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| Grantee | Description | Issue Area | Country |
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4-H Million Trees Project Elkus Ranch Tree Planting |
The 4-H Million Trees Project will host a tree planting event on Saturday, April 24, 2010 involving San Mateo County 4-H youth. The 4-Hers will pick up their shovels, roll up their sleeves, and get busy planting. 15 Coast redwoods will be planted at the University of California's Elkus Ranch, approximately 5 miles south of Half Moon Bay, CA. | ||
A Campaign To Eradicate hunger through sustainable farming practices |
News paper reports indicate a drastic decline in food production and rising prices in the rural communities of Busiro sub-county in recent years. | Uganda | |
A Campaign To Replace polyethene bags with paper bags |
Youth volunteers aged (10-25) from Masaka District want to initiate paper bag making to replace the polythene bags which are destructive to the environment. They recognize that the main problem with maintaining a stable environment is inhibited by lack of information among the local residents.They now intend to create public awareness to the nature of dangers polythene impacts on the environment. | Uganda | |
A Community Service Day for the Elderly |
6 out of every elderly couples in Kabwoko sub-county live in squalid homesteads which lack basic needs and minimum hygiene standards. This has made them more vulnerable to diseases, malnutrition and starvation. | Uganda | |
A Happy Birthday for everyone |
My plan including the time line: Early March: ~Contact DWS, Payless and Famous Footwear and ask that I be allowed to post a sign for shoe boxes to be donated to my project.~Contact McDonalds or Burger King to see if I can get coupons for kid's meal for each box we are preparing for free or a discounted cost. | United States | |
A Place To Call Home |
My friends and I plan to organize students from our high school to help plant trees. Either on Friday the 23 or Saturday the 24, at least 15 high school students, ages 16 to 18 years, will plant trees in the bird corridor. The workday is currently scheduled from 10am until 2pm. My advisor, Executive Director Susan Mintz, will assist with project coordination. | United States | |
A Rainwater Harvesting System to Increase Access to Safe Water |
Our sub-country of Kyotera has only one spring well which serves water close to 15,000 people. The changing climate has worsened the droughts and prolonged it to 4 months now. This has in return reduced the water level of the spring well by 50%. Accessing water has become very competitive. Katwe Health Center with a population of 100 patients is worst affected. | Uganda | |
Alternative Spring Break |
We are holding an Alternative Spring Break for high school youth in Seneca County, NY. It will take place April 23-24th, during the 5 local high school's spring breaks and Global Youth Service Day. Students will give up part of their spring break to help clean up our local State Park, and build a house for a family in need through Habitat for Humanity. | United States | |
Arts & Minds Environmental Club |
The students at the Academy of Arts and Minds Charter school want to build a garden in which we have the intentions of caring for and tending to. We wanted to place it on our school's balcony where all of the students go and hang out before and after school, as well as during lunch. | United States | |
Back2School - Back Pack program |
There are 1,439 children in seven schools who are on free or reduced lunch, with the majority being free. In order to qualify for free lunch, your family income has to be = or < 130% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. For a family of 4, this means the annual income is less than $28,665. | United States | |
Brush Against Power Saw--Art for Environment |
This project seeks to involve youth in community service through volunteering to increase awareness about environmental conservation in Umala Village of central Ugenya location in Nyanza province. We will have 10 talented artist to paint murals and posters with themes on tree planting, afforestation and agr forestry. The paintings will be done in schools and community centre. | Kenya | |
Building Up with Seniors |
At risk youth from the El Paso County Juvenile Justice Center and other local non-profit agencies are joining forces to participate in Global Youth Service Day for the third year in a row. Youth decided to renovate the outside exterior of a local, high volume senior center. Youth and mentors will complete weeks of preparations, tasks, and details on Saturday, April 24, from 8 to 2 p.m. | United States | |
Children Campaign To Clean their community |
Mariam Colony, adjacent to a posh area of Lahore is the most deprived colony in the fields of sanitation, hygiene and solid waste management which is resulting in quarrels among neighbors and increasing number of diseases and infections like hepatitis, diarrhea, malaria, skin and stomach infections particularly among the children shared by a practicing doctor. | Pakistan | |
City Year Washington, DC's Global Youth Service Day |
City Year unites a diverse group of 17-24 year-olds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world. | United States | |
