Youth Changing the World
Youth Changing the World is a service and learning framework that guides youth through the process of project development. This framework is designed for children of all ages and guides youth to deeper understanding of problems of local, national, or global importance and enables them to utilize their skills and passions to address their root causes.
About GYSD
About GYSDEstablished in 1988, Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities through service. GYSD is the largest service event in the world and the only one dedicated to the contributions that children and youth make 365 days of the year.
GYSD is celebrated each year in more than 135 countries, with young people working together–and with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies, and adult mentors– to address the world’s most critical issues and change their communities.
As YSA celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama became the Honorary Chair of Global Youth Service Day. She continued to serve in that role in 2012, 2013 (the 25th anniversary of GYSD), and 2014.
The GYSD's goals
Scale: Engage millions of young people, ages 5-25, especially those not usually asked to serve, in an early step on a life-long path of service and civic engagement.
Visibility: Recognize, celebrate and raise public awareness of the year-round contributions of young people, youth service programs, and partner organizations, especially among the media and public officials.
Impact: Have a positive impact on young people and on communities through meaningful, youth-led projects that meet community needs in the areas of health, education, human service, human rights, and the environment. Projects reflect YSA’s four key strategies that create change: awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy.
One of the greatest problem in the world is Water Pollution and Sanitation, that is why we are going to treat this subject on GYSD in our lyceum, on Friday 15 April 2016.
Do you know that :
Here is presented a Healthy Lifestyle.
About GYSD
About GYSDEstablished in 1988, Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities through service. GYSD is the largest service event in the world and the only one dedicated to the contributions that children and youth make 365 days of the year.
GYSD is celebrated each year in more than 135 countries, with young people working together–and with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies, and adult mentors– to address the world’s most critical issues and change their communities.
As YSA celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama became the Honorary Chair of Global Youth Service Day. She continued to serve in that role in 2012, 2013 (the 25th anniversary of GYSD), and 2014.
The GYSD's goals
Scale: Engage millions of young people, ages 5-25, especially those not usually asked to serve, in an early step on a life-long path of service and civic engagement.
Visibility: Recognize, celebrate and raise public awareness of the year-round contributions of young people, youth service programs, and partner organizations, especially among the media and public officials.
Impact: Have a positive impact on young people and on communities through meaningful, youth-led projects that meet community needs in the areas of health, education, human service, human rights, and the environment. Projects reflect YSA’s four key strategies that create change: awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy.
One of the greatest problem in the world is Water Pollution and Sanitation, that is why we are going to treat this subject on GYSD in our lyceum, on Friday 15 April 2016.
Do you know that :
- 2.6 billion people have gained access to improved drinking water sources since 1990, but 663 million people are still without;
- At least 1.8 billion people globally use a source of drinking water that is contaminated;
- Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source has increased from 76 per cent to 91 per cent;
- But water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population and is projected to rise. Over 1.7 billion people are currently living in river basins where water use exceeds recharge;
- 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines;
- More than 80 per cent of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers or sea without any pollution removal;
- Each day,nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases;
- Hydropower is the most important and widely-used renewable source of energy and as of 2011, represented 16 per cent of total electricity production worldwide;
- Approximately 70 per cent of all water abstracted from rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for irrigation;
- Floods and other water-related disasters account for 0 per cent of all deaths related to natural disasters.
Here is presented a Healthy Lifestyle.