Youth Can Program Starts 12th Season

This year, the Youth Can program is launching its 12th season, aiming to engage more than 200 young people from various Lithuanian towns and provide opportunities to develop their personal, social, and entrepreneurial competencies.

The new season kicks off with a year-long game, “Youth Can? They Can!”, designed to encourage creativity, teamwork, and physical activity, strengthen community connections, and create a positive environment for young people to grow. The game features three challenges: entrepreneurship, organizing a non-traditional sports event, and mindful movement.

The entrepreneurship challenge is currently in progress: teams are designing T-shirts, calculating product costs, setting goals, and expanding their entrepreneurial skills during online sessions called “My Next 5 Clients” with business coaching specialists Raimonda Kostiuškevičiūtė-Ohnjec and Antanas Jurevičius.

In the coming weeks, teams will present their designs, and the funds they raise will be used to support their goals — from educational trips to organizing discos and sports events.

On November 15, participants gathered in Garliava for an in-person event dedicated to strengthening entrepreneurial competencies. Together with the lecturers, young people explored product value creation, originality, customer acquisition strategies, and key elements of building a successful business.

Education and youth empowerment is one of the priority support areas of the KFF.