Write about Solving Youth Unemployment to win up to $3,000

The World Bank and its partners invite everyone to participate in the International Essay Competition 2010. The topic is Youth Unemployment.

Answer few questions in your writings and you have the chance to win the prizes of $3,000, $2,000, $1,000 and others.

Youths can share your ideas on:

How can you tackle youth unemployment through youth-led solutions?

Please answer both questions:

1. How does youth unemployment affect you, your country, town or local community?

2. What can you do, working together with your peers, to find a sustainable solution for job seekers through youth entrepreneurship? Think specifically about the barriers youths face in the labor market and how to tackle difficulties in accessing capital for business startups.

Participants are encouraged to give concrete examples if you have personal experience as a young entrepreneur and if not share your ideas about how you would go about creating a business/ work opportunities in your local community/ town/ country.

Here is the Calendar of events of the Competition:

January 11, 2010 – Launch of the Essay Competition
March 16, 2010 - Deadline for submissions
April 30 – Finalists of the essay category announced and winner of the video category announced
May – Final Jury in Stockholm, Sweden (only finalists in the essay category and winner of the video category participate)
May - Award Ceremony during the ABCDE Conference in Stockholm, Sweden

For more details log on to http://www.essaycompetition.org