- Global Kids
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Children & Youth, Education
- Mission Statement: Global Kids (GK) is committed to transforming urban youth into successful students as well as global and community leaders. Using interactive and experiential methods to educate youth about critical international and foreign policy issues, GK provides students with opportunities for civic and global engagement. Through its professional development program, GK provides teachers and educators with strategies for integrating a youth development approach and international issues into their classrooms.
- DramAide
- Region: South Africa, Africa
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Media, Public Health
- Mission Statement: The DramAidE project uses drama methodologies
to critically engage young people to communicate effectively about issues
relating to sex, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. DramAidE aims to equip young people
with increased knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the skills to inform and communicate
with others about sexual health. The goal is to create a network of peer
educators that practice safer sex and other positive behaviours, and initiate
a social movement that promotes healthy lifestyles.
These peer educators are organised into clubs. These clubs provide a platform for them to undertake health promoting communication campaigns through generating ‘action media' and undertaking health promoting projects more broadly in their communities. ‘Action media' are plays, posters, songs and dances that have been created by young people through a participatory process.
- Save the Children
- Region: Vietnam, Asia
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Poverty, Public Health
- Mission Statement: In 1990, Save the Children received an unprecedented
invitation from the Government of Vietnam to help address widespread child
malnutrition. The result was a groundbreaking effort pioneering the "Positive
Deviance" approach — discovering, learning from and promoting the practices
of poor families whose children were thriving while children of other families
with access to the same resources and environment were not.
"Positive Deviance" not only became a hallmark of our work in Vietnam, but is the model we use to address children's malnutrition in other countries. From this foundation, we have broadened our focus in Vietnam and today work in 10 provinces, reaching children and women in both rural and urban areas.
- International Center for Tolerance Education
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Tolerance
- Mission Statement: The Third Millennium Foundation is a private,
not-for-profit foundation located in New York City. The Foundation was founded
in the year 2000 as an initiative for unlearning intolerance in the new
millennium. It makes grants all over the world and focuses on childhood
education and human rights with emphasis on supporting social entrepreneurs
among global youth.
The Foundation's principal goal is to support initiatives designed to promote tolerance and human rights, particularly among the young. Its work is focused on developing young children's understanding of and respect for the differences that exist among themselves, especially those related to culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The Foundation's program builds on research findings demonstrating that gaining self-control and the ability to relate positively to others is developed in early childhood. In the field of human rights the support is mostly through fellowships in order to bring new leaders into the field.
- Fundacion Escuelas de Paz
- Region: Colombia, South America
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: The Peace Schools Foundation is a collective project headed by a team of interdisciplinary professionals since October 1997. It is part of a national and international Network of institutions that work in for the promotion and disclosure of the Culture of Peace.