In 2022, ONE WORLD Citizens celebrated its 10th anniversary on September 25. During the anniversary event, 'The OWC Journey 2012-2022 & the next steps' presentation was shared. The activities of 2021 and 2022 were also included in this visual report. Therefore, the Supervisory Board has approved this document ‘the OWC journey 2012-2022 & next steps ‘ as Supplementary Annual Report 2021-2022, being annex to the Annual Financial Reports 2021 and 2022.
In 2023 the official status of the Supervisory Board will be formalized in the renewed Foundation’s Statutes, acknowledging the already applied practice of the official appointment of Monique van Dam as founder and board-director of ONE WORLD Citizens.
In this report we inform you about:
- the Supervisory Board members and board meetings 2021 and 2022
- the Financial statements 2022
- the 'Supplementary Annual Report 2021-2022'
- the focus for 2023-2033
In 2022, we were pleased to include John Tumaini on our Advisory Board. John is from Kenya and has an enormous amount of knowledge and experience with regard to bottom-up, community-based collaboration on basic needs for all. His specialty is water management. His second passion is game changing, developing an inclusive, climate-proof society with no one left behind.
Following the statutes of the ONE WORLD Citizens foundation the Supervisory Board has been meeting
● in 2021 on 26 January 2021; 26 March 2021; 5 May 2021; 7 December 2021
● In 2022 on 4 April 2022; 28 August 2022; 22 November 2022
Drawn up on February 5, 2023
By Monique van Dam Founder & Board Director ONE WORLD Citizens
In addition to the financial report:
* The yearly statements have been controlled in accordance with the 4-eye principles. Overall all invoices and payments have been double checked resulting in fully reconciled financial statement for 2022 (though with an insignificant difference of EUR 12.
* OWC works with the concept of setting the budget per dedicated activity based on expected costs, for which the budget is granted. With our organisation based on volunteers and youngers, the salary costs are limited so that most of the budget goes to the project itself. In case the budget is not used, the excess balance is paid back to the sponsor, so that the sponsor is guaranteed that the donation is used for its purpose.
* In 2022 Net4Kids became our partner and sponsored the Living Legends in Rwanda, Kenya and Nepal. With a grant of the Erasmus program, OWC setup the "We Grow Together" program where youngsters met in Den Bosch, Netherlands in order to exchange ideas and build a strong network. Also VSBfonds support was used in Den Bosch, Netherlands to facilitate the "Welcome in Den Bosch" program for our newcomers.
We Grow Together for an inclusive, climate-proof world with no one left behind including our Earth & future generations
#PowerOfYoungsters
#PowerOfCommunities
In 10 years we built a community based on another Mindset & Lifestyle another Mindset: UBUNTU! I am because We are
We achieve the in our own way
By making WORK of a new mindset, lifestyle, empowerment and social entrepreneurship & by making WORK of basic needs* for all.
To create hands-on good example projects and start-ups, that can be copied by youngsters in their communities, villages, cities and countries with support of us in the We Grow Together community
*Peace, ICT & internet, Water, Food, Energy, Regreening & Biodiversity
We created another LifeStyle: We Grow Together
We have chosen to build a community of young people from all backgrounds, cultures, life situations working together as a 1 Global Community for Change because Climate change affects us all.
We can only make it to an inclusive climate-proof world if We Work & Grow Together
we built a common vision and program to make We
a lifestyle, movement, community, global program & activity plan 2023-2033
Starting from the power of youngsters and their ideas for change
To learn from and with each other, to copy and scale good examples and implement them together in a sustainable way.
With the support of parents, grandparents and others as partners for knowledge-, expertise, stuff and start-up capital, who care about the future of the youngest and future generations and our planet.
Our journey OWC 2012 - 2022 you find in the next 17 slides
By & for Youngsters from 12 countries
It started on 25 September 2012
ONE WORLD Citizens!
to build a global society based on …
We are 1 World, 1 Earth
Together we create a better world with no one left behind, including our Earth and future generations!
#NoOneLeftBehind
In Loon op Zand in the Netherlands in 2013 development of the OWC concept started during a 3 days youth exchange with 20 youngsters from 10 to 30 years
OWC … what will it be about?
from thePowerof Youngsters
The 1st group of youngsters designed a name, story and organisation model for their community and platform
We share IDsforchange andhelpeach other to turn ideas into start-upslocalprojectsorforimpact andhelpyoungsters tocopyexamplesthegood countriesinall
We are …
Youth Rights
Youth Empowermentt
In 2014 we organized the 1st OWC Dialogue Event of youngsters & policy makers: these are the topics that OWC is about!
