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Dispatch 11.5
April 2012
Youth Perspectives
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Earth Day Opportunity
From April 20 to April 22 (Earth Day), millions of children, teens, and young adults, ages 5-25, and their adult allies in over 100 countries on 6 continents will change the world, addressing critical issues including health, education, environment, hunger, poverty, disaster preparedness and response, and human rights. Register your Global Youth Service Day project or event today!
E-Course Registration!
Teachers! TIGed is offering many exciting professional development e-courses for you this spring. Graduate-level accredited courses in global citizenship education, environmental stewardship, and student voice are designed to support teachers in bringing the world into their classrooms through the use of e-technologies and international partnerships to help students understand global perspectives and environmental issues. Register today!
Ready to Volunteer?
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Would you like to become a TakingITGlobal Online Volunteer? Do you want to collaborate with young leaders from across the globe? Are you interested in giving back to the TakingITGlobal community? Have you ever wondered how you can further your involvement with TIG's online community? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the Online Community and Multilingual team are looking for you! This is a great way for you to gain invaluable experience! Check out all of our volunteer postings and apply today! |
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Adobe Youth Voices is a program that supports youth all over the world in thinking critically about social issues and expressing themselves creatively using multimedia tools. In 2011, TakingITGlobal engaged nearly 3000 youth in 18 countries in creating multimedia pieces about their communities, their issues, their hopes, and their demands. The collection features work by youth in 18 countries including Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, India, South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt. |
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YouthMovements.org Launches! |
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We invite you to check out YouthMovements.org - a new mapping initiative convened by TakingITGlobal with the support of Knight Foundation, that seeks to visualize and connect youth projects on a global scale. By aggregating project data from multiple organizations and movements into one place, we hope to increase communication and sharing across the youth sector making youth organizing even more powerful. |
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Rio+20 & Rio+You |
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Rio+You is an awareness campaign about sustainable development, a youth movement for all those who feel young, for those who want to change, participate, scream and work together for a better world! On April 22nd, Rio+You and their partners will organize events in over 50 cities around the world. Want to get involved? Download the materials to organize an event in your city. |
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TIG Artists: Enter to Win an Aspire Award! |
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TakingITGlobal is proud to announce the inaugural year of the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards, which is a dynamic opportunity for youth around the globe to submit their best work to an international media competition. |
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Your interest, support and involvement with TakingITGlobal helps our community grow and encourages more young people to become inspired, informed and involved everyday! By being a member of TakingITGlobal, you are part of a community that is over 400,000 strong coming from over 250 countries and territories. Thank you for having a vision of positive change. Your work makes a difference!
In friendship,
TakingITGlobal
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