Press Releases

In July 2010, more than 5,000 youth from 80 universities across China set out on the Green Long March, across 8 routes, to promote regional solutions for climate change. In addition to raising awareness, 55 student teams are implementing Green Seed Award projects to identify and expand successful practices.

In her book, Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East, Isobel Coleman finds herself in a rural part of Afghanistan. Her traveling companion is Dr. Shukria Hassan, the former health director of Future Generations Afghanistan. In the book's introduction, Coleman highlights the work of Future Generations to provide literacy classes for women and girls through the help of local religious leaders.

Across West Virginia, Fire Chiefs and Rescue Squad volunteers look forward to a Future Generations initiative to set up public computer centers and training programs in 60 communities. Computer centers with high-speed Internet will be located in fire and rescue squad facilities, which double as community centers.

Kabul – With a recent grant from the United States Institute of Peace, Future Generations will identify and learn from communities across Afghanistan that have successfully managed their security and development needs in the midst of conflict.  Using an action-research approach centered on the concept of Positive Deviance, the findings will be applied with communities, policymakers, and international actors in order to improve peacebuilding policy and practice.