Introduction - AYV Program

Adobe Youth Voices is a global philanthropic initiative that empowers youth in underserved communities worldwide to comment on their world using multimedia and digital tools to communicate and share their ideas, demonstrate their potential, and take action in their communities. Adobe Youth Voices shows the power technology brings to learning and enabling youth to think creatively, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively — critical 21st century skills. Working in collaboration with five leading youth media organizations, Adobe will introduce the program at 36 sites worldwide by year-end, including locations in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Seattle, London, and Noida and Bangalore, India.

Adobe Youth Voices will provide young people access to multimedia tools and training, enabling them to explore and comment on their world through video, audio, multimedia, digital art, animation and Web design. Additionally, Adobe will support exhibition of Adobe Youth Voices projects at community festivals, film screenings and conferences.

Adobe Youth Voices first-year sites named in INDIA, Seattle, New York, Bay Area and London

• Delhi/ Noida, India — Akshay Pratishthan School; Bal Panchayat; Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group; CRS Kanya Girls' Intercollege; Kislay; Mizzima News Group; Noida Public Senior Secondary School; The Kutumb Foundation; and Pravah.
  
  
• Bangalore, India — The Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA); Government Girls' High School, Adugodi; Government High School, Jyothipura; Government Urdu High School, Barlane; Samvada; Slum Jagattu Media Group; and Vivekavardhini High School.
  
  
• San Francisco Bay Area — Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, East Palo Alto and Redwood City; Build San Francisco Institute; Children's Discovery Museum; Downtown College Preparatory; Galileo Academy of Science & Technology; and KIPP Heartwood Academy.
  
  
• Seattle — Aki Kurose Middle School; Hamilton International Middle School; High Point Community Technology Center; James A. Garfield High School; McClure Middle School; Nathan Hale High School; Washington Middle School; and Youth in Focus.
  
  
• New York — Bronx Leadership Academy II; Bronx Satellite Academy (Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy); Lang Youth Medical Program; The School for Legal Studies; and Westside Collaborative Middle School (MS 250).
  
  
• London — Islington City Learning Centre Highbury; Kids Company; Lilian Baylis Technology School; Paddington Arts; and St. Charles Catholic Sixth Form College.