en-uk http://www.peacechild.org Peace Child International News Feed Copyright 2008 peacechild.org News Congratulations to the 10 successful projects funded by Be The Change! this October. The following projects were awarded funds: Argentina: MovilizaT Paraguay: Jugando juntos aprendiendo la cultura y tradicion Peru: Raices solidarias Portugal: Young Radio BUS FIXE Moldova: Reading means enriching Nigeria: Bakori clean drinking water Tanzania: Installation of solar panels at a new village school India: Reducing the practice of female infanticide and foeticide Pakistan: Solar-Powered telemedicine inrural Pakistan India: Jute Bag-making and production centre All of the projects proposed were amazing and it was very tough to make a decision!! So thank you all for your project ideas. If you would like feedback on your projects then do not hesitate to contact your regional Desk Officer. Once again, Congratulations to those who were funded and we look forward to hearing how the projects progress. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:29:15 -0800 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=9 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=9 News The Deadline for the October Be The Change! call has now passed. Any projects received now will go into the March 2009 call. A big thank you to all the applicants! We are currently reviewing all the applications now ready for the decision meeting on Saturday 8th November. Successful applicants will hear from us shortly. We are especially excited about the volume of European appplicants, we have never recieved so many! Thanks for all you hard work and amazing ideas. Watch this space for more news!!!! Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:49:29 -0800 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=8 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=8 News Young Consumers’ Guide to Eco-Friendly Living UNEP and UNESCO Announce a New and Updated Edition of the Popular YouthXchange Training Kit  How to balance looking cool and feeling cool with the need to combat climate change are among the key tips in the new United Nations YouthXchange Training kit. This updated version of the guide also gets to grips with the mountains of waste emerging across the globe as a result of today’s fast throw-away society from mobile phones to fashion YouthXchange has been translated and adapted in 19 languages and is available in a bilingual (English and French) website –www.youthxchange.net . Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:03:08 -0700 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=7 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=7 News Sustain me up! is a campaign raising awareness for sustainable lifestyles through funny short videos with a key message Check out the facebook group and post a contribution: http://www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=28139553589 They invite everybody to post his/her contribution in this group as well as the youtube group: http://www.youtube.com/group/sustainmeup So get involved and show that it's possible to start with small actions that could make a big difference to the world. So shoot, cut, post your video and hope you have fun! Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:38:15 -0700 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=6 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=6 News During the 14th until 21st September Peace Child staff Tanya, Dana and Sofi took part in the “Naturalent- sustainability in practice”, United Games Austria. The event brought together around 100 young people representing Europe, Asia and Latin America. As members of Peace Child International they had the opportunity to give a workshop about sustainability showing the importance of starting with small actions in order to make a big difference in the world. Naturalent gave the chance to the delegates to participate in different workshops during 3 days. One of the results is a booklet about Climate Change and the impact in some communities where Tanya and Dana were actively involved. Meanwhile Sofi helped to kick off an interesting campaign called “Sustain me Up!” that invites young people to give a sustainable message through short and funny videos! To get involved either write to sustainmeup@unitedgames.org, join the facebook group “Sustain me Up!”  or visit the Youtube United Games group! Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:49:00 -0700 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=5 http://www.peacechild.org/news/read/?nid=5