International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Initiated a great events for youth, Mainly for Red Crescent Youth! IF you are a RCY, You can apply or you can disseminate this information with others. For more info see below.
Have you been waiting for an opportunity to begin to change the world? This could be one chance for you! In 2009, through the Solferino Youth Declaration, you called the international community to action, to work with you. The IFRC has heard your call and wants to help to provide you with tools, training and opportunities that you will need to become the strong advocates and activists that are needed for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement of tomorrow.
Climate change is one of the key issues that you identified in your declaration, and our two-year climate change initiative is designed to promote youth involvement in this field and to empower your voice as Red Cross Red Crescent spokespeople advocating on climate change related issues. Through an online competition, we will identify and select 10 young volunteers from across the world to act as spokespersons for the Red Cross Red Crescent at the UN climate conference in Mexico this December.
From 15 July, we are eager to receive submissions from individual young volunteers of the Red Cross and Red Crescent who wish to take part in this initiative and advocate for positive action in response to climate change on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable people. Participants must be between 18 and 25 years old. We seek young volunteers who are aware of the climate change challenge and are already taking personal action to respond.
You can take part in many different ways: sending us photos with captions (no more than five per entry), a short video (less than five minutes) highlighting the difference made in your community, or a written account (max 600 words) of what you are doing. To speak on behalf of the entire Red Cross Red Crescent you will need a strong voice and message, so think carefully before you prepare your submission, which must be sent digitally to youth.climatechange @ifrc.org before 15 September. Those selected will need to be available to attend training in November and the UNFCCC COP in December.
We will be adding further information, tools, resources and ideas to this page in the weeks to come. Currently, this page is only available in English, but we will shortly be adding versions in French and Spanish, as well as making key information available in Arabic. We are also happy to accept digital submissions in each of these languages. You can already download the briefing note sent to National Societies available in English, French, Spanish from the attachment. For more info please visit: http://www.ifrc. org/youth/ climatechange/
For further information about the RC/RC movement please join Facebook group at http://www.facebook .com/#!/RedCross RedCrescentYouth ?ref=ts
