UWC projects
UWC People are building schools and starting up NGOs, and they might need volunteers to join them. Add a new project or get in touch with existing ones.
Promoting Peace Through Soccer in Brazil
Mission
To contribute to the cultural and educational development of children and adolescents so that they can act with autonomy in transforming their realities.
Description
We want to give another perspective of life for children and adolescents from a socially vulnerable community.
The main objective of this initiative, which lasts for 6 weeks, is to develop actions to promote social inclusion, gender equity and non-violence through sport, activities, awareness and mobilization on issues such as human rights and the importance of democratizing the access to physical activity - a right enshrined in the Brazilian Constitution, but that sometimes is not respected.
‘Peace Me the Ball Project’, funded though the 2012 Davis Project for Peace Program, unites sport and education as an instrument of valorization of young people, and it will have applications far beyond Brazil. We can learn a lot and share those experiences. The project, still in the initial phase, uses sport as a tool for social transformation. This project has a beginning and has an end. However, after the training, it is an institution, which is empowered with the knowledge necessary to tread their own paths.
We are kayaking from Prince Rupert (nearly Alaska) down back down to Pearson College on a two month kayaking expedition. We want to raise awareness for the school as well as challenge ourselves to undertake something worth working for.
If you are interested in sponsoring us or want more information let me know,
The Arava Valley of Peace summer course aims to bring youth from the Middle East and across the world to gain tools in Environmental Leadership and Conflict Resolution and to learn and experience the diversity of cultures and religions of the Middle East. The course is a joint venture between the National Committee of Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean College Foundation.
During the course of the project, participants will visit different regions, communities and NGOs all around Israel including communal desert communities, the tropical Red Sea, metropolitan Tel Aviv and the holy city of Jerusalem. Last year's participants were granted an audience with the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr Robert Serry.
The programme will take place for the third consecutive year, from July 22 - August 3 2012.
To volunteer as a tutor during the course contact the project coordinator at tom.canning@emuwc.org
The Journey
Our core team of five are biking the full three-month epic across the world’s second largest country, and we will be joined by various doers and dreamers along the way. We begin in Victoria, BC in June, and travel east to St John’s, Newfoundland for August 2012. The Calender has been attached so take a look and see if we pass you by, if so we'd love to meet. Also we are still looking for places to present/sleep/eat/shower so let us know if you are available. The days where we still don't have connections are marked in yellow on the calender.
The trip has been affectionately dubbed the ‘Journey to the Rising Sun’ both for its idealistic vision of empowering and educating young leaders for a better future, and for the simple fact that we will be travelling west to east, to the rising sun.
The Cause
Our journey is motivated by two core principals. First, we believe that our environment must be better protected from human impact. Second, we have seen first-hand that if youth are outfitted with passion, skills and resources, they take leadership and work towards this change.
To facilitate this, we are organizing youth events in every province we cross as well as the establishment of our Youth Action Fund. This fund will help young people launch local environmental projects in their own community. We hope that by sharing our story of sustainable transport across the continent, we can help inspire environmentally-conscious living around the world.
Presentations
Our vision is to inspire all those we come across, and as part of this, we plan to deliver presentations in the communities we visit. The presentations will be a combination of our own stories, the progress of the trip and how you too can take action through the Youth Action Fund - all delivered in the unique GrassRoutes style!
The Youth Action Fund is a sum of money available by application to support youth-led initiatives in Canada and the United Kingdom. It is raised and administered by the youth organization GrassRoutes, and overseen by the Environmental Youth Alliance.
The Youth Action Fund supports projects that:
• Are led by primarily by youth aged 12-25 anywhere within Canada or the United Kingdom
• Lead to measurable, positive environmental change
Supported Projects can be (but are not confined to):
• Address a specific environmental problem
• Conserve a specific environmental region
• Raise public awareness on a specific environmental issue.
The Youth Action Fund does NOT support:
• Projects whose main beneficiary is an individual.
• Projects where the majority of funding is used to finance salaries, travel and/or technical equipment.
More information can be found on our website:
http://www.grassroutesbiking.com/GRB/Welcome.html
or http://www.facebook.com/grassroutesbiking
or http://twitter.com/#!/Grass_Routes
This project can only get stronger with support so your help is absolutely welcomed. Through sharing our project with others, joining us for a segment of cycling, hosting a celebratory event in a city we cycle through or even just providing us with a yard to sleep in and food to eat, We'd love to hear from you!
