Links

justgeneration.ca / PWRDF

Partner-Organizations Led by Youