Today, YLDF organized an awareness event for students of the Youth Leadership Program for high school graduates as part of the activities to celebrate International Women's Day 2022, aimed at introducing future leaders to equality and climate change.

At the global level, events coinciding with International Women's Day this year were launched a few days ago under the slogan "Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow", and a call for women's climate action, by women. From this standpoint, the YLDF saw that educating young men and women is something that comes in the context of its vision for the future.

“Women can achieve a qualitative leap in every field in which they participate.” This is what the YLDF believes, according to the General Manager, Safa Rawiyah, who said during the event: “We worked from the beginning on women’s issues, and we realized after a period of that women’s development will not take place without the participation of men. This is why we have been working for years with a broader vision.”

During the event, in which a Rawiyah spoke about the importance of women’s participation today in all fields “if we want our tomorrow to be different, more stable and developed,” the young activist Nour Ghulam gave an introductory presentation on gender justice and a definition of climate change, while the young activist Zainab Al-Azab spoke about the unique role of women In facing these climate changes. Mahmoud Al-Ashwal, the winner of the first place in the regional forum of the Sixth Youth Leadership Program with an innovative project, addressed the need to understand the special needs of women and girls while planning development and innovative projects by presenting his project experience.

Ghulam said that talking about gender justice does not mean excluding men or targeting men, but rather, "gender justice includes all." While Al-Azab said that women and girls are affected more than others by climate change, Al-Ashwal went on to stress that "successful projects are not only those that take into account the needs but also involve the beneficiaries in planning them."

The event, which took on an awareness-raising nature, targeted male and female students of the Youth Leadership Program for High School Graduates, which is an annual program implemented by the YLDF that aims to build the capacities of young men and women and qualify them professionally at different leadership levels.