Global Youth Service Day Activities

-Bangladesh
During Global Youth Service Day (15 -17) bEARN will organize a two days work camp outside Dhaka and a cleaning campaign in Dhaka City.

-Egypt
Hosni Mubarak Secondary School for Boys, Alexandria, Egypt. Community Service Week at the end of March (27 March - 31 March). We are honored to have had other schools participate in the event.

Hosni Mubarak School. Community Service week. Activities included: painting of blackboards, computer lessons, lessons on hygiene, visits to elder homes, blood donation drives, tree planting, all culminating inan awards festival.

-India
(Schools are out in April so students conducted activities in March). Hyderabad- Madapati h.rao.girls High School -
School Book Collection- Girl students of std. IX and VIII have gone to various graduate students of our school and collected old text books, and story books, and Question Banks for the presently running schools book bank. They intend to supply these books to the economically underprivileged female students for the coming session starting from June 2005. They have collected around 200 text books for all classes all in good condition, and around 30 story books, and 25 question banks. The effort of going all the way in hot summer to their places for collection, and is really laudable. They said that they felt very happy that they could do something for their fellow students. The school is also planning to:

1. take up Traffic control for the day.
2. participate in serving the mid-day meals to children in primary schools.

Lions Vidya Niketan School in Washem, India is planning to contribute for YOUTH SERVICE DAY and present some project on CHILD LABOUR.

Other projects in India will include:
1.Exhibitions of the posters made by students to create awareness for saving water, reusing and recycling.
2. Students saving money out of their daily expenses and contributing towards Tusnami affected areas.
3. Student rally in the town appealing to people to contribute towards schools from affected areas.
4. Survey on hospital waste management.
5. Cleaning the lake, near a tourist spot.

-Morocco
March 29, Latifa Bouhlal of Lycee Abdelkrim el Khattabi High School shared, "My service day will be organized March 29. My students have agreed to participate in planting some flowers around the school gate! I'll 1st teach students how to plant, 2nd sensitize them about voluntary work to awaken in them the spirit of hope necessary to make their community a better place!"

-Pakistan

iEARN Pakistan, as a part of its BRIDGE program, collaborated with Cardinal School Lahore for engaging students in community service projects to mark the Global Youth Service Day. Naila Khan from the Cardinal Public School facilitated and coordinated the 6 weeks long project under the iEARN-PKs ongoing Youth Volunteering and Community Service Program . She worked with 200 youth from 9 schools of Lahore and their teachers who designed and worked on different community service projects from 1st March to 15th April 2005. The project outcomes were shared on the Global Youth Service Day Award Distribution at Defense Community Hall Lahore on 18th of April. iEARN-Pakistan presented shields to participating schools and certificates to honor the participating youths. Click here for the GYSD details from Pakistan .

-USA
Palo, Michigan. Judy Huynh. (BRIDGE Master Trainer) is planning activities for the school.

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New York City, NY. George Washington High School, Law and Public Service, NY, NY: Our Moroccan visitors and host students did a service project on April 2 in a park. (The students return to Morocco on the 16th) April 16, approximately 35 people including teachers from the BRIDGE Master Trainer Exchange and students from Jordan on the LINC exchange will visit New York City Community Centers to do clean-up and other work. Riverdale Park Restoration - April 16, approximately 15 people including teachers from the BRIDGE Master Trainer Exchange and students from Jordan on the LINC exchange will be planting trees.

-Uzbekistan

1. Location: Karshi
School: 34
Activity: Conducted training on Children rights topic under the Model UN - iEARN project
We (Karshi school #34) are planning to apply for an IEARN grant to complete a project "Children's rights", 3 students of our school has elaborated a plan of trainings about rights of children for Karshi schools,to conduct a forum "What do you know about childrens' rights", and arrange an interview with a lawyer in order to figure out the "protecting children's rights" activities in our city, in result students will increase the importance of knowing their rights and create a web site dedicated to their activities and childrens' rights in general.

2. Location: Ferghana
School: Parvoz
Activity: iEARN club participants together with Peace Corp volunteer will conduct African Heritage festival under National Heritage - iEARN project.

3. Location: all cities
School: possibly all schools
Activity: iEARN Uzbekistan will conduct an online camp for selected students. The main goal of the camp will be environmental issues.

4. Location: Termez
School: possibly all schools of the region
Activity: iEARN Uzbekistan will create an online forum between
schools in Termez and US schools on cultural diversity topic.

5. Location: Nukus
iEARN Uzbekistan will create an online forum between
schools in Nukus and US schools on environment issues.

Karligash Ishanova of Gymnasium #1, Nukus shares, "I`ll be very happy to find a partnet school who wants join our Global Youth Community Day activities, which we are going to work over "Live without problem" project. We've begun our activity on March 22, 2005 and it will continue till April 23 in coorperation with schools #33, Nukus and #19, Xalkabad, with Charitable Fund of "Susutainable Development" of the Republic Karakalpakstan and Non-Governmaental Organization of Disability People of the Republic Karakalpakstan, also with Nukus city Department of the Youth Civic Movement "Kamolot" under control of iEARN Club members (students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages).The steps of our activity are:

1. Round table with the partners and the participants of the project to discuus about the realization of the project.
2. Distribute duties among the participants.
3. Gather the applications for seminar-training will be organized by our partner and PCV Volunteer, Grahm Harlow and Japan Volunteer Keiichi Sato on theme: "How to be Volunteer for local NGO?", "How to write small grants?" and "How to solve problems?" The participants of the traning will be selected by their applications. After the training we'll create Karakalpak iEARN Group of the Republic Karakalpakstan.
4. 3 days training for selected participants. 5. A day action: "Live without problem". As the result of the action we are going to create "iEARN Exhibition"
6. "Are you a Volunteer?" to involve the participants to the Charitable Fund of the sustainable development of the Republic Karakalpakstan.
7. Create the web-site for our project.
6. Location: Namangan - Online forum between schools in Namangan and US schools on education topic.
Those three events are not yet scheduled on exactly date but will take place between April 5 and April 19, 2005.

Contact: For more information about participating in these or other iEARN projects, write to iearn@iearn.org.