Changing Lives in a Changing World: Young Lives Children Growing Up

Young Lives is an international research project studying the causes and consequences of children’s poverty through collecting survey data about children's lives, their families, their communities and their schools. In this book, the project interviews and tells stories of the lives of certain children from the 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. After ten years, the older group have turned 16 or 17. The younger group have just had their ninth birthdays.

Through interviewing a smaller number of children in each country in detail, the stories provide in-depth views and perspectives for a more detailed glimpse into the reality of some of the children’s lives as they grow up, including education and dropping out of school, livelihoods, health and sexuality, migration, and other topics from their experience. None of the children appear in the photographs or give their real names so as to protect them from outside interest and prevent one child from being singled out over another.

From the website: "Changing Lives in a Changing World: Young Lives children growing up is the second book charting the lives and the aspirations of 24 of the Young Lives children. The first book, published in 2009, was called: 'Nothing is impossible for me': Stories from Young Lives Children.

The profiles show the children to be hard-working, resilient and adaptable. Much of what they say is very relevant to those making policy on poverty and development. We will continue to follow them as they go through school, grow into adults and face the challenges of marriage, parenthood, and earning a living in a constantly changing world."