Webinar: Less water, healthier plants: Controlling irrigation with soil moisture sensors
Author: pragwater
Taller de Hierbas Medicinales y Aromaterapia
95+19 Youth Conferences
Over the next few months, 114 youth conferences will be held at locations throughout the world. The purpose of the conferences is to inspire and empower a generation of youth who are transforming their communities through acts of service. In large part, these youth represent a group known as Junior Youth Group animators. Animators lead small groups (5 to 15, ages 11-15), through a training process, which will enable them to become youth leaders and a positive force for transforming the world.
Check back here periodically to see new photos from the conferences as they become available.
Youth attending the conference in San José, Costa Rica. Youth from Central America and Puerto Rico are attending this conference.
Youth from Papua New Guinea traveling to their Conference.
Youth from Puerto Rico Arriving at the conference in San José, Costa.
Cali, Colombia Youth Conference
Facilitators arriving in Frankfort Germany, to plan the Frankfort conference.
Santiago, Chile
Burundi Youth Conference
Brazil Conference
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Building Communities on a Global Scale
Frontiers of Learning Video
This video presents examples of Baha’i community development projects in Colombia, Canada, India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Active projects currently exist in thousands of communities around the world. The implications of these projects for the future of society cannot be overestimated. Transformations are occurring on the level of culture and youth are actively engaged as leaders in these projects.
Stand with Malala
We are in the middle of an Education Emergency:
At this moment there are 57 million children without access to education and millions more who aren’t learning in school. Working together, we can lower that number to zero by 2015.
On July 12 — less than a year after she was shot by the Taliban for her strong voice in this fight — Malala Yousafzai will mark her 16th birthday by delivering the highest leadership of the UN a set of education demands written by youth, for youth, to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
We can’t stand on the UN floor next to Malala — but we can all stand with her. Sign this letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to show your demand for emergency action in support for Malala’s education fight.
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Why Have Student Loans At All? Let’s Get the Burdens of Debt off College Students’ Backs — And Make Wall St. Pick Up the Tab
Higher education used to be free for millions of Americans. A transaction tax on the financial houses would make it free again.
July 2, 2013 |
Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Wall Street took down the economy, killed millions of jobs and hasn’t had to pay a penny for the damage it caused. In fact we are paying them for crashing the economy in the form of trillions in bailouts and low interest loans. Read more…
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An Epidemic We Need to Stop
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a study regarding global statistics on physical and sexual violence and the related deaths of women. The information the WHO released proved that physical or sexual violence affects a third of all women…globally. They rightfully consider this an epidemic.
Of course, one can assume that such violence against women occurs mostly in third world nations, or nations experiencing war, and that would be a mostly correct assumption. One would think that a nation such as the U.S. would have the lowest statistics, they would be right, but these statistics are by far not low enough. The percentage differences between the most violent regions and the least is less than 15 percentage points apart.
So the questions remain: why is this happening at all, and why is this such a huge problem in the 21st century? Why is there no…
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