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Submitted by jordynlechtenberg on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 17:46.
Our rural community of Ainsworth, Nebraska has been decreasing in population over the last decade. The YCDF is trying to create opportunities for residents, especially the youth, of our community. We think the projects we will be working on will not only help encourage young families to move back to our community, but to encourage today's youth to get involved with community improvement projects.
Submitted by marisahurlbert on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 22:33.
Students of the Mississippi-Vermont Community Comection class at Twinfield Union School in Marshfield, Vermont have been learning from a “Rights in Action” curriculum. It is a model that enables students to reflect, create and fulfill action plans while building a voice that empowers and is shaped by community. Imagine a new generation of citizen activists bridging our nation’s North and South divide, raising their voices on important public issues, and enlisting community leaders and educators as partners in the civic and political life of their communities.
Submitted by rducky26 on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 15:16.
“Anyone who can get something to grow in northern Nevada has got a green thumb.” This local saying has more than a bit of truth to it. I live in a land of extremes—hot, dry summers and bitingly frigid winters—where the native plants have only managed to exist through extreme adaptations.
Submitted by danielbachhuber on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 20:43.
The Sadhana Clean Water Project is addressing the obstacles to clean water access in rural India. With 1.25 billion people, India has the second largest global population. 226 million of these people do not have access to safe water. In the state of Maharastra in western India, and the site for our conference, approximately 700,000 people contract water-related diseases annually. The problem of clean water access is further exacerbated by competition for the limited supplies available. Demand for water in India is expected to double by 2025.
Submitted by GillieK on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 12:08.
I started a flag football program for in my community for girls my age to try to eliminate behavior problems such as fighting and bullying at school. I had been noticing a general feeling of being unhappy in some of my friends at school. I was also noticing a lot of arguing, name calling, bullying and sometimes even fighting among some of the girls. In our very rural area, we did not have a lot of outside activities to keep us occupied in or out of school. We had the school's sponsored programs such as basketball and cheerleading. However that only included a limited few, not all of us.
Submitted by smangalji on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 13:44.
These past two summers, my sister and I taught English and read books to kids aged two to six in early childhood madrassas, or, schools, in Mombasa, Kenya. The schools are a project of AKF USA, an organization that focuses on “seeking sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill-health with special emphasis on the needs of resource-poor areas.” One of the schools, called the Khairat Nursery School, was located in the city, and the other, the Rahma Majaoni School, was set in a very rural area.