Clean city and green city |
Pudukottai is one of the districts of Tamil Nadu, India. Pudukottai has around 4 lakh population who are fully depended on Pudukottai bus stand for their mobility from Pudukottai to all over Tamil Nadu. Almost 1 lakh population is passing through the bus stand of Pudukottai district. | India | |
Clean Up of Nyendo Town |
Litter in Nyendo town is widely scattered and has accumulated. Local estimates indicate that over 1500 tones of garbage is littered in this area per hour, severely impacting the human population and wildlife. | Uganda | |
Clean Water Project |
We (a group of high school students) are planning to hold a series of fundraisers throughout the school year, in an attempt to raise awareness about child labor, water and educational issues. We also aim to raise $5000 in order to provide a rural Indian village with a clean, sustainable water source. Many of our fundraisers will take place at our school, Santa Barbara High School. | United States | |
Comic-a-Thon for the Chesapeake |
Nitrogen pollution, primarily from agricultural runoff and sewage treatments plants, is the Bay's #1 problem. This overload of pollution seriously impairs the water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and the rivers and streams that feed it. | United States | |
Conservation Of Medicinal plants in community gardens. The project will take place in 500 dalit houses in 5 villages of Usilampatti block, Tamilnadu, India. On GYSD 100 youth volunteers create awareness about conservation of medicinal plants |
Youth will meet four hours per week each plan the project Chakkarvarthy (19) and Akshaya (18) will run the meetings. 100 youth volunteers will participate and led the project. Youth will share the action plan from these meetings project mentor, who provide training support. | India | |
Cover Backs Open Hearts |
Cover Backs Open Hearts is a kids helping kids charity project within which we are colleting new or gently used clothing at our local high school and middle school for the foster care system as well as those aging out of the system. After the myriad of clothing is collected, it must be separated by gender and size. | United States | |
DECI Marathon |
The project will take place in Debrecen between the 19th and 24th April 2010. The DECI Marathon will take place during which young people and kids do different volunteer activities in different social institutions. The DECI coordinator keeps in touch with the social institutions and discusses the program with them. | Hungary | |
Developing an Eco-Paradise in Valbona |
* Who: 16 high school students from the Albanian region called Kukes and 4 American Peace Corps volunteer supervisors will participate in this project. | Albania | |
Disaster Backpacks for Low Income Families |
Who: Club Red youth club of the American Red Cross of Southwestern IndianaWhat: Put together approx. 32 disaster backpacks to distribute to Low Income Families. | United States | |
Disaster Mitigation through Community level Resource Convergence. |
The project targets 5 coastal low lying villages in Guntur District located at the Krishna river mouth and vulnerable to both floods and cyclones. The villages are inhabited by dalith and tribal communities living in thatched huts who are very poor and lack resilience. The villages have been devastated 6 times in the last 20 years. | India | |
Do It Green (D.I.G.) |
The grass roots D.I.G. project will create awareness and excitement in the community about "Doing It Green," and inspire simple green lifestyle changes that contribute to a more sustainable community. The youth volunteers will utilize informal marketing video interviews with Dubuque citizens to find out how they D.I.G. | United States | |
Drains Are for Rain Stenciling Project |
Water is Life! Storm drains move storm water from the street straight to our local streams. If you put anything but water in these drains you pollute our streams, harm the wildlife, and contaminate our drinking water. People can be reminded to not use these drains by painting a simple message, "Drains are for Rain, Flows to Waterway" next to the storm drains. | United States | |
Earth Day Every Day |
I, Katherine Barnes, am the AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with the Alabama Coastal Foundation (ACF), a nonprofit environmental education organization located in Mobile, Alabama and serving the Gulf Coast community with a mission to improve and protect the quality of Alabama's coastal resources by identifying and solving problems through education, cooperation and participation.I plan to offer two act | United States | |
Everybody Dance Now! |
Started by a 14 year old in 2005, Everybody Dance Now! continues to be run entirely by youth. Our primary leaders Jackie Rotman, Founder and Executive Director, and Alina Wattenberg, Managing Director, are currently in the process of mentoring a team of eight leaders in training, all high school students volunteering to manage EDN! | United States | |
Funfest '10 |
We are planning a block party called Funfest for the entire community. The people running this Funfest are the Youth Dreamers. We are a group of middle school students who have been working for nine years to raise money to renovate a house that will be a youth-run youth center. | United States | |
Get The Avery Hall Garden On! |
The Avery Hall garden is a memorial garden located beside historic Avery Hall on the LMU campus. The garden is in significant disrepair. This project will provide benches and picnic tables for the garden, bird feeders and a bird bath, and the reclamation of the garden as a beautiful space for community fellowship. | United States | |
GIVE AID (Gift in Volunteering and Emergency Assistance for the Impoverished Demographic) |
The Silicon Valley Red Cross Youth Services' GIVE AID project (Gift in Volunteering and Emergency Assistance for the Impoverished Demographic) will take place on April 24th and 25th during Global Youth Service Day. | United States | |
Go Green - Live Green |
Airport is a suburb of Tiruchirapalli town which is a growing industrial area with increasing population settling into the area for want of business associated with Airport. The barren lands are converted into plots for construction of houses to accommodate the population entering into Airport. Trees are being cut and less chances of getting fresh air and oxygen in Airport. | India | |
Go Green By Going Blue - RECYCLE!! |
The Louisville Area YMCA teen leaders would like to start a recycling program at our facility. We would like to start this program during Global Youth Service Day. | United States | |
Go Green-Live Clean |
The North Olympic Youth Corps (NOYC) will participate in the 2nd Annual Clallam County Earth Day Fair on April 24th. The Earth Day Fair will be held in a central outdoor location, Port Angles City Pier, and is open to the general public. Last year roughly 700 people attended the fair; this years goal is 1000 participants. | United States | |
Green Your Environment To Avoid Health Risks |
Green Your Environment project is aimed at planting trees that act as a natural sink for green house gases especially carbondioxide needed by plants in photosynthesis to be accomplished with the help of 25 youth volunteers on GYSD. Nakasongola town suffers a huge pollution of exhaust fumes from the ever increasing number of old cars and motorcycles used as public transport. | Uganda | |
Happy Menses [Create Health Awareness on Personal / Menstrual Hygiene/and RTI [Reproductive Tract Infections] among the School Adolescent girls,] |
.REASON FOR THIS PROJECTA study conducted by UNICEF in Tamilnadu state and India which revealed that girl students abstained from attending classes five days a month every year due to fear and incapability of handling unexpected menstrual cycle and its needs or do absent classes in more days due to this menses problems. | India | |
Harmony Vs Stress |
In this project we want to lessen stress effects and to develop inside harmony among high-school students, through involving psychology students to hold training sessions on stress resistance and developing inside harmony for high school students. The project has main stages: 1. | Ukraine | |
Healthy Food Choices Day at Burgess Elementary School |
SC is one of the worst in the nation when it come to childhood obesity. I wanted to do something about it in my community. I (kendall) developed a Healthy Eating Choices Program that I put into place at my school. I have two other 5th graders at my school that are projects leaders with me and the local community Healthcare system wellness department assists us and serve as our business mentors. | United States | |
Homeless Community Garden |
AmeZone is a service learning group for youth ages 11-18 in Story County, Iowa. Over the past few months, we have been in the process of designing and planning a Homeless Community Garden in Ames which we will begin planting this spring. The garden will be located in a 50 by 50 foot lot generously donated for this project behind Trinity Christian Reform Church in Ames. | United States | |
Horseshoes for Hope |
My name is Elizabeth Joines. I started Horseshoes for Hope as a Girl Scout project after my baby sister was born with Downs Syndrome and other health problems. Her muscles were weak and she had trouble learning to do simple things like sitting up and crawling.Horseshoes for Hope makes pillows for babies who need extra support for positioning or meeting their developmental milestones. | United States | |
I Care About Me |
We work in connection with Assistance League's Operation School Bell program. This program provides new school clothes, shoes and a hygiene kit to elementary school children in our community. The health kit has a toothbrush, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, shampoo and tissues. Assisteens raise funds to purchase the health supplies, then we assemble them and distribute them. | United States | |
Intertwining Generations |
The Strathcona County Youth Council, a group of youth ages 12 to 17, will volunteer at a seniors home in Strathcona County on global youth service day weekend. We will be doing fun activites and showing our appreciation by handing out potted flowers and cards. | Canada | |
iRoc Fitness Project |
The iRoc Fitness Project will combine exercise with fun through competitive team games. Forget the video games and TV shows, it's time to get out and move. The iRoc Fitness Project will host a series of outdoor games for teens in the Potomac Knolls development located in Ft. Washington, MD. | United States | |
