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The United Nation's Global Goals for Sustainable Development has 17 goals out of which Goal #4 is Quality Education. The goal is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. To make it possible to achieve this goal, 10 targets are laid out to create on-ground action.
The targets that we work towards are to enable youth to be more conscious and responsible future global citizens. We do this through a volunteer-driven youth movement that spreads awareness, fund-raises through events and organises camps in 3 themed areas - self-exploration, environment-consciousness and responsible entrepreneurship.
While we understand the importance of working on each of the targets, at the outset we are focusing on the following:
Target: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
How do we work on this?
1) Equal number of boys and girls attend our camps.
2) Youth volunteers are trained on leadership skills to be change-makers in the community.
3) Project GROW has themed modules that have collaboration with partner organisations that work with youth and vulnerable sections of the society (children in government schools).
4) Indigenous communities are part of our immersive camps.
5) Our camps include youth and adults from all sections of the community, regardless of economic/social backgrounds.
Target: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.
How do we work on this?
1) Environment-consciousness camps are structured to include practical methods of living sustainableand mindful lifestyles.
2) Our youth community is trained on peaceful activism through unwavering compassion using Zen principles along the lines of 'Nurturing the innocence of a child while cultivating the fearlessness of a leader' .
3) Tools, as part of our camp curriculum, towards sustainable development are inspired from diverse traditional cultural aspects of our country.
If you would like to volunteer with us OR want us to organise a camp in your school/college OR you would like to collaborate with us as an organisation or educator, we would love to hear from you! Please reach out to us at careers@karunachal.org