and participate in a sustainable social development which brings about a culture of peace and a culture of democracy.
YFP uses creative approaches and participatory methodology to conduct peace making activities in their office facility, in urban and rural high schools, and in communities in several provinces throughout Cambodia.
Peace, and Leadership Education
Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia and continues to struggle to recover from years of civil war and genocide.
While Cambodia presents significant opportunities for economic growth, social change, and innovation, many young Cambodians continue to face challenges that hinder their ability to create a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Youth are the key factor for social change as youth learn to change their attitudes, they can change their behaviors and habits, thereby impacting positive changes in society.
Youth For Peace ( YFP) believes in the power of youth to overcome the major problems facing Cambodian society for sustainable development and peace in the future.
Dealing with the Past and Memorization
YFP is one of the leading NGOs working on youth participation and reconciliation. It is one of the first organizations working on the establishment of a sustainable community-owned legacy of memory at local mass killing places in Cambodia since the start of the proceeding at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), YFP has been actively involved in breaking the silence of the Khmer Rouge regime and moving towards a reconciled society through workshops, intergenerational dialogues, arts, field trips, memory sketches, forum theatre, producing films, radio talk shows, research and documents, conferences, film screenings, and preventing local mass killing sites.
Our programs actively engage youth, victims, survivors, and civil parties, fostering meaningful participation in the process of remembrance and healing.
23 Years
of building a better society
33 projects
That have been implemented
28k+ of Youth
actively engaged in our programs
5 Community Peace
Learning Centers
that have been established
and transformed from mass killing sites into spaces for peace education.
9k+
Victims/suvivors
of Khmer Rouge Regime
get involed in our programs
16 Books
that have been published
CONTACT INFO
#1A, Street 311,Sangkat Bengkok2,
Khan Tuol Kok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
admin@yfpcambodia.org
(+855) 23 88 13 46
OPENING HOURS
Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:30PM