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Friday April 23 we (myself and a group of youth in the community) will be constructing and painting an 8 by 15 foot portable world map (a program known as the World Map Project that is used in developing countries to promote geography and cultural education). The mobil map will be transported between the 34 elementary and high schools in the community as a free educational resource. | Ecuador | |
Join Hands for the Hungry |
From March to April, my classmates and I will shoot the footage for our film about hunger in our Bronx community and discrimination against immigrants who are in need of food but can not get it because they do not have proper legal documentation. Our service project, Join Hands for the Hungry, will span three days: from Wednesday April 21st to Friday April 23rd. | United States | |
Just Food |
Currently enrolled in our high school's Social Advocacy class, we are a group of six students with our sights set on planning and implementing a project that addresses food justice among teenagers in our community. A misconception currently exists that maintaining a healthy and socially conscious diet is a luxury that is available only to those above a certain income level. | United States | |
Kids Creating Change |
The kids of YSP identified obesity/healthy eating as a major problem in their community. They are 6-16 years of age. | United States | |
Kids To Kids Helps Haiti |
For this Kids to Kids project, we plan to support a group of Haitian children in the St. Clare region that was affected by the earthquake by providing them with the resources they need to continue to go to school and to stay healthy. | United States | |
Learning About Human Right at Secondary School |
The project will be runned by 15 volunteers.The activity will consist on teaching human right in secondary school at the time given(23-25 april 2010).The targeted primary school is called NYANZA secondary school (RWANDA/southern province/ NYANZA district) where students do not have more skills about human right whereas young ladies and mothers are frequently being violated in that area | Rwanda | |
Learning About Malaria in Primary School |
The project will be runned by 15 volunteers.The activity will consist on teaching malaria in primary school at the time given(23-25 april 2010).The targeted primary school is called CYARWA primary school(RWANDA/southern province/HUYE district) where students do not have more skills about malaria whereas that disease is more frequently in that area .The school comprises 15 | Rwanda | |
Let's Change |
My project will take place in the coordination with Chairman of Volunteer Aid Nepal, Mr. Bhuwan Poudel and Advisor of YCC. This project will help the participants to get idea about poverty reduction and mainly the environmental issues with theme "go green". This project will be launched on public holiday (24th April,2010). | Nepal | |
Light Up a Life |
My project is entitled "Light Up a Life." Hopewell High School Service Learning Students will be selecting, ordering and constructing crafts such as magnets and door hangers, as well as designing seasonal and birthday greeting cards to distribute to the elderly of the Hopewell community. | United States | |
Loft Cinema Public Mural |
City High School is the only school in the Tucson Small School Project district. City High offers different community based classes such as radio and film documentary, bookmaking, culinary arts and art and place making classes. | United States | |
Making Your Room green for the planet : do water and electricity economy ! |
I noted that more students living in a room at the university campus of the University of Yaound | Cameroon | |
Mobile Pharmacy in Northern Uganda Project (MPNUP) |
MPNUP is a project that takes place in 6 refugee camps in Northern Uganda. It is organized by pharmacy students, members of IPSF. It will last for whole year 2010. Due to 20-year long civil war in Northern Uganda, medical system and care are insufficient in this war-stricken area. | Slovenia | |
Multi-Cultural Afternoon with Heifer International |
The " Multi-Cultural Afternoon with Heifer International" will take place on April 25, 2010. The Santa Barbara High School Heifer International Club will be putting on the event at a local park. We will be inviting various members of our community to a presentation about our club's work this year with Heifer International. | United States | |
Party for the Planet |
Party For The Planet (PFTP) brings together many different people and organizations. PFTP will consist of volunteers from the Lincoln Children's Zoo, Lincoln Public Schools Science Focus Program, and the Natural Leaders Network. PFTP has also gained the support of the Children and Nature Network, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and the Sierra Club. | United States | |
Phoenix Beautification |
A group of City Year corps members, students from Phoenix, and community members, will spend several hours on Saturday, April 24, 2010, working to beautify the grounds of Phoenix Multicultural Academy in Detroit, Michigan. We will build and paint benches, plant trees and flowers, pick up trash, repair the basketball court, cover up graffiti, and paint murals. | United States | |
