Global Youth Service Day, an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day of the year through service, is quickly approaching! GYSD is the largest service event in the world and is now celebrated in over 100 countries.
This year, Global Youth Service Day is April 23 – 25.
Global Youth Service Day is a grassroots movement of youth improving their communities and changing the world - and would not achieve the scale, diversity, and impact it does each year without the tireless efforts of thousands of Local Organizers in NGOs, schools and universities, youth programs, government agencies, faith communities, and families around the world. Local Organizers play a critical role - everyone who plans, registers and implements a GYSD project is a Local Organizer. To be recognized as a Local Organizer, register your project at http://gysd.org/node/add/gysd-international.
Number of Countries officially registered to participate in GYSD to date: 71
Number of GYSD projects registered to date: 1,525
THINK LOCALLY, ACT GLOBALLY! CELEBRATE GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY AND EARTH DAY TOGETHER!
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity - an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean environment now and for the future.
This year Earth Day coincides with Global Youth Service Day and we encourage youth around the world to think about addressing environmental issues in their communities. Earth Day April 22 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, organizations and governments to join together and create a greener and healthier environment for future generations.
Global Youth Service Day is coordinated by Youth Service America while South East European Youth Network acts as Regional Lead Organizer. We would like to promote Earth Day activities in South East Europe as part of Global Youth Service Day campaign.
We can offer 5 mini grants of 200,00 Euro for materials and refreshment costs. Any youth group or organization from South East Europe can apply with any type of creative activity.
We will grant first 5 registered events, having in mind geographical balance. The events can be registered till April 25th and we invite all kinds of initiatives to be registered on GYSD map, but we can support only the fastest 5J
In addition, an organizer of the event that gathers the most people on the event will receive 2 days free of charge in house training in fundraising.
If you need an idea or resources, you can check the map of events in 2010 on http://www.gysd.org/map. Youth Service America publishes a set of posters, toolkits, and curricula guides to help you plan your Global Youth Service Day event on http://www.gysd.org/resources. Earth Day Network provides all the information you need to organize your own event, get involved, and help combat climate change on http://www.earthday.net/resources.
How to participate
1) Create an account and post your event on http://gysd.org/howtopost.
2) Send us email with name of your project and phone contact to domagoj@seeyn.org.
3) We will get in touch with you with practical details.
4) Make your results visible. Make an article, upload photos and video clips on GYSD map and other social platforms.
We wish you to have great events, nice weather and some luck with small competition:-)
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