Repro Free: Dublin Wednesday 21st November 2018. Ireland must embrace the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and young activists have a vital role in making this happen. Thats according to young people attending the Youth Summit on Activism and the Sustainable Development Goals in Dublin today (21.11.18). Almost 200 young people from around Ireland met to share their ideas and find out what youth activists from Cork to Kenya have been involved in. Organised by Concern Worldwide and the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), with the supported of Irish Aid, as part of celebrations for One World Week and World Children's Day, to raise awareness about the Sustainable Development Goals. Pictured are Molly Donnery, Emmanuel Okoye, Christopher Akpaloo and Neil Handly. Picture Jason Clarke
This online resource (phase 1), maps current Development Education and SDG focused youth work across the country.
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This is a tool to begin to identify some of the Development Education activity across the youth sector.
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If your work should be on the map, let us know: contact sally@nyci.ie
Youth 2030 – Development Education in the Irish Youth Sector
Development Education in the Youth Sector aims to support young people to increase their awareness and understanding of the interdependent and unequal world in which we live, through a process of interactive learning, critical thinking, debate, action and reflection. It challenges perceptions of the world and encourages young people to act for a more just and equal society at a local, national and an international level. Find out more about Youth 2030 or read this helpful guide to the SDGs and youth work.
