Fw: [WorldYouth] Fwd: Call for Applications: West African Youth for Sustainable Development Regional Meeting 2011
Ann Bulimu
From: Michael Boampong <mic...@ypwc.org>
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Subject: [WorldYouth] Fwd: Call for Applications: West African Youth for Sustainable Development Regional Meeting 2011
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From: YPWC <newsl...@ypwc.org>
Date: 21 May 2011 07:48
Subject: Call for Applications: West African Youth for Sustainable Development Regional Meeting 2011
To: Michael Boampong <mic...@ypwc.org>
Greetings YPWCers,
We excited to announce the call for applications for our upcoming Regional Meeting on Sustainable Development in this Newletter, plus other exciting call for action from our Global Youth Service Day partner Youth Service America and Road to Rio +20 partner Peace Child International.
If you need have any questions for our Road to Rio + 20 coordinator please write to him at : francis...@ypwc.org
Happy reading!
In solidarity,
YPWC Team
Call for Applications: West African Youth for Sustainable Development Regional Meeting 2011
As part of efforts towards promoting youth engagement in sustainable development issues towards Rio+20 , Young People We Care together with it international partners are organizing the West African Youth Meeting from 10th August to 16th August. The role of West African youth in efforts towards sustainable development and the post 2015 development agenda will be key on our agenda for this meeting. Download application documents : Application Form & Background and Practical Information
Help YSA Double the Size of Global Youth Service Day
Narrowed down from hundreds of thousands of charities competing in the Chase Community Giving Challenge, YSA placed in the Top 100 of Round One securing $25,000, and is now competing in the second and final round of voting. YSA will use the money to DOUBLE the size of Global Youth Service Day – the largest service event in the world, and the only day that recognizes the contributions of young people to changing world. YSA will re-grant the money to its partners in the USA and around the world with the goal of two millions participants in 150 countries on six continents in 2012. Vote for YSA at http://bit.ly/ixf1ZP or learn more at www.YSA.org/vote
Youth ideas for Rio+20
On June 4-6, 2012, world leaders will gather in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking Earth Summit of 1992. We hope they will agree on radical plans to move the world from the unsustainable production and consumption patterns that are killing our planet and the people living in it to a new, clean green economy – essential for any of our generation who are planning to live beyond 2050.
Submit your idea and present it to Rio+20 leaders!
We invite youth of the world to contribute new ideas for the youth submission into the Rio+20 process through this site – and comment/vote on existing ones. The author of the idea with the most votes will win an all-expenses-paid trip to Rio or New York to present the youth statement to the leaders of the Rio+20 process.
Also, when you have finished, get active! Join thousands of youth around the world on the Road to Rio+20, the global youth mobilization towards the UN summit: http://roadtorioplus20.org/
Visit: http://rioplus20somethings.ideascale.com/ for more information
The Small Is…Challenge: Calling all Young Inventors!
Next year, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the world’s governments will meet at a big World Summit to decide how they are going to make the world clean, green, safe and fair for YOU and future generations to live in comfort and prosperity. In the last hundred years, we have moved from penny post, through radio, TV, fax to e-mail. What are going to be the big advances in your lifetimes? Well, you don’t have to wait to tell governments what you would like to see.
The Small Is… Challenge invites you to send in your idea NOW – and, if you are amongst the top ten best ideas chosen by a panel of experts, you will be invited to explain your idea to governments, UN officials and other young people gathered at the Rio Summit next year, or at the UN preparatory meeting in New York in November 2011. Click here for more information.
UNICEF Rural Voices of Youth: Call for Application
Young people between the ages of 18 and 25 are invited to apply to become National Focal Points for the Rural Voices of Youth (RVOY) initiative. NFPs work with the Rural Voices of Youth Coordinator to foster meaningful participation of marginalized children and adolescents in rural communities in providing solutions to issues that affect them.
RVOY’s vision is to raise awareness on issues affecting marginalized children and adolescents in rural communities. Since 2005 when it first started in Nigeria, RVOY now runs in 35 namely countries Liberia, Gambia, Peru, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, Oman, Kenya, Argentina, Togo, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Nepal, Uganda, Haiti, Swaziland, Madagascar, Scotland, Botswana, Indonesia, Cameroon, Tuvalu, Canada, Ethiopia, Philippines, Malawi, Egypt, Malaysia, Namibia, Rwanda, Mexico, Nigeria, Morocco and Sweden
This call for application is extended to interested young people who are resident nationals of countries other than those listed above. Applicants must have affiliation with civil society organizations in their country. Click here for more information
Looking for a Place to Volunteer or Intern?
If you are a young and ambitious person who wants to think globally and act locally, YPWC could be a good place to volunteer this Summer or Fall to make an impact in the lives of young people and communities while gaining some great skills. Follow these links for more information on our volunteer programme:
http://www.ypwc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113&Itemid=99
http://www.ypwc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=131&Itemid=143
http://www.ypwc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132&Itemid=144
If you have any questions please contact our volunteer coordinator at : v...@ypwc.org
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Kind Regards,
Michael Boampong,
www.michaelboampong.com
www.opportunitiesforyouth.org
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Young People We Care (YPWC) is a registered youth-led and youth-focused, non-profit organization that is headquartered in Ghana. The organization is operated by young people (ages 15–30) and adult allies working on youth and development related issues worldwide. At YPWC, we are passionate about sustainable development, the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and the promotion of a culture of peace and universal human rights for all. Visit us at: www.ypwc.org
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