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CAPs Friday (18/05/2012)

As you are probably aware of, we have just completed our Spring 2012 Cycle of Project applications. We were really pleased to receive such a large number of applications and are currently deciding which initiatives we will support. The results will be published here on 31 May for CAPs, GAPs and WBI-CAPs.   The annual [...]

“Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair”

In 1948 Eleanor Roosevelt predicted that human rights would creep like “a curious grapevine” into public conciousness around the globe.Dismissed at that time as utopian fantasy, her forecast has proven more prescient than the scepticism of her critics. The prepositions that all human beings- whatever their nationality, culture, or location possess specific inalienable rights simply [...]

Team Tuesday (08/05): Letters from Maputo

Time again for another letter from this end. Living in Africa offers a lot of exciting opportunities, as you might have read last week on Katherine’s blog; a week ago I was looking for a picnic spot and found a lovely sign warning people of crocodile encounters. This last weekend we went camping to an [...]

1st Lubao Environmental Summit

Greetings! The Sangguniang Kabataan of San Nicolas 1st in collaboration with the Federated Sangguniang Kabataan of Lubao and the youth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would like to introduce to you our Community Service Project in our beloved town, Lubao. We as a church, commonly known as ‘Mormons,’ organize a National [...]

National Forum of Scientific Debate for High School Students

So, Rio +20 is coming, and as an Association for the incentive of science, we from ABRIC couldn’t miss this opportunity to incentive scientific thinking and the creation of solutions for the problems of our society. In the next months, We’ll be organizing a kind of Rio +20 simulation, which will be called “National Forum [...]

Project Applications – Spring Cycle

Hello Changemakers! Our next cycle of project applications will start tomorrow and will run until 15 May. We will be accepting applications for regular CAPs, WBI CAPs and GAPs as well as the Rachel CAP. Some tips before you apply: -    Use the Global Changemakers Project Management toolkit to make sure you went through every [...]

1 Billion Youth Enterprises – the beginnings

We are going to turn 8 billion very soon but ever we wondered that half of the world population is living below poverty line! A billion losing lives for hunger and twice getting even less than US$ 1 a day. Where there is arrogance and hatred in this world, in darkness of hopelessness there are [...]

Zimbabwe’s Status in Human Rights Situation for Women and Girls

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE YOUTHS IN ZIMBABWE: An Overview Zimbabwe and the Southern African region has experienced gross abuses of human rights and this has impacted on development in all sectors of life, politically, economically and socially. There are widespread reports of systematic and escalating violations of human rights in the region and in Zimbabwe [...]

The ECONECT Project needs more Likes on Facebook!

Hi everyone! We would like to ask you guys to please like our Global Changemakers project which is THE ECONECT PROJECT. Please like our page and you will learn more things on how we can take care of our environment. Also, we can share ideas and environmental projects in our Facebook page. We need your [...]

Reminder: Facebook groups

New to the Global Changemakers community? Looking for people working on similar issues and in the same region? Check out our Facebook groups! Our Facebook fan page can be found here – and if you want to join any of the groups, follow the links below: Issues Anti-corruption Children’s rights Conflict resolution Education Environment Human [...]

Projects

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    GrassRoutes is a group of passionate youngsters with a slightly mad plan for empowering youth to protect their Environment: We are [...]

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    The World Health Organization talks about 150 000 people die each year due to climate change and considers that nearly 5 [...]

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    The Econect Project, is a project created by 12 Global Changemakers, running in 12 different countries so far. Our mission is [...]

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    We began our thesis at January 2010 about the preliminary design of a wind turbine especially for the Colombia wind conditions [...]

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    The Philippines is a developing country with a vibrant civil society and at least a hundred thousand non-profit groups, NGOs, civil [...]

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    Global Changemakers CEM is a student association, integrated by young activists, which aims to contribute positively in a wide range of [...]

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    Tu casa no es su casa – Your home it’s not his home’ is a wide media campaign that seeks to [...]

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    Step Ahead” is a Community Action Project that objectives to tackle the youth apathy in state communities of Sergipe, Pernambuco, Minas [...]

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    Fashion is exciting, colourful, dynamic….and more recently, cheap. The emphasis on cheap, fast fashion often occurs at the expense of both [...]

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    The youth in Sri Lanka are not given enough opportunities to voice their thoughts or to show case their talents. They [...]

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    BAKAS: Bagong Kabataan ang Solusyon formerly known as: Batang Kalikasan ang Solution History of BAKAS Year 2011:  In April 2011, BAKAS was founded by Cris [...]

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    This CAP is called ”Un relato sobre mi Lago”, which means ”A story about my Lake”. It consists on an essay [...]

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    Nowadays in Vietnam particularly, youngsters have little chance to realize the impacts of poverty, environmental problems and mental health on themselves [...]

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    Youth for Climate Justice is designed to raise awareness about climate change not just as an environmental problem but as a [...]

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    CFL Sri Lanka- “Powering Sri Lanka, one village at a time” Sri Lanka is currently at an Energy Crisis with all hydro [...]

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    Sparkle project is designed with the aim of raising the awareness of children at the age of 10 to 15 – (in [...]

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    greenings.org is powerful online tool for the worldwide growing community that thinks globally and acts locally. A “greening” is  an event [...]

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    This project aims to inform people about Latin America’s most important and vital issue: Resource Exploitation. Its goal is to raise [...]

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    The Green Initiative aims to become a NGO in Kuwait that will create a greener environment in a petrol-dependant economy. It [...]

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    This project is intended to mobilise a section of young people in a total of 18 Schools in the vicinity of [...]

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    Speak Your Mind is a non-profit media organisation focused on bringing about positive change to solve social and environmental issues. It [...]

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    Climate change is a global problem with local consequences. A bridge between decision makers and common people should facilitate action towards [...]

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    Mexico is considered one of the most bio and cultural diverse countries in the world; the linkage between the both is [...]

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    This project aims to inform people about Latin America’s most important and vital issue: Resource Exploitation. Its goal is to raise [...]

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    Global Voices is a non-profit organisation seeking to promote an understanding of and participation in international diplomacy by young Australians. We [...]

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