Planet Alternatives Service Day |
Planet Alternatives is all about giving back to the community in Fremont, CA. This event will involved over a 100 students and 50 adults. The idea behind this project is to engage the community in service for others. We plan on doing this event either on April 23rd or April 24th. The goal is for students and adults to each complete at least 4 hours of service on that day. | United States | |
Plant a Tree In The Hood Day |
I, Melissa Kirk, wish to get a group of volunteers to go to my city's most deprived neighborhood called "The Crest" in Vallejo California and plant 50 fruit trees on April the 24th. I wish to organize this project because of global warming and my passion in preventing environmental disaster. | United States | |
Po-dobro Budeshto (A Better Future) |
Our youth group, Zaedno za Nas (Together for Us), is a recently started youth club involving 12 youth from 13-15 years old. The group will spearhead an educational voluntary project to improve the park next to the school in the center of town. During the month of April, we will install benches, picnic tables, trash bins and a gazebo in the park. | Bulgaria | |
Project A.B.C. Freshman Get Ur Good On |
Freshman Focus- Preserving Our Plant A.B.C. engages 465 ninth graders, as school/community leaders fostering a collaborative intergenerational service program, as primary and integral as A.B.C.- A. A. Assiscunk Creek, clearing debris and restoring native plants and shrubs; B. | United States | |
Project Fruition |
Fifty-one residents from the Rehoboth Children's Home, Inc. (RCHI) in central Luzon, Philippines, will establish and operate a small vegetable plant and fruit tree nursery in their backyard garden. Two-thirds of the nursery seedlings will be planted in the RCHI vegetable garden, maintained, and harvested by the residents throughout the growing season. | Philippines | |
Promotion Of Hygienic partices to eradicate malaria |
Medical reports from Nateete health centre reveal that malaria has claimed more lives than HIV? | Uganda | |
Ready, Set, Go for fitness |
This project would be beneficial to all the youth and children in our village Dzhulyounitsa. We will be having a 'fitness activities' day in our gym and open our new table tennis room for use, and maybe a competition.We plan to have everything ready for the Global Youth Service Day on Saturday, April 24th in the afternoon. The event will take place in our school P.R. | Bulgaria | |
Ready, Set, Go!: Exploring College |
"Ready, Set, GO!: Exploring College" is sponsored by two Northwestern University groups, CAMP (Chicago Area Mentorship Program) and Supplies for Dreams Northwestern University chapter, and Supplies for Dreams, Inc., a student-run 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. | United States | |
Rehabilitation of Bugabira Spring Well |
The only long serving spring well in Bugabira village has become a healthy risk. It is cracked and also becomes polluted especially in rainy season as the sides are not lined and the top fully covered. | Uganda | |
Remembering Forward |
Remembering Forward is an intergenerational creative arts program for women between the ages of 14 and 90. Each week, senior-youth pairs will engage in creative arts activities to better understand their history, and discover commonalities of women's experiences across time. | United States | |
Repainting of Kisungu Road Zebra Crossing |
Kizungu zebra crossing is faint and has become a death spot in the centre of Masaka City. Drivers no longer stop at this zebra crossing leading to rampant accidents that have claimed so many innocent lives mainly vulnerable children. | Uganda | |
Rhody Reads Literacy Day |
First Book URI will be hosting the First Annual Rhody Reads Literacy Day (RRLD) on Saturday, April 24th from 9am-3pm at a local South County Elementary School to raise awareness and funds for First Book URI. | United States | |
Round Robin Reading |
T.A.C.K.Y. (Teen Advisory Council Kids Yo!) is the Teen Advisory Council of the Union County Public Library. We, partnered with FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America), are hosting a book swap on April 24, 2010 at the community center "The Junction" in College Corner Ohio. The book swap is called Round Robin Reading. | United States | |
Save Mau Forest |
This is youth-led project targeting 100 young volunteers, community members and leaders to plant trees in MAU Forest in Narok, Kenya. The project's main objective is to plant 1000 Trees with an aim to conserve the environment and inculcate responsibility among community members to uptake the task of tackling climate change, our all time global challenge. | Kenya | |
Save Plastic - It's Fantastic |
To protect our environment, the students at my school want to start a recycling project this year for the school families and the community. The recycling project will include student created educational videos about pollution, the effects of plastic on our environment, and why recycling is important. | United States | |
School Grounds Beautification and Environmental Awareness Seminar |
