Tchekwie
Canada | 29
I am extremely passionate about Indigenous issues, and all facets of Indigenous struggles. I have worked in Treaty Land Entitlement and Specific Lands claims, which allowed me to gain invaluable knowledge of the legal systems for First Nation land claims in Canada. However, this was not the beginning of my introduction to Indigenous politics. I grew up in a home that was surrounded and... (read more)

Canada WSIS Youth
The Canadian youth WSIS strategy has been constructed around the general framework proposed by the WSIS Youth Caucus in its Guide to Creating Your Own National Youth Campaign. While geared at the full range of youth in Canada (age 16-30),... (read more)

Youth Engagement Toronto Forum - Building a Community of Practice
Youth Engagement in Ontario: Towards a Community of Practice Forum. The goal of the forum was to share learning, expand networks and explore collaboration for capacity building within youth engagement. (read more)

Hand Over Hand
http://www.hand-over-hand.org (coming soon) Hand over hand is an organization run by youth with a simple goal in mind: to cause awareness of disabilities and to create a "crossing over" process for an individual to express empathy rather... (read more)

University of Regina Arts Students Association
To offer Arts students at the University of Regina a way to become involved in issues that interest them and that they are effected by. To develope cohesion and interaction between students pursuing degrees in the diverse disciplins encompased by the Faculty of Arts. And, to build bonds that can... (read more)

Rainbow Youth Centre
The Rainbow Youth Centre's Mission is to involve youth 11-19 years old (to 25 in extended programing) in creating a safe, caring, healthy and adaptive community of support by sharing responsibility for recognizing, accepting and developing personal skills. The Rainbow Youth Centre is a United... (read more)

South Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre
Check Your Head will work with The Belonging Initiative and TakingITGlobal to design a participative action learning process whereby young people with a broad range of abilities and disabilities are brought together to explore the task of ending isolation and loneliness. In 2007, this project... (read more)