Education

24 Feb

Posted at 17:07h in Business, Community, Disaster Resilience, Education, Environment, Fishing, Food, Healthcare, International Development, Poverty, Volunteering, Water, Young People by
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Vestability: A student run organisation providing affordable buoyancy vests to the world’s impoverished fishing communities. A few years ago I was volunteering in Madagascar for SEED, a charity aimed at eradicating poverty and environmental degradation in the Anosy region of Madagascar. It was here that I...

13 Feb

Posted at 17:22h in Agriculture, AIDS, Business, Children, Community, Education, Exploitation, HIV, Human Trafficking, International Development, Leadership, Philanthropy, Poverty by
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Catalyzing a Sustainable, Community-Based Response to the Orphan Crisis, through the Local Church January 12, 2017: My heart squealed with joy, as I watched cute pink piglets seemingly grow before my eyes. Far from my home in Pennsylvania, I had come to this remote area about...

06 Feb

Posted at 16:43h in Accountability, Advocacy, Education, Healthcare, International Development, Policy, Poverty, Refugees, Sustainable Development Goals, Young People, Youth by
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Empowering Students toward SDG-Oriented Education and Action The Sustainable Development Goals (a.k.a. SDGs) are a defining paradigm of our time. Adopted by all 193 UN Member States in September 2015, they represent an international consensus strategy to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for...

04 Jan

Posted at 15:31h in Art, Children, Community, Education, Empathy, Healthcare, Mental Health, Young People, Youth by
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Bringing Spoken Word Poetry Workshops to Schools and Mental Institutions in Argentina As kids, those who have a literary interest tend to learn two things very quickly. First, that literature is a gate towards universes, concepts and also abstract, wonderful ideas that have the potential to...

24 Nov

Posted at 16:01h in Accountability, Advocacy, Community, Education, Infrastructure, Policy, Young People, Youth by
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Equipping Nepali Youth to Hold their Leaders Accountable for Development Solutions in their Communities I have always been interested in community service, having noticed many development malfunctions in my country, Nepal. Over the course of my journey to challenge those malfunctions, I came across Youth Initiative...

02 Nov

Posted at 13:33h in Advocacy, Business, Community, Education, Empathy, International Development, Leadership, Peace, Philanthropy, Social Enterprise, Social Justice, Volunteering, Young People, Youth by
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Empowering Future Young Leaders from Urban and Rural Areas around France and the World My name is Amy Faulkner and I am currently interning at YES Akademia— a small for-social-profit global grassroots organisation— during my year abroad from the University of Cambridge, which I am spending in Paris....

27 Oct

Posted at 12:56h in Agriculture, Children, Community, Disaster Resilience, Education, Environment, Young People, Youth by
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Empowering Young Kenyans to Understand Disasters, Assess Risks and Develop Resilience to Droughts, Floods, Fires, Famines and Attacks As I write this, it's in the news -  five counties in the Coast region of my country, Kenya, are facing starvation. According to Kenya's National Drought Management...