The 2022 theme for In­ter­na­tion­al Youth Day, Au­gust 12th is “In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Sol­i­dar­i­ty; Cre­at­ing a world for all ages.” Ac­cord­ing to the UN, “Sol­i­dar­i­ty across gen­er­a­tions is key for sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.”

Pic­tured are four gen­er­a­tions of a fam­i­ly of women who pro­vide in­ter­gen­er­a­tional sup­port, from the youngest be­ing age 18 to the el­dest, age 96, (from left to right), Zoe Web­ster, Amy Hamil­ton, with Mar­i­lyn Lal­la and Ur­su­la de Cas­tro both of Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al Es­per­ance.

Sorop­ti­mists all over the world work on projects that seek to im­prove the lives of women and girls through­out their lives, and their fam­i­lies give sup­port, al­so ex­em­pli­fy­ing “In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Sol­i­dar­i­ty!”