“It’s Your Turn!” project

April 18, 2013

“It’s Your Turn!” project

 

a) Statement of Objectives:

 

This project aims to celebrate the young people, serve their community through a small act of kindness, share belief in the power of youth and raise awareness of youth in Kyrgyzstan about ecological service day during the Global Youth Service Days by organizing 25 events.

 

b) Statement of Need:

 

- Project goals:

 

1) Actively participate in GYSD mission in supporting the idea of running the campaign for 3 days by raising awareness about green and ecological importance of the action to the population throughout Kyrgyzstan.

 

2) Raise awareness about youth service towards the preservation of the earth to the next generation by organizing 25 events during these 3 days of GYSD.

 

3) To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of GYSD by involving as many students in 7 oblasts as possible through workshops, motivation sessions and eco-oriented activities.

 

4) To support an ongoing relationship among alumni of the US State Department exchange program FLEX and its 20th Anniversary through effective communications and meaningful experiences with the population throughout Kyrgyzstan in order to generate multifaceted support for goals of the programs and the development of our society.

 

- How they will be achieved:

 

The project is planned to take place in 10 sites of seven oblasts of the country: Naryn, Talas, Issykkyl

( Balykchi and Karakol), Osh, Jalalabad, Batken ( Kadamjai and Kyzyl-Kiya), Chui, and Bishkek city and will last for three days, i.e. April 26-28. There will be 25 events focused on the promotion of the GYSD ideas in the communities and involving the youth into real actions to change the place where they live into a “Better world” More than 2500 students and community members will be involved into these events.

 

The coordinators of GYSD events will find the needs for each community and work out the plan. After that the action plan for 3 days will be worked out and recruitment of the youth there will be done.

 

Two FLEX alumni of different years per site will be responsible for the preparation and the realization of the plan in their site and will work together with some of the US DOS alumni as well as the active representatives of the youth in these oblasts. These activities will be in various formats: workshop on ecological themes, handcrafting with recycled items such as paper, plastic bottles and used banners from advertisement billboards.

 

The organizational team plans to shoot a film about what the alumni and the youth can do in their

communities to change the life for better before the event. The film will be shown to the participants

of the actions during the trainings and workshops the first day of the event in every site. The aim is to

motivate and raise awareness of other youth on GYSD goals through workshops, service day and

handcrafting by reusing paper and plastic as a resource. At the same time, a film about GYSD, youth

in Kyrgyzstan and their service to the community with FLEX alumni will record all these 25 events.

This film will be also dedicated to the celebration of anniversaries of 2 great programs and also will

be dedicated to those who will participate and got educated and trained on service day.

At the same time, the republic contest on the best posters devoted to the GYSD goals will be launched.

The first three best posters will be printed, and the winners will get small prizes. These posters will be

used in the communities during the GYSD events to promote the ideas of serving the community,

volunteering and protection of our environment.

 

Every participant of the GYSD activity will receive a GYSD pin that will be designed by the

NGO “MoveGreen” activists.

 

3 days of activities will be divided into 3 idea stages:

-          The First day will be dedicated to ecology of personality (self development and inner self enrichment). This day will be mainly about on HOW to change and be more open towards the green generation by inspiring and motivating youth through various activities. Creative activities such as handcrafting out of recycled items will impact on thinking of youth towards more on self educating and self development.

     

- The Second day will be focused on healthy lifestyle, i.e. physical ecology. This day will be dedicated to training and providing workshops on healthy living without smoking, drinking an alcohol and doing sports. Active exercises through games such as scavenger hunt and sessions on healthy lifestyle will impact on youth’s behavior to participate in sport activities.

 

- On the third day the youth will be taught in Ecology of youth environment (physical environment of youth, community service). To sum up the whole process of youth service day the students will actively participate in cleaning certain areas, decorating certain area in need and planting flowers in their own communities.

 

Thus, the youth in Kyrgyzstan will have 3 days of chain in ecological service day through thinking, behaving and acting.

 

Events:

1. Information campaign and recruitment of alumni coordinators for GYSD in 7 regions.

 

March 10-March 20

2. Shooting the film about the activities that changed the communities and what the youth could do. March 10-March 20

3. Poster competition (March 10-April 1), results announcement (April 10), printing the best three posters (April 15)

4. GYSD pins designed (March 15-30), made (April 10)

5. Poster Competition winner awards purchases ( April 10)

6. The selection of GYSD places and determination of places for 25 activities for 3 days.

 

March 20- April 1.

7.Developing 25 action plans and information campaign in communities by recruiting participants for GYSD. April 1-April 10th

 

8. Preparatory trainings by the MoveGreen activists for the teams that will work at the sites

 

April 20

9.GYSD campaign of 25 activities and celebration of 25th of Anniversary start simultaneously in all 7 regions from April 26-28.

 

10. Winners of the poster competition are awarded at the ceremony (done at the sites where the winners are from)( April 26)

 

11.Making video and reporting on GYSD of 25 events. May 1-May 30th.

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