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You can expect to see the following causes at the conference. Click on "View All" to browse through the causes together, or click on their names to jump straight to one cause.
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You can come and see what other people have to offer. Bring yourself or bring a friend and if you'd like to get updates or just give us a heads up that you are coming to the conference, register with the Briefing here.
BIG IMPACT
Not wanting to present? Not a problem!
You can come and see what other people have to offer. Bring yourself or bring a friend and if you'd like to get updates or just give us a heads up that you are coming to the conference, register with the Briefing here.
Shanti Uganda Society
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presenter > Natalie Angell
Recently the subject of maternal health has been more prevalent in the news. Prime Minister Harper raised the issue to the G8/G20 and it will be the focus of the upcoming G8 meetings here in Canada. The Shanti Uganda Society works in communities in Uganda to lower maternal and infant mortality rates, reduce HIV/AIDS transmission from mother to child and improve access to education. Working with the community's traditional birth attendants we are currently in the process of building a birth house outside of Kasana in the Luweero District of Uganda and are looking for midwife sponsors.
more info?www.shantiuganda.org
more info?
Move Mountains
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presenter > Sambriddhi Nepal
Move Mountains has been organized by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Nepal. ADRA is a global network of humanitarian organizations that is currently working in more than 100 countries all over the world. During Move Mountains, several adventurers are trekking to the Mount Everest Base Camp to create awareness and raise money for the women of Nepal. The trek begins on March 31 2010. The money that the trekkers raise will be used toward a project to empower women in Nepal and to equip them with leadership skills to give them a chance to improve the world they live in.
more info?
Beryl Hartmann, ADRA Nepal - beryl.hartmann@adranepal.org
www.adranepal.org or www.adra.org.au
UAEM
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presenter > Jiyoon Koo
Why global citizenry? Why UAEM? Why should you care? Through the talk, I wish to talk about UAEM and our goal
—what we do as a group, our efforts in the past, in the present, and in the future. We are a group of like-minded student activists who will talk to anyone who will listen to us—about patents, about pharmaceutical companies, about drugs being developed for neglected tropical disease, about getting people excited for the power of humanitarian causes that we can have a say in at our very own university.more info?
Youth Education Farms
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presenter > Riley Mari
YEF is a project that develops parcels of land into small community run farms located in rural Swaziland. Profits from each farm are be used to fund elementary and high school tuition fees for orphans. In exchange for their tuition fees, YEF students attend the YEF educational course to learn basic life skills such as AIDS prevention, business skills and career planning. Upon graduation, YEF will provide it's graduates with loans to allow them to continue their education at the post-secondary level or create their own businesses with the guidance of the YEF management team.
more info?
Lingana Foundation
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presenter > Marie Ang
The Lingana Foundation is a registered Vancouver-based non-profit organization who seeks to restore peaceful, interethnic interactions between African and Arab Sudanese, Chadians and Central Africans. We seek to build local capacities for solving conflicts non-violently. Together with a local Chadian organization, our target group are youth affected by the conflict originating in the Darfur region of Sudan. Lingana's Education for Peace and Reconciliation is a groundbreaking program intended to address the devastating effects of conflict caused by violence on the Chad/ Sudan border region. The program is a result of consultation with youth, and other community stakeholders. It will impart proven conflict resolution methods through peace-building activities to integrated groups of youth. Youth who demonstrate excellence in absorbing and disseminating principles of reconciliation will be given the opportunity to continue in the program as peace traininers. Our hope is to equip a generation with the ability to continue in a non-violent civil society and build a foundation for peace in the war affected region.
more info?
NOW!
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presenter > Kevin Huang
A grassroots non-profit run entirely by dedicated youth volunteers, NOW! inspires and empowers synergistic solutions toward social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Our programs include Act NOW! (sustainability theatre) and NOW What? (sustainability conferences).
The annual Act NOW! National Playwriting Competition (debutting in 2008) is Canada’s only national playwriting competition on sustainability that engages young people across the nation to learn, evaluate, innovate and act with a splash of creativity. Partners include the Playwrights Guild of Canada, UBC Sustainability Office, Terry, Shad Valley, and the Campus Climate Network. There will be two winners for the 2009-2010 competition, one from the high school category and one from the university category. The winning entry from the university category will premiere in Vancouver, directed and acted entirely by young people passionate about theatre, sustainability, and creative solutions! These performances will also pioneer green theatre (sustainability in set and costume design, staging, etc).
more info?
Southeast Asian Archaeologies
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presenter > Sarah Youngblutt
This society was created by myself three years ago. I wanted to support a University in Cambodia so as to provide an alternative economy for a country which has been devasted by war. That economy is archaeology. Today, there are nearly 900 temples underground in Cambodia. Over 25 different countries work in Cambodian history, leading teams of foreign archaeologiests into the country and circulating information and antiquities around the world highlighting Cambodias great past. Through 5 visits to the country and my scholarship here at UBC I have learned that Cambodian graduates of Archaeology are not hired to work on their own sites, for they are not schooled to a western standard. Today I work to rise that standard in Cambodia with the hope that I may contribute to a larger trend of supporting faculties of archaeology in countries which need alternative forms of economic revenue across Southeast Asia.
more info?
Communicating Science to Combat Climate Change
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presenter > Dr. Julia Dordel
Little of the latest research to combat climate change reaches the general public while there is still time to change the way we live.
Therefore, we will be launching a web series. It is a novel approach to communicate science about combating climate change by showing the latest scientific research using a fictional FUN plot with captivating characters. We will show the latest tips and tricks about what everybody can do to reduce our ecological footprint. Revenues will flow back into a trust fund for ecosystem research and further web series combating climate change
Therefore, we will be launching a web series. It is a novel approach to communicate science about combating climate change by showing the latest scientific research using a fictional FUN plot with captivating characters. We will show the latest tips and tricks about what everybody can do to reduce our ecological footprint. Revenues will flow back into a trust fund for ecosystem research and further web series combating climate change
more info?
Dr. Suzanne Simard - Suzanne.Simard@ubc.ca
Fighting Global
Financial Inequity
Financial Inequity
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presenter > Ben Amundson
This summer, as a group of youth who act as ‘social-change catalysts’, we will be biking for the specific cause of increased food sovereignty as a means of fighting global through inequity.
As a team of 20 people, we will use our pedal power to tour 3,000 miles from Portland, OR to Boston, MA. Along the way we will be meeting with small-scale organic farmers and food security organizations to hear how they operate. Before leaving we will collectively fundraise over $15,000 for a food sovereignty cause.
more info?
Antiviolence Street Art
Gallery Project
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presenter > Mahtab Eskandari
In August 2009 a violent incident happened to me and my husband, a dramatic shift in thinking. My optimism disappeared. I became distrustful of others and insecure with myself. Once outgoing and confident, I became frightened.
These days I'm doing my best to move on with my life. Looking for a way to transform anger into something constructive, I began creating large scale paintings, which depict the incident and Iranian mythological images. Through this personal journey, I realized there are many other victims who have the same experiences.
I have started organizing an art exhibit. It's a collaboration between local artists and victims of violence. I'm amazed to realize there are plenty of artists, educators and other people who'd like to contribute their time, talent and stories to make this educational project happen. I’d like to avoid hosting the gallery indoors, to make it accessible for everyone, especially to children.
Having experienced violence first hand, I realize it can happen to anyone. I feel I have a responsibility to tell my story and raise awareness.
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