Visit to Wuhan Youth Palace

On June 19th I visited the Wuhan Youth Palace where the Association plans to carry out its first pilot learning -to-learn programmes. We were really impressed with the facilities which serve 10,000 young people a week providing them with training courses and a wide range of extra-curricular activities.

Mr Li and his team gave us a tremendous welcome and we had some very thoughtful discussions on how to broaden the offer available to young people in Wuhan to meet the vision of the China Youth Development Complex project which is “to help young people learn through experience the creativity, life skills and global citizenship they need to lead fulfilled lives”.

We also visited a couple of Teen-zones, a very new idea developed by the ACYF (All China Youth Federation) to extend the reach of the work of Youth Palaces to many more young people. As can be seen from the photo below these are located in the heart of city communities and provide a space for young people to chill out and try new ideas and programmes outside the normal school curriculum.