Tag Archive for: youth citizenship

Green Straw and Climate Change

LONG LIVE THE COCONUT! No, I am not trying to impose a new religion with the coconut as a supreme deity, I am just extremely impressed of the numerous ways this huge nut can be used in people’s lives not only as food, but also as an eco-friendly alternative of non-degradable materials. Turns out that […]

Mental Health Brings Wealth

Today was a very interesting day. Woke up this morning and I don’t know what we was gonna do. We ended up going to this college, called Saint Xavier‘s. At this college we met up with a very nice psychologist, who recently graduated from college. Apparently she has been working so hard for a long […]

A New Form of Knowledge

So yesterday, we had a session on youth inclusiveness. We did many activities and played many games which all had a deeper meaning. Sitting down after the fun, I really began to think about the purpose. One of the common denominators was that we, the youth, took problems into our own hands and made our […]

Today’s Theme: Mental Health

Mental health and mental illness are two different meanings. Mental health can be understood simply as emotionally and well-being. Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changing in thinking, emotion, or behavior. I really enjoyed this secession because it made me think clearly of what my emotions were. Today, my emotions were calm, tired, and excited. […]

Mental Health

Today my group had a mental health workshop! I was nervous and didn’t know what to expect, but by the end of it, I was glad to share this experience with my group. When we first came in we learnt the difference between mental health and mental illness, often times people confuse both terms. However, […]

Ecological Sustainability: Our Last Hope

Today we learned about ecological sustainability. Their is a problem on our hands in today’s society and is called global warming. As society tries to deny this truth with false facts and phony politicians who are funded by big corporations which are the major causes of this issue. The major problems used to be called […]

INCLUSIVENESS

Today I learnt some techniques to spread knowledge. Sauhard team came up with some different acts about how youth are excluded. I learnt about Fifth space . It is a space beyond Family, Friends, Education and Leisure. We had some fun activities. The session was so creative and interactive with each one of our ideas. […]

The Brave Naveen

Today my group visited the amazing Naveen. Honestly our session was sooo good. What he’s doing is so important!!! Our group had a whole debate and it was very interesting! The focus was specifically on casteism and the treatment of Indian people. He informed us on how the Dalits are treated and that he is […]

Power

I have a question for you all. If there is your Island ,How will you make it values and rules in Island that you want to change your Island? Today we 6 members make our own Island with different thoughts, opinions. We named our Island IGNITE. In our Island we want: 1. School 2. No […]

In the world of politics & casetism, one effort to move on

Today we learn a lot of about the politics & casteism. It was an amazing day for me. We can forget the day. We can forget the guy but we can’t forget today’s knowledge. Because I don’t know how explain it but I’m explaining…I’m explaining that we started the season at about 9.30am but we […]