Peas and Love,
The Grassroutes cycling team,
Graham, Louie, Cello, Oscar, Paul and Georgia
This year on the 18th of August, UWC Red Cross Nordic will be hosting a Nordic Peace Conference in Oslo.
In November of 2011, a group of current UWC RCN students went to a conference in Brussels, at the European Parliament, centered on Peace and Well Being. At the conference, our delegation signed a declaration of intent for peace on behalf of the UWCRCN community. In response to this commitment UWC RCN, in cooperation with the Nordic Council, is organizing a Nordic Peace Conference in Oslo, which will be centered largely on “peace education,” and the UWC movement. With this being the 50th anniversary of UWC itself, the conference will be part of an effort to energize and re-involve the UWC alumnus in the movement. The goal of the conference is to have current UWCRCN students create meaningful and practical projects related to peace and its development in the Nordic region. We are looking for Alumni who are motivated and ready to share their expertise in helping students in developing their project ideas. Alumni would serve in a mentorship process, collaborating with the current students of UWCRCN, with the opportunity to present their project idea together at the conference to an audience of different NGO’s, politicians, philanthropists, and other dignitaries from the Nordic Region. This is a tremendous opportunity for Alumni to re-engage themselves in the UWC movement, and to strive for a platform to present project ideas in a setting that would have the resources and the networks to put the ideas into practice.
If you are interested in participating in this conference, or have any other questions, please contact the conference organizers at nordicpeace2012@gmail.com, or connect with the project on connectuwc.org
Celebrate 50 years of the UWC movement with action!
I'm trying to start a project to make the UWC movement more accessible to young people with disabilities. The idea is to make a blog with stories, experiences and opinions on disabilities and school/living communities from as many different perspectives as possible. Have a loot at http://accessibility-uwc.blogspot.com/ for more information. If you can contribute in any way or know someone who can, please contact me on ulf911@gmail.com. Thank you.
We plan to travel to Rome to do some social service with the community of St. Egidio, visit important historical landmarks, and discover italian culture and history
The Yachay Initiative is an international youth-run organization that has dedicated itself to helping to ameliorate the challenges of poverty around the world. Named after the indigenous Ecuadorian verb "to learn", Yachay works closely with local communities and community-based organizations to run projects that actively link education and development in a way that empowers young people to realize the changes they wish to see in their communities. For Yachay, education is the vehicle for development as local ideas are discussed, developed, and enacted, bringing together the theory of leadership, cooperation and empowerment, into the practice of changing lives.
Find us at www.yachayinitiative.org
The UWC short course “Together for Development!” aims to encourage young people to critically engage with the concept of development, and to empower them to contribute to or lead effective development ventures in their home communities and in the wider world.
More info on: www.uwc-shortcourse-swaziland.org.
OpenPower Nepal is developing an open source framework for electricity generation that focuses on the two key points of local assembly and maintenance. It will be built beginning 2012 at the Maya Universe Academy in Nepal, a school providing free education where it is most needed.
Visit our project pages at
→ http://www.mayauniverseacademy.org/open-power-nepal
→ http://www/facebook.com/open.power.nepal
sd1 Peace Me the Ball Project
Promoting Peace Through Soccer in Brazil
Mission
To contribute to the cultural and educational development of children and adolescents so that they can act with autonomy in transforming their realities.
Description
We want to give another perspective of life for children and adolescents from a socially vulnerable community.
sd1 United World Kayakers
We are kayaking from Prince Rupert (nearly Alaska) down back down to Pearson College on a two month kayaking expedition. We want to raise awareness for the school as well as challenge ourselves to undertake something worth working for.
If you are interested in sponsoring us or want more information let me know,
sd1 "Arava Valley of Peace" UWC Summer Course in Israel
The Arava Valley of Peace summer course aims to bring youth from the Middle East and across the world to gain tools in Environmental Leadership and Conflict Resolution and to learn and experience the diversity of cultures and religions of the Middle East. The course is a joint venture between the National Committee of Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean College Foundation.
sd1 Grassroutes' Journey to the Rising Sun
The Journey
Our core team of five are biking the full three-month epic across the world’s second largest country, and we will be joined by various doers and dreamers along the way. We begin in Victoria, BC in June, and travel east to St John’s, Newfoundland for August 2012. The Calender has been attached so take a look and see if we pass you by, if so we'd love to meet. Also we are still looking for places to present/sleep/eat/shower so let us know if you are available. The days where we still don't have connections are marked in yellow on the calender.
