GES Project Challenge: CACTUS - Community Action Ukrainian Style

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-05-06 13:32:00 UTC
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Summary: This project will provide 80 already active youth in Western Ukraine with the basic knowledge, means and eagerness to implement their 1st projects and get actively involved in changing their community

Project Needs and Beneficiaries: Our country, Ukraine, is plagued by numerous problems many of which derive from not caring and not willing to get actively involved in the lives of our communities. With the CACTUS seminar we aim to bring up a new generation of ambitious youth leaders, who really care and want to make the lives of their home communities better by providing them with the knowledge, enthusiasm and means to do that

Activities: We will hold classes on the subjects of project planning, teamwork, leadership and critical thinking as well as provide many practical opportunities at and after CACTUS for the participants to see their potential, abilities and real change they made

Each weekday between now and May 8th, I'll be posting one or two project profiles of students participating in the annual Global Engagement Summit-GlobalGiving Project Challenge. The Challenge is a chance for students from around the world to raise money for and spread awareness about their projects. Students that mobilize also have a chance for additional matching resources. If you're interested in supporting this work, Tweet or blog about it or visit the project homepage on GlobalGiving.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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