Environmental

Environmental activities and Community Service

Young people constitute a large part of the world’s population. This young generation is particularly vulnerable to environmental risks associated with, for example, access to clean and safe drinking water. In addition, young people will have to live longer with the consequences of current environmental decisions than will their elders. Future generations will also be affected by these decisions and the extent to which they have addressed concerns such as the depletion of resources and the loss of biodiversity.

It would be imperative that youth from all parts of the county participate actively in Environmental activities because it affects their lives today and has implications for their futures. In addition to their intellectual contribution and their ability to mobilize support, they will bring unique perspectives that need to be taken into account. Strengthening the participation of youth in environmental protection is partly a matter of increasing opportunities in governmental organizations, established NGOs and restoration projects; partly a matter of youth themselves devising new forms of action, as the preceding examples of innovative activism make clear; and partly a question of more effective environmental education and media presentation of environmental issues Under the community services it should involve more than just fundraising but should also seek to involve and engage the broader community. Moreover, this entails working with the executives responsible for charity and social justice and fulfilling their responsibilities. During the course of the year, the Community Development Director is responsible for organizing at least one major event relating to this mandate.