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Good News from the Youth Workshop
It's a great pleasure to be welcomed into Caravan - a new opportunity and a new place to meet! Crossing the boundaries and distances, shrinking and stretching this wonderful challenging planet with just a few pages of this magazine keeps the hope that we can shape it our way, as well! Warmest regards to all, Tijana Zivanovic What is the Youth Workshop? [Ouarzazate Meeting (Mexico)] [Working with Schools (Brazil)] The Youth Workshop for a Responsible and United World is an informal International Network of youth (individuals and organisations) working together to identify their concerns and find common solutions to the challenges that they all face. The Youth Workshop as a network is trying to create a condition where young people can act on their own behalf, and on their own will for the betterment of themselves and their communities, rather than at the direction which is imposed. It intends to inculcate in the youth a sense of belonging to the system and the responsibility to play an active and effective role in shaping the future of the planet. The Youth Workshop is a part of the International movement - the Alliance for a Responsible and United World and maintains it's own e-mail forum (distribution list), Interact (a quarterly print Newsletter), a Web site and a bimonthly Electronic bulletin. The Youth Workshop Regional Co-ordinators all over the world are active in a variety of activities in their own communities, either at the local, regional or international level. To know more about the Youth Workshop and the upcoming YW events, please write to the YW Co-ordinator closest to you. Website: http://crossworld.echo.org (under construction) YW Global Meeting in Ouarzazate (Morocco) [Working with Schools (Brazil)] [Global Youth Meet (Nepal)] From January 14 to 23, 2000, the Youth Workshop co-ordinators held a meeting in Ouarzazate, Morocco. This meeting, organised by our ally Dia-Maroc and the Diwan Space team in Ouarzazate, included co-ordinators from around the world and it's been the second time that we have all come together since the creation of our network in Manali, India in May 1998. Four days of the week-long meeting we spent in the village of Zaouit, where Dia Maroc administrator Abderrahmane and his family welcomed us into their home. During this time, Zaouit, population 60, became a global village hosting 19 co-ordinators coming from 17 different countries. Issues discussed at the meeting were: the philosophy of the Youth Workshop, the Interact journal, the e-bulletin and internal communications, various events organised by YW partners that will be occurring throughout the world, and the upcoming International Youth Parliament to be held in Sydney, Australia, in October (see article). This meeting allowed all of us, both old and new co-ordinators, to take stock of where the Youth Workshop has come from and where it is going. We also toured local plantation projects and spoke with the young people of Zaouit about economic challenges they face in their community. At the end of the meeting, we met with young people from the Diwan space in Ouarzazate, participating, as well, in various social activities, facilitated sessions and worked with Ouarzazate youth to create a social arts group (social theatre, music and other artistic expressions). The Youth Workshop helped plant the seeds for a network of young people around the globe who will meet on the Internet to discuss arts for social change. The young people in Ouarzazate hope to use this form of expression as a tool to sensitise the public to important issues and to traverse all differences of gender, race, age, etc. Brazilian Co-ordinators work with schools [Ouarzazate Meeting (Mexico)] [Global Youth Meet (Nepal)] The Brazilian YW team was involved in the organisation of the First Young People’s Meeting of the Rede de Escolas Associadas Pueri Domus (Schools Network Pueri Domus), together with Imagens (an educational and communication enterprise). This meeting took place in Sao Paulo on October 16th and 17th last year and gathered 300 teenagers from all over Brazil. It's main purpose was to reflect on the challenges Brazil will face in the next 500 years and participants designed four projects to be elaborated through workshops (environment, health, culture, ethics and citizenship) and communications tools (drama, newspaper, painting, written project and sculpture), all co-ordinated by young people from NGOs in Brazil. The meeting also promoted the exchange of experiences with regard to both formal and non-formal education. The idea is that Brazilian schools can be centres to empower and link social projects. Report on the Global Youth Meet (Nepal) [Ouarzazate Meeting (Mexico)] [Working with Schools (Brazil)] From 28 December 1999 to 3rd January 2000, Nepal hosted a Global Youth Meet for 385 participants from 41 countries of the world. The theme of the Meet was: The Global Youth and the 21st Century: Meetings of Minds on the Roof of the World and it was organised by National Youth Forum Nepal (NYFON), a non-governmental organisation, to bid farewell to the 20th century and welcome the new millennium. Young people from all over the world discussed crucial global issues including HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse, Global Peace and Harmony, Cultural Harmony, World Environment and Human Rights. Other than the unavoidable sharing and exchanging of ideas, young people got the opportunity to extend the bond of friendship, communication and harmony with each other and many who had never visited Nepal before enjoyed an opportunity to learn about the rich local culture. The Global Youth Meet presented the Kathmandu Resolution, designed to strengthen bonds of friendship, communication, and harmony, and give attention to different important issues. For more information, contact Rajendra Mulmi rmulmi@hotmail.com.
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