Action: Call for participants to the Thousand-Word project on MDGs World Youth Centre (Canada) and UN Habitat ***************************************
BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE: THE 1,000 WORD PROJECT CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: The World Youth Centre (Canada), in cooperation with UN Habitat, is launching a new global initiative and we invite you to take part! The World Youth Centre aims to engage young social entrepreneurs in social, educational, cultural, development, mind-body, and growth activities both locally and globally. The Thousand-Word Project is an international mural project based around the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This project is uniting young people around the world in a common focus that is at the sametime unique to each country/city/locale. For more see http://www.beautifulstruggle.org The uniting theme for this project is two words: Beautiful Struggle. Young artists from across the world will focus on one of the MillenniumDevelopment Goals and bring to life their interpretations of that goalthrough depicting the attainment of that goal as a beautiful struggle. The project will be two-fold. The first stage will take place as the international mural program. The second stage will consist of the artists involved being interviewed by our chief writer on why they chose that particular MDG as part of her research on each locale. This 2nd stage will culminate in the publishing of a book to be distributed throughout junior-high schools and high schools as an educational tool. This book, titled "Beautiful Struggle: The Thousand Word Project", will feature each mural created across the globe and will be accompanied by thousand-word essays on the locales and problems that young people face in each participating region, relating to the Millennium Development Goals. United Nations Millennium Development Goals: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Develop a global partnership for development What we are looking for: We are looking for either individual artists or community based arts groups that are interested in becoming a part of this global and groundbreaking initiative by painting a mural around one of the Millennium DevelopmentGoals in their own locale. For more information or to be involved, please contact: Javid Alibhai Project Coordinator cell +1 416.564.0239 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If we fight, we may not always win, but if we don't fight, we will surely lose." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SAVAD RAHMAN subeditor,MADHYAMAM daily, pooppalam, perinthalmanna,kerala, india cell:(91)-9846085873