The evidence that Albania is a country in transition from its communist-era society to a still-in-development democracy is overwhelming; our small city of Rreshen, for example, has only had garbage dumpsters for the past three years, and litter is still a rampant problem as the mentality of community responsibility and what makes for a good civil servant is still very much a work-in-progress. | Albania | |
Splash! It's easy with a PAL (personal aquatic lift)! |
Please let me introduce myself. My name is James Colin Yeater. I am involved in the fundraising stage for my Eagle Scout project. It involves the purchase of an ADA compliant pool lift and installation of it at the Bridgeport Community Pool to make it accessible for the disabled and elderly. | United States | |
Starting A Food bank for the needy children |
In Kayirikiti neighbourhood 6 in 10 of the children go hungry every day. Malnutrition affects children's health and development and ability to learn. So on Global Youth Service Day 40 children from Kayirikiti neighbourhood will join forces to train local residents on the impact of malnutrition and food storage skills. | Uganda | |
Street Drama Against Caste Intimidation |
Who: we have a club named at Begnas Yuwa Club inour village begnas that is generally formed with the youths from higher caste like Brahmin and chettri.there are almost none from the lower class people.What: so we decided to organize a street drama with the local youth incluidng youths from all caste that will help to make the people aware about the issues like cultural discrimination, ethnic disem | Nepal | |
Take The Feather, Make your start! |
Following the objective of enlarging local students' opportunities by educating them on Essay Writting. I will organize a tree-day training with a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Office of UNDP Youth Programme. The trainning will be held in interactive way with using laptop computers. | Kyrgyzstan | |
Talbot and Morton Food Pantries |
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in collaboration with the Fall River, Massachusetts Public School department has developed a collaboration known as LEADS -- Leadership for Educational Attainment Developed through Service. Though in its infancy, this collaboration has shown great promise. | United States | |
The Corner that Grows! |
On April 24, 2010 the Southside of Minneapolis will bring the elders and youth from all different cultures to design and cultivate a community garden. The location of the garden will be between the Native American Indian Center and the Somali Cultural Area, the corner of Lake street and Harriet. This is a neighborhood that is in need of bringing together two cultures needing racial mending. | United States | |
The Green Community |
The project ''The Green Comminty'' will be implemented by approximately 200 students of the Astrakhan State Technical University (ASTU), aged 18 - 24. We all live in the ASTU Hostel #8, and we want to improve the territory adjacent to our hostel. | Russia | |
The Youth Literacy Fund |
The Youth Literacy Fund is a grassroots organization that seeks to foster reading skills among children in the New Jersey area and abroad. Our approach is three-pronged: we provide free books to children and schools; we send teenage volunteers to read to children; and we fund and provide pen-pals for a village school in Tamil Nadu, India. | United States | |
Think Smarter. Eat Healthier. Live Better. |
I, along with my teammates, close friends, mentor and parents of Trial By Fire Track & Field Club will organize a wide-spread community screening of "What's On Your Plate" at the local medical college Children's Healthy Lifestyle Center or the East Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday, April 24, 2010. What's On Your Plate is a documentary about kids and food politics. | United States | |
True Colors at Servapalooza |
Excel Youth Zone's Club eXcel, high school service-learning club, will be host the signature project, True Colors, at San Diego's annual Global Youth Service Day festival called Servapalooza on April 25, 2010 from 12:00 to 4:00 in Balboa Park in San Diego, CA. | United States | |
Tween Tech Safety |
Teen Advisory Council (at the DELTA Project) will present interactive peer education workshops to students in grades 5-8 in schools throughout Knox County. The workshops will educate tweens about internet and cell phone safety including: texting, social networking, internet search engines, chat, avoiding predators online, setting boundaries, and accountability. | United States | |
Voices of Youth Closet |
Young adult members of the Youth and Young Adults in Transition Committee are creating a pantry, the Voices of Youth Closet, that will have personal hygiene items and cleaning products. The pantry will be for young adults ages 16 to 24 who are facing life challenges like homelessness, physical and/or emotional disabilities, and leaving foster care. | United States | |
Walk for Education |
My team and I are each advocates for youth empowerment and undertake projects to empower education for underprivileged youths worldwide. In collaboration with the Helen Keller Institute and Ratna Nidhi Trust, our current endeavor is to build a computer lab for poor blind children in Mumbai, India. It is scheduled for completion before the winter of 2011. | United States | |
Weekend BackPack Project |
