GLOBAL CITIZENS YOUTH ASSEMBLY (GCYA) 2011
The Global Citizens Youth Assembly 2011 brings together 1,000 young activists and social change makers from around the world from August, 2011. The Assembly consist of plenary sessions consisting of keynote speeches from eminent personalities, theme based workshops, small group discussions, creative arts workshops, cross culture exchanges, informal sessions, field trips and sports sessions. Young people aged 15-30 from all around the world will be invited to participate in the Global Citizens Youth Assembly 2011. These young people work on, are affected by and are passionate about a range of issues, such as climate change and global environmental degradation, peace and conflict resolution, poverty, education, employment etc. The Global Citizens Youth Assembly will provide young people with opportunities to engage in positive dialogue with their peers from around the world to discuss these issues that they are passionate about.
ABOUT GLOBAL CITIZENS YOUTH ASSEMBLY (GCYA)
GCYA is the process more than a conference where more than 1000 youth participants take part virtually through social networking sites and then for quality purpose few are selected to meet person to person in Bangalore. During the assembly we had an attendance of 150 youth college students joined by their faculty members, few young professionals, freelancers, environmentalists, social workers etc.
The sessions includes
1.Green Economy in the context of Poverty eradication and Sustainable development
2. Role of media for social change
3.Role of youth in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Participating Countries: Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, China, USA, UK, France, Chile and India
Mr.Dinesh Gajendran represented India in the Global Citizen Youth Assembly. The youth represents half the population of the world and therefore have an important role to play in bringing about social change. Therefore, the Global Citizens Youth Assembly aimed at created a platform for the Audacious Dreams Foundation to come forward and talk about our country, to develop a cross-cultural understanding of the themes of the assembly as well as to share our own personal work. Audacious Dreams Foundation participated in dialogue and discussion about the three themes of the Assembly. Audacious dreams foundation has a platform for local and global youth to represent ourselves and express our ideas for social change. By the assembly the Audacious has a great brotherhood with the participated nations. The cultural exchange between our and other nation was performed.
Audacious Dreams foundation on those three days engaged in various activities such as panel and group discussions, a workshop on the ‘Charter of the Peoples Earth’, that is a movement to be presented and declared at the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the Bangalore MDG Champions Competition, an open session for youth to represent their own personal work, the Global Citizens Art & Cultural Festival and finally concluded with field excursion through interaction and games with the children of migrant workers at Living Hope Children’s Home, Bangalore. Participants were very happy with the Urban-Rural and South-North link concept through the WE BUILD program and how it concludes with the Assembly and again a follow up through MDG champions program. They were inspired to do action oriented projects as such and not just have assemblies or conferences.
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