MDG Campaign Kit Now Online!
Has our monthly theme page on the Millennium Development Goals got you thinking? Would you like to raise your voice in the global fight against poverty by starting your own campaign? Our MDG Campaign Kit, including an action guide, brochures, stickers, bookmarks and postcard, is now completely available for downloading! click here to get yourself a copy of the Kit and start planning your own awareness or mobilization campaign!
If you are not happy with your copy and would like us to send you a complete Campaign Kit, you can still apply for it by filling out our short survey: click here
TakingITGlobal's Flash Map Returns
At the beginning of May, TakingITGlobal sees an old feature re-launched in a refreshing new design: TIG's interactive Flash Map! If you want to find specific information about your country or region - or any other country or region in the world - then the Flash Map is your tool. Right now, you can use the map to track how your country is progressing towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals! View the flash map: click here
CLC Russia: Connect with Russian-speaking Youth
Our pilot project in Russia (which will celebrate its one year anniversary this summer!), is reaching hundreds of young people across the country. With over 1000 members from Russia and rapidly growing Russian content on the website, TIG has a lot to offer to all Russian-speaking members and visitors of the website.
Do you know someone who speaks Russian and would be interested in connecting with other Russian-speaking youth? Be sure to tell them about www.takingitglobal.ru! Help us bring TIG to Russian-speaking youth across the world!
Submit your creative writing, articles, interviews, and poetry to Panorama Online Magazine: click here
Join our discussion board in Russian and share your views on topics of interest to youth: click here
Visit the Russian country site to add events and opportunities in Russian, and to read recent blogs and new submissions to Panorama in Russian! click here
New Partnership: Linguistic Gymnasium # 23, city of Vladimir
TakingITGlobal has formed a new partnership in Russia, this time with the Linguistic Gymnasium # 23 in the city of Vladimir. With the support of their English teacher Natalia Manilova, a group of grade 10 students who study English and wish to hone their translation skills, took up a challenge of joining our team of Russian e-translators. Do you think your school would be interested in working with us on translation project? If yes, email Svitlana with questions and ideas: svitlana@takingitglobal.org
TIG Translators Best on the Web
Congratulations and special thanks to the French translation team for the fastest turn around time on the monthly theme! The team consists of: Hind Ottmani, Martial Motcho, Boris Bouquerel, Mariem Ellouze, Fatma Harbaoui, Sidi Yattara, and Jean-Pierre Nziya. Great job everyone!
CLC Russia team would like to thank the most active translators - Dasha Sharapova, Misha Kolosov, Dasha Kolpakova, Masha Stepanova and Lena Obara - for their hard work and dedication in translating the MDG theme into Russian. We also thank Elena Sivacheva from Saint Petersburg for her help with translation.
TakingITGlobal language coordinators would also like to recognize the Arabic and Spanish translators who consistently translate the site into their language with determination. Maria Gabriela Altilio, Luciana Del Gizzo, Fabrizio Scollini, and ESIT Team of Peru - we are very grateful for your commitment to the Spanish version of the site! Arabic translators deserving recognition are: Moustafa Hussein, Amany Salaheldin Soliman, Maged Hassan, May Fawaz, Karim El Nadoury, Yayha Mekkawi, and Safaa Moussa. Thanks to everyone!
Panorama MDG-themed Writing Contest!
Enter our contest "What I Can Do to Help Achieve the Millennium Development Goals." In your essay, tell us how you or youth in your country, can work towards realizing the Goals. Think about creative and effective ways to lobby your government and campaign for policy change. Entries can be in the form of essays, poems, and short stories - all are eligible for a prize pack with lots of neat stuff!
Criteria:
- To enter, you must be between the ages of 13-31
- Please type "MDG Contest" before the title of your article.
- Word length for short stories, essays, and poems must not exceed 2500 words. Essays and short stories must be a minimum length of 500 words.
- Creative ideas!
Send us your contest submission at: https://www.tigweb.org/panorama/content.html
The contest closes May 31, 2005.
If you have any questions please contact: editorial@takingitglobal.org
Panorama Next Issue: Food
Grow, Harvest, Cultivate, Produce, Prepare, Consume - Food!
Food is the lifeblood of human existence. Without it we become weak, inert, demoralized. Hunger and malnutrition permeate the planet. While some go without, others sustain their livelihoods by its production. And even others rarely think about where there food comes from; it is always just readily available. Despite these extremes, food acts as a unifer. People learn about one another through the sharing of food. Appreciation for difference is cultivated too. What do you eat? How do you make it? Where do you buy your food? Are you a farmer, a cook, a vegetarian? Do you want to be? What is your favorite meal? What are you yearning to try? What are the essential foods?
Hunger, eating disorders, agriculture, droughts, hormones and pesticides, nutrition, fair trade, food allergies, and food contamination - it's up to you to choose the issue that is relevant to you. You have an empty plate and a fully stocked kitchen. Create a food masterpiece and submit it to Panorama! Click Here!
What Are They Doing Now?
Watch for a special edition of TIG Insight (our corporate newsletter), available online in mid May. Besides the latest TIG info, you can read what TIG alumni are doing now. Diogo Andre, Ruth Caceres, Vittoria La Neve, Karis Malszecki Ricky Quintal, Jessica Rose, and Benjamin Wan tell us what they're up to. If you would like to stay involved with TIG as alumni, please e-mail Jocelyn Sweet: 
