ENO Climate Change Campaign Week, 14 - 20 February 2011
GHANA NATIONAL YOUTH CSOs COALITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The Ghana National Youth CSOs Coalition on Climate Change was formed in August 2007 in Accra after series of consultation with a number of youth groups in the country.
The formation of the coalition was triggered by the consistent environmental and climatic situation affecting the development of young people and the country as a whole. Some of these worse situations which were bedeviling the country were the shortfall in the nation's major energy source; the Akosombo Dam due to the rainfall pattern, this had an adverse effect on industries and homes. Another was the flood that hit the three northern regions which rendered many homeless and destroyed many farms.
In view of this crisis and poor management of the environment, Abibimman Foundation, a youth based organization working on environmental issues in Ghana then decided to form a common strong youth front to work on climate change which had then become a global issue in-order to prevent the worse from happening in the country again. This was what gave birth to the coalition.
The coalition which is been hosted by Abibimman Foundation has a mission of engaging young people to effectively preserve the environment and control climatic changes. The coalition which started with a membership of four has now increased to fifteen with effective networking.
RULES:
1) Topic for play is climate change
2) The play must be 100% made by schools including the manuscript
3) The duration of play is MAX 10 minutes
4) All the actors must be kids, under 18 yrs old
5) Language must be English or play can be carried out without speech
6) This is not a video contest: schools just record their play.
7) The play must be recorded as avi or mpg file and sent either with an electronic file transfer service ( yousendit.com, sendthisfile.com etc ) or via postal mail (in CD or DVD). You must include following information:
The deadline for submissions is 31st of December 2008 (postal stamp). Postal submissions are delivered to
ENO Climate Change Campaign
Pataluodon koulu
Pataluodonkatu 4
80160 Joensuu
If you send your file electronically please send the information to mika@enoprogramme.org
8) Plays will be evaluated by a Finnish jury. The results of contest will be published on the campaign website on campaign week, 19 – 25 January 2009. ENO Programme reserves a right to use this material later on as a promotional material with a mention of authors
GLOBE ProgramENO Programme has been greatly influenced by GLOBE Prorgam. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system. Please find more information on GLOBE here.
GLOBE's Climate Change Research Campaign
This campaign will empower students, teachers and communities around the world to realize their individual and collective potential to impact one of the most challenging issues of our time. Planning for the worldwide GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate Change will occur over a 2-year period, beginning in January 2009. The Campaign will be launched with a major media event in 2011 and will culminate with a high-profile international student research conference in 2013.
Learn about climate-change misconceptions by GLOBE scientist etc here!
