What Can I Do? Youth
Inspired by Arn Chorn Pond? Find out more about ways you can help.
- Change.org: Empower Youth. "Change.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe. Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects likeminded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to address the issues they care about." (http://www.change.org/changes/change_page/353)
- CRIN for children. "This page is for you to learn about children's rights and issues relevant to children's rights, such as the environment, the internet, armed conflict, etc. Here you will find the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the international document explaining the rights of all children in the world, information about CRIN, and links to all sorts of games, quizzes and fun activities on children's rights issues." (http://www.crin.org/forchildren/index.asp)
- Free the Children. "Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education. Through our organization's unique youth-driven approach, more than one million young people have been involved in our innovative programs in more than 45 countries." (http://www.freethechildren.com/)
- Idealist.org. "Over 45,000 nonprofit organizations from around the world use Idealist to list information about the work they do. This information includes their mission and how to contact them, volunteer opportunities, internships, resources, and services that they provide." (http://www.idealist.org/kt/)
- UNICEF Voices of Youth Campaign. "Voices of Youth is an Internet site created by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for young people who want to know more, do more and say more about the world. It's about linking children and adolescents in different countries to explore, speak out and take action on global issues that are important to them and to creating a world fit for children."(http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/rights/explore_rights.php)
Preventing Genocide, Promoting Peace: A Podcast Conversation with Arn Chorn Pond
On April 11, 2008, three Facing History and Ourselves students had a conversation with Cambodian Genocide survivor and peace advocate Arn Chorn Pond. Arn spoke passionately to the students about his personal history, the choices he has made to "Be the Change," and his thoughts about how each of us can play a role in preventing genocide.
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