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TakingITGlobal's mission is to empower youth to understand and act on the world's greatest challenges. We can't wait for you to get involved!
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."- Victor Hugo. The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is a music festival taking place on June 21, the summer solstice. Music is the sound of a society, of a time and a place. It articulates the ideas and emotions that "cannot remain silent." This refusal to remain silent is why music has so much social power. To celebrate world music day, we invite you to explore the connection between music and social change.
We See Things Differently is a youth led, collaborative campaign to collect and connect our stories, our visions and our efforts to remake the world within one generation. We want to hear from the young leaders around the planet: What is your vision for a better world? What issues are important to you and what you doing about it? How can we get involved to help you take action? Join us on World Environment Day, June 5th for a kickoff webinar, or share your story through TIG's #WSTD Global Gallery and Panorama Sets
Global Dignity Day Canada brings together role models from across the country to inspire and encourage students to make dignified, positive, and inclusive life choices as they develop into their best selves. The goal of this year's event is to highlight dignity as a vehicle to unify and broaden our sense of community, and instill the notion that one's actions can impact and enrich the lives of others. We're looking for youth role models who are examples of living with dignity to be featured in the Global Dignity Day Canada celebrations this October. Do you have someone to nominate? E-mail us at [email protected]!
In the words of Kofi Annan, "Illicit drugs destroy innumerable individual lives and undermine our societies. Confronting the illicit trade in drugs and its effects remains a major challenge for the international community." To honour the June 21st Day we invite you to read Panorama articles about drug addiction and to get involved in The Youth Network for Harm Reduction.
Adobe Youth Voices ignites young people's Creative Confidence - the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems - with advanced digital media tools and powerful storytelling techniques. The 2012-2013 collection showcases work by youth in 22 countries including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Egypt and Canada. Visit our Adobe Youth Voices Global Gallery collection to see how young people are using their creativity to change the world!
There are over 20 million refugees in the world many who have fled their countries due to civil wars and ethnic, tribal and religious violence. On June 20 join us in honouring World Refugee Day to focus not only on the causes of their exile, but also on their determination and will to survive and on the contributions they make to their host communities.
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My greatest inspiration comes from young people who have active involvement in community work. Community is the venue through which creativity can be fueled.I’m inspired by people who struggle through starvation from day to day. Great designers inspire me too, which is why I spend a small fortune on books.
I take inspiration from the hurdles we face in our life, the challenges that carve a niche of existence for us every other day when we are tried by life's different aspects. The way we deal and say I am not going to give up here, I wanna move on. Set up new goal and bend our back to get there even if the...
The challenges we face as an African country as young people as individuals who face opposing forces of what is right and what is wrong,our abilities to discern between good and bad. I am inspired by the resoluteness and silent but constant strength that we as young people have shown to fight and fight...
When people realise that they have been given the ultimate gift, which is 'life', and they realise that what they do with their lives is completely their choice! When people take their lives into their own hands and do something extraordinary with it despite not so favourable odds. When people realise that...
I am inspired by people demonstrating strong motivations, working hard and never giving up their goals. These people, although often are confronted by some unexpected obstacles in their courses of life, still hold firmly on to their dreams and/or ambitions and strive for them. These people are the ones who...
I am a technical professional currently working as System Developer in SoftwarePeople, Dhaka. I have graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka 2 years ago. Beside my profession I am active in various technical communities. I have participated in the Microsoft Imagine Cup in...
At the young age of 12, Kehkashan Basu from the United Arab Emirates, has attended Rio +20 among other international conferences, founded Green Hope UAE - her own organization, and, last February 2013, she was elected as one of the Global Coordinators for the Major Groups for Children and Youth.
Most definitely TIG is the perfect forum for people to brainstorm and interact in every sense of the way. It allows the natural progress to prevail. I have made some interesting links through this site and I know that the best is yet to come. And now that I have a project of my own, am positive that I will...
The aim of the Do One Thing campaign is to build a world movement and to express public support for Diversity, building inclusive societies and enhancing dialogue and understanding among people and cultures. Check out the campaign's facebook page and sign on to our featured commitment to learn about other cultures.