To:
ROTARY & ROTARACT CLUBS
Berlin, 30 June 2015
INVITATION FOR COOPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP for spreading YOUTH LEADERSHIP among our global young generation at school Youth Leadership means „recognizing and training children and teens as change agents in their communities“. This goes beyond service-learning. Youth Leaders today achieve things like these: Xiuhtezcatl (15) mobilizes young and old for protecting the Earth and climate for our children, reanimates the sacred warrior values among indigenous youth. His speeches at Bioneers conference and the high level event on climate change at the United Nations are being called the defining speeches of his generation, are going viral in many languages. Robyn (13) has made 27 city councils pass the 3-pronged „Blue Community“ resolution: keeping water public, making it a human right and banning bottled water. Rhiannon and Madi (16) made Girl Scouts, Kellogg's and Wilmar adopt sustainable palm oil policies. Avalon (14) teaches climate, habitat, species protection through planet-friendly diet. Cassandra (15) has 150 restaurants recycle grease to biofuel, making $150,000 for social causes. Emma and Julia (15) have raised 77,000 books for 49 aboriginal communities, healing historic cultural divides. Gabrielle (16) has raised free, fresh foods for food banks by ten times, has four thousand volunteers. There are more, and their solutions can be replicated by young people everywhere! WHAT WE DO YOUTH-LEADER unites dozens of youth leaders with replicable model solutions under one banner to bring their uplifting stories, role model, solutions and support to our global young generation at school in 18 languages – through print, digital and online media, teaching tools, methods and services, such as „Live on Skype“ meetings, webcasts on UN Days, YL student club comunity and collaboration with visionary adult changemakers and experts. Our leadership program „Change Generation Rising“ empowers young people to grow up implementing sustainability solutions with the hero/ines of today with community and cross-platform reality game features, value for their CVs and personal futures, and even fit for use as non-formal curriculum across subjects and units. The solutions for peace, sustainability and abundance for all exist, and the good new world we all envisage is already happening around these changemakers. Together, we can take it everywhere. ROTARY has been a trusted partner of many young changemakers in our program, supporting their endeavours, composing the Rotary Peace Song with german girls band 11 Wie Du and honoring Babar Ali, the youngest headmaster in the world, with the ROTARY World Literacy Hero Award 2015. We know Rotary as a strong actor for development work, but also for youth mobilization at local level, as mentors for (social) entrepreneurship (Launch Detroit) and positive change media. WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER As we are now forming a global community to step up our service to our global young generation - we would like to build on our strong history of collaboration with ROTARIANS and ROTARACT clubs by • sharing our solutions, network relations, knowledge and „live“ services with your members • collaboration as local partners for connecting with schools AND mentoring inspired youth ROTARIANS share something unique and precious with the young people in YOUTH-LEADER (YL). It is pure and unconditional commitment to the cause, without personal gain and hidden agendas. As founder and „steward“, personal friend and ally of the splendid youth united in YL, I fiercely guard this quality benchmark - since nothing less will bring us to the future that we all desire. I would be delighted to explore collaboration with your distinguished organization - for the kids of the world. I invite you to browse our extraordinary Portfolio online, to select your favorite interactions, and get in touch. Sincerely, Eric Nicolas Schneider
Images & Voices of Hope IVOH Award 2012 UNESCO Round Table for the UN Decade of ESD
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