Social inclusion
Online Education
Sustianability
Technology
Socal media
Social Entrepreneurship
Global citizenship
Dialogue youth & policy makers
As a result of the Dialogue event, an OWC Youth team was invited to a 1 ½ year project @the Ministry of Sustainability
To share & feel the importance of sustainable development in co-creation with youngsters.
In 2016, we organized the International Youth conference
Youth for the Global Goals
ABOUT: How do Youngsters want to work towards achievement of the Global Goals?
The outcome of the International Conference made clear THE WAY FORWARD in 2016-2022 …
● We go for the Global Goals with the focus on 'with no one left behind', because we cannot achieve a better, sustainable world if half the world does not count and therefore cannot participate.
● We move forward, not focussed on the 169 sub goals, but by undertaking good examples of change for achievement of the Goals. By daily action, from the grassroots, from the power of youngsters and our communities.
● Knowing that nothing is impossible, everything is possible if We Grow Together!
In 2016-2017 we organised 2 Youth Exchanges with NGO’s and youth from 6 countries to find out: how can We Grow Together
Future Roots
Social Entrepreneurship: thé KEY for change Young Newcomers: KEY partners for change
As an important restult we started building the We Grow Together community of 3 groups: young locals, young newcomers, young community leaders from developing countries and homelands of migrants. To create the best possible Global change for all.
In this year we also started Awareness about the Global Goals by the Global Goals Rap Challenge in Srednje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. And we took part in the European YouthStart Award in Sofia, Bulgaria to promote the importance of social entrepreneurship skills for all youth.
Pradeep (from Nepal) and Augustine (from Kenya) came to the Netherlands and started working on ICT & Low Tech for agri innovation and water solutions
Also Karzan, Hawar and Mohammed from Kurdistan-Iraq visited the Netherlands. The OWC family feeling was born …
In 2018 we went abroad: we visited the Global Goals Action Festival in Bonn, Kenya and Rwanda to share IDs and make the UBUNTU Song!
In all our countries are yougsters with ideas for change in their local communities that we can work out together into local projects and start-ups!
Inspired by the African tradition, ‘UBUNTU! I am because WE are’ was chosen as the global OWC mindset and base of our lifestyle.
OWC went on by & for youngsters ….
Students from NL visited Pradeep in Nepal
WeorganzedGlogalGoalsHubsinNL
ICTbasictrainingstartedinRwanda
Another Youth Exchange for social inclusion
DespiteCOVID-19 we were able to start the Welcome to Den Bosch inclusion project, the ICT bus for Rwanda project and design of the Global Goals Action box.
1stcrowdfunding €3606,00!
This year we started the We Grow Together for Climate Education & Entrepreneurship movement to contribute to an inclusive, climate-proof world from the power of youngsters for youngsters.
In collaboration with partners and youngsters from 12 countries, working together on social entrepreneurship for climate solutions and the annual dialogue with decision makers for global sustainable development.
We applied for an Erasmus+ to continue the WGT project in 2023 and we received it!
From the OWC 2012 - 2022 journey we created ideas about FOCUS 2023-2033
2023 - 2033
OWC: the next steps & and 3 Key activities
By & for Youngsters in collaboration with Partners**As knowledge-, expertise-, mentoring-, stuff & start capital partners
#PowerOfYoungsters
#NoOneLeftBehind
#LivingLegends
The impressive outcome of We Grow Together 2022 created a clear vision on the 3 Key activities for 2023 - 2033
2. The 1st Centre for Climate Education & Entrepreneurship in Doorn, NL
3. An annual We Grow Together Youth Exchange program for 2023-2033
1. Living Legends School for Climate Education & Entrepreneurship
By focus on the 3 Key activities 2023-2033 we will create …
1. Access to informal education by good examples on the important climate topics that can be shared and copied worldwide.
2. Local hubs where youngsters present their projects, start-ups and current help questions and find support of other youngsters and local partners.
3. A Global community where youngsters share ideas, where all generations learn from each other and help each other to work out their ideas into local projects and start-ups for impact with support of partners who are willing to share knowledge, expertise, stuff and start capital.
By this we make it happen together!
Climate Education & Entrepreneurship for all youth to build the inclusive climate-proof world with no one left behind
If you want to join us, contact us by email: moniquevandam1@gmail.com We are looking forward to meeting & working with you!
It all starts with a good plan
We Grow Together Activity plan 2023-2033
2023 will be a year of research & co-creation!
To co-create the base elements of OWC 2024-2033
Therefore we share vision, ideas, plans and solutions in the Living Legends Community of active youngsters while …
Developing the Living Legends School & Centres for Climate Education & Entrepreneurship & meeting each other during Youth Exchanges for local and global impact and acceleration of change!
