Youth Making a Difference Workshop to inspire local youth activism

Attention students, educators, organziations and activists of all ages!

With the popular inspirational words “you must be the change you wish to see in the world” from Mahatma Gandhi, ACCESS: Allowing Children a Chance at Education has joined forces with Continental Rescue Africa to present an exciting event - the Youth Making a Difference Workshop.

With similar visions of global education and youth empowerment, CRA and ACCESS will be hosting the Youth Making a Difference Workshop on Friday, May 29, 2009 at Century Gardens Recreation Centre in Brampton, Ontario.

The day features inspiring guest speakers and a variety of local non-profit organizations (including Student Reach, Volunteering Peel & Volunteer MBC, Youth Exchange, Youth Can Move the World, Mississauga Youth Games, Change the Future Foundation, Mississauga Mayor's Youth Team, Brampton Mayor's Youth Team, Project YouthTube, ACCESS: Allowing Children a Chance at Education, Continental Rescue Africa and more).

Register Online today or learn more at www.accesscharity.ca/workshop.

The goals of the workshop are to educate, empower, and raise awareness among youth.

• Educating: Equip them with more than the passion they need to work in social justice but also with the knowledge of HOW they can join us all in creating change. Provide them with the many options available to them to volunteer and to help them in starting their own organization
• Raising Awareness: organizations which engage in development work and social justice issues such as; poverty, famine, illiteracy, gender-based violence, gender-based issues, youth activism, job creation etc. will be given the platform to raise awareness about the critical nature of these issues and how we are implicated.
• Empowering: The specific scope of this workshop will be defined by the organizations which choose to work with us to empower the youth of today about how they can make change and be apart of change in their communities.
  

This workshop has been designed carefully to compliment curriculum and topics discussed in Ontario Schools. Students will gain new insight into the knowledge they have acquired in the classroom, and will further be empowered to make a difference. Students will be inspired to make the change they wish to see in the world and empower others through raising awareness.

Registration for the Youth Making a Difference Workshop is open online at accesscharity.ca/workshop. Registration closes soon so please do so as soon as possible!

• Please invite others to the workshop through its Facebook Event page!
  
• Register Online or learn more at www.accesscharity.ca/workshop.
• Email info@accesscharity.ca with any inquiries.
  

Support Literacy during Global Action Week!

Support Literacy with Global Action Week through ACCESS Charity and the Canadian Global Campaign for Education

From April 20-26, 2009, children and adults around the world are invited to participate in Global Action Week. This year’s theme is Literacy, featuring the Big Read event.

ACCESS is promoting Global Action Week and is encouraging schools, students, and individuals to take action! A webpage has been launched at www.accesscharity.ca/globalactionweek.

Global Action Week is lead by the Canadian Global Campaign for Education, a coalition of NGOs, research institutes, faculties of education and teachers’ federations that are helping more people receive a quality education throughout the world.

The Big Read campaign’s aims to increase awareness of the struggles of those who are deprived of the chance that an education gives them in life. Unable to read, write or count, many cannot defend their rights and are often trapped in a lifetime of poverty. Around the world there are about 774 million illiterate adults, the majority being women. Occurring in over 100 countries, the week is part of a campaign to give every child and adult in the world an education by 2015.

Teachers and students have the chance to join millions by participating in the event through a variety of ways:

• Fundraise for Children in the Developing World through ACCESS
• Write About Literacy & Activism on the Speak Up for Change Blog
• Register Officially for Global Action Week Online
• Write a Petition to the Government of Canada
• Download Educator Resources and Curriculum
• Take Part on the Big Read

Consider participating in support of the campaign for Education for All and ACCESS international education projects. Together, help to become the first generation to ensure that the entire world can have a quality education!

For full details and resources on how to take action during Global Action Week, please visit www.accesscharity.ca/globalactionweek!

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ACCESS: Allowing Children a Chance at Education, Inc. is a youth-run organization aiming to provide needy children in the developing world with school uniforms and necessary school supplies, enabling them with the opportunity to obtain an education for a successful life. ACCESS also aims to educate North American youth about related world issues, and to inspire them to make a difference globally.

For more information and resources, please visit www.accesscharity.ca.

Contact:
Daniel Francavilla, President
daniel@accesscharity.ca
Kody Robinson, Public Relations Coordinator
kody@accesscharity.ca

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