I plan to work with other youth in the Kinston Youth Enrichment Project to provide backpacks filled with non-perishable foods to kids we feel do not receive an adequate meal at home on the weekend. We have been planning this project in Kinston, NC since the start of the Semester o f Service on January 18, 2010. | United States | |
West G is Idle Free |
We are publicizing a new no idling policy. This policy was enacted in concert with a grant which students wrote to the Ohio EPA for diesel particulate filters. WE will hold an event to raise awareness about the new policy. We will also stencil parking lots. | United States | |
When the Last Tree Dies the Last Man Dies |
Friends of the Earth Club of Mamprobi Ebenezer 5 Junior High School will embark on a massive tree planting exercise on the 24 April, 2010 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of global youth service day.The tree planting exercise will take place around the school and the Mamprobi community on 24th April 2010.This year's project is to curb the effect of climate change in the community and the wor | Ghana | |
Which Came First? The Chicken, Egg or Hunger |
During the first two weeks my twin sister and I will research how to raise chickens to produce eggs. We will interview our grandparents and neighbors who have raised chicken. When we are done with research we will work with our mom and dad, who teach Agricultural Education, to redo our barn to be a safe place for chickens to be raised and lay eggs. | United States | |
WI P2D2 |
What would you do if you discovered that your drinking water contained antibiotics, psychiatric drugs or hormones from birth control pills?This problem is very real and has been happening in waterways across America. That is why I started Wisconsin P2D2 (Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal). | United States | |
YAB Project WAVE Stewardship Garden and Stream Workshop |
FODC YAB, formed in 2006, is a group of dedicated youth 18 and younger interested in clean water and helping their communities. Our mission is to increase youth participation in helping clean up the Deckers Creek watershed for conservation, preservation, and recreation through youth-led projects and research. | United States | |
Young People Yes we can 2010 |
Tropics International volunteersPlanting trees to save the Mau forestApril 23-25th 2010Mau forest in the Rift Valley, KenyaTo secure water catchment areas, and save Lake Nakuru (home for flamingos in the world) whose source of water is the mau forestThrough mobilization of Tropics volunteers and locals living in the forest, inviting the green belt movement of the Nobel Lauratte Wangari Mathai to c | Kenya | |
Youth Act For Environmental Sustainability |
Youth Act For Environmental Sustainability is an initiative of the teens in the YPWC MDGs Club at Najiong No 1 to embark on tree planting and community sanitation activities geared towards addressing this issue of climate change from the grassroot level and also enhancing the achievement of the MDG 7 at Najiong No 1 community in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region of Ghana. | Ghana | |
Youth Capacity Building Seminar (YCBS) on Human Right and Peace |
YCBS on human right and peace will a seminar of 15 volunteers who will be selected among Burera's volunteers for development association (BVDA) especially in his program of human right and peace. These 15 volunteers will have a serious training of two days about human right campaign, how to manage conflicts among the people in order to build peace. | Rwanda | |
Youth Empowerment Project in Bwaise Slum Area |
The overall objective of this project is to create an enabling environment for the youth of Bwaise Slum Area so that they can be self - dependent, contribute to the development of the area and be an active participant in development effort of the nation.The young population in Bwaise slum area has become the dominant group and most affected in the society by numerous socioeconomic problems such as | Uganda | |
Youth in Need is A Youth Indeed |
Activity#1: Who: About 9 children from Kaveri Youth Committee 2010 (KYC 2010) What: Volunteering for Soup KitchenWhen: April 24th 2010Where : Soup Kitchen CentersWhy : Feed the hungry and homeless peopleHow: prepare 500 Sandwiches, and deliver them to the f Soup Kitchen CentersActivity #2: Who: A Large team of both KYC 2010 children and adults.What : Re-leaf for ParksWhen :24th april 2010Where : | United States | |
Youth movement To Curb Road Accidents |
The project entitled "Youth Movement to curb Road Accidents" will involve 30 youth volunteers on Global Youth service Day who will move around Mukono town along Kampala -- Jinja highway on a peaceful demonstration spreading the gospel of road safety rules and regulations, give out flyers to taxi drivers and motorists about proper road use and the highlight of the day will be painting 3 zebra cross | Uganda | |
Zero Waste Concert |
The project will be led by Youth in Development Volunteer of Nepal Development Foundation. All of the leaders are within the age group of 17-23. A renewable energy and bio diesel powered concert will be organized. All the promotional activities will be internet based and new media advocacy tools will be used for marketing of the event. The event will be organized on April 24, 2009. | Nepal |
