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Jong Nederland

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Abbreviation
  
Jong Nederland

Membership
  
12,000 members

Headquarters
  
Tilburg,  Netherlands

Jong Nederland

Formation
  
December 6, 1944; 72 years ago (1944-12-06)

Type
  
Dutch non-profit youth organization

Purpose
  
Catholic youth organization

Jong Nederland is a Catholic youth organization in the Netherlands. Jong Nederland is a member of the Catholic umbrella of youth organizations "Fimcap".

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History

Jong Nederland was founded on the sixth of December 1944, right after the southern provinces of the Netherlands were freed of the Nazi occupation. The purpose was to create an organisation for all Catholic youth in the Netherlands and to unite all the different Catholic youth organisations that had existed before the war and that were forbidden after 1941. Not all Catholic Youth Organisations joined Jong Nederland. However, for a long time Jong Nederland was the most important Catholic Youth organisation in the Netherlands.

Organization

Jong Nederland is structured in the following sections (based on age-groups):

References

Jong Nederland Wikipedia