sd1 Nordic Peace Conference
This year on the 18th of August, UWC Red Cross Nordic will be hosting a Nordic Peace Conference in Oslo.
sd1 Accessebility @ UWC (disabilities and the UWC movement)
I'm trying to start a project to make the UWC movement more accessible to young people with disabilities. The idea is to make a blog with stories, experiences and opinions on disabilities and school/living communities from as many different perspectives as possible. Have a loot at http://accessibility-uwc.blogspot.com/ for more information. If you can contribute in any way or know someone who can, please contact me on ulf911@gmail.com. Thank you.
sd1 Project week in Rome
We plan to travel to Rome to do some social service with the community of St. Egidio, visit important historical landmarks, and discover italian culture and history
sd1 Yachay Youth Development Initiative
The Yachay Initiative is an international youth-run organization that has dedicated itself to helping to ameliorate the challenges of poverty around the world. Named after the indigenous Ecuadorian verb "to learn", Yachay works closely with local communities and community-based organizations to run projects that actively link education and development in a way that empowers young people to realize the changes they wish to see in their communities. For Yachay, education is the vehicle for development as local ideas are discussed, developed, and enacted, bringing together the theory of leadership, cooperation and empowerment, into the practice of changing lives.
sd1 "Together for Development!" UWC Short Course in Africa
The UWC short course “Together for Development!” aims to encourage young people to critically engage with the concept of development, and to empower them to contribute to or lead effective development ventures in their home communities and in the wider world.
More info on: www.uwc-shortcourse-swaziland.org.
sd1 OpenPower Nepal
OpenPower Nepal is developing an open source framework for electricity generation that focuses on the two key points of local assembly and maintenance. It will be built beginning 2012 at the Maya Universe Academy in Nepal, a school providing free education where it is most needed.
Visit our project pages at
→ http://www.mayauniverseacademy.org/open-power-nepal
→ http://www/facebook.com/open.power.nepal
sd1 Maya Universe Academy
Our plan in 2010 was to enroll 10 students and start a small community school. When 200 families showed up for admissions, things evolved quickly. Nepal, with a 60% literacy rate, has a high demand for affordable and accessible educational institutions. In 2011, 90% of private school students were admitted to a secondary educational institution compared to 46% of public school students. This cannot only be the fault of the students. Little children with heavy bags on their back mugging up the alphabets cannot be held responsible.
sd1 Summer Initiatives at Mahindra UWC of India
As you may be aware MUWCI is running various summer programs in an effort to raise scholarship funds and spread awareness about the UWCs. We have gone from strength to strength since we started in 2008 and this year we are offering three programs for students and one for teachers. The program names and the dates are given below and the details are on our website http://www.muwci.net/triveni/summer.html
Workshop on the Principles and Practices of Global Pedagogy: 16th to 19th June
YES: 19th June to 25th June (Youth for Environment Sustainability)
Meza: 26th June to 10th July
sd1 Sino-Japan Youth Conference
Our Vision
We have a vision we want to realize: to inspire youths to touch those around them and bring about an peaceful era of friendship between Japan and China, through dialogue, respect, and mutual understanding.
sd1 SweetFern
SweetFern is an independent, student-run project that aims at promoting resilience on Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA. We are doing so by setting an example. We are organizing with two permaculturalists who are donating land to us. We want to start an organization that enables us to focus on learning to live off the land, and further down the line provide educational outreach within the MDI community.
sd1 EnvisionDo
Visit: www.envisiondo.org
EnvisionDo aims to develop a new generation of socially conscious leaders by providing young people a platform to explore different avenues of creating impactful changes.
Core Belief
sd1 Seeds for Change
Seeds for Change is trying to impacting communities through the conservation of the Filipino floral heritage and providing access to environmental and scholastic education opportunities.
Our Goals:
- To construct a library to help better the education of the children and adults of a small community
- To prevent the extinction of the endemic flora of the Philippines
- To raise awareness of the cultural as well as environmental importance of their endemic flora
sd1 "¡Integrando a México!"
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"¡Integrando a México!" is a youth integration and empowerment course that has the mission to "Make social entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and national integration the means of improving life conditions in Mexico." Held in the city of San Miguel de Allende, a city in the center of México, the course integrate young Mexicans from different origins, socio-economic backgrounds, and ideologies in a 4-week program that provides them with an intellectually and culturally stimulating experience, and, most importantly, the tools to carry out social projects of their own that allow them to become l
