Posted By:  vincehof Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008	Making Friends With Places
“If you come in silence to a place, you come as an enemy. If you come singing, you come as a friend”. Have you ever greeted a place? Have you ever asked permission to enter a lake, or climb up a mountain? If so, who did you ask? Someone wise once told me...... [view]

Posted By:  Badiaa Posted On:  Jul 20, 2008	Call for Action : Scottish Medicines for Gaza blocked in Al Arish / Appel à Action : Médicaments Ecossais pour Gaza bloqués à Al Arish
From the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Français en bas) 1.5 tons of medicines from Scotland to Gaza are now a few metres outside the gate into Gaza at Rafah on the Egyptian side of the Israeli-built wall that has enclosed the peopleof this area, mainly refugees, for decades....... [view]

Posted By:  urssulasss Posted On:  Jul 9, 2008	Mermaid stories
Here is one of my favourite stories of mermaids. I'll put in three different versions of it. Which one you like best, decide for yourself. Enjoy reading! ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. The Crofter and the Seal-Woman There once was a young...... [view]

Posted By:  Amac Posted On:  Jun 19, 2008	CIVICUS Youth Assembly & Europocket.TV
Take a look at the cover of the coverage of the CIVICUS Youth Assembly provided by Europocket.tv ... [view]

Posted By:  Amac Posted On:  Jun 19, 2008	World Have Your Say Program From CIVICUS Youth Assembly
World Have Your Say: 18 June 08 Are we over-educated? Today's agenda was set by youngsters from all over the world attending the Youth Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland. They wanted to ask the question: Are we over educated? Won by a good margin. One comment we heard was: "The more educated we are...... [view]

Posted By:  Amac Posted On:  Jun 17, 2008	CIVICUS Youth Assembly, Day Two
Day two started off strongly with registration and finally delegate name tags, this helps someone like me who always forgets a persons name when meeting so many new people in a large group. The opening plenary was underway by 9am and then we quickly moved into our color coordinated groups for...... [view]

Posted By:  Amac Posted On:  Jun 16, 2008	Just Arrived At The CIVICUS Youth Assembly
Just thought I would make a quick post that I have arrived at the World Youth Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland. It has been a long day so far with my 5am wake up to get things packed into the van and then all the Peace Child International inters piled in and we made it to Glasgow at around 2:30ish....... [view]

Scottish Youth Parliament
Submitted By:   stevenk Website:  http://www.syp.org.uk Phone:  +44(0) 131 313 2488 E-mail:  info@scottishyouthparliament.org.uk	Vision:   The stated vision of the Scottish Youth Parliament is to work, with others, to deliver "a Scotland in which young people realise their potential, become full and active citizens and play a key part in all decisions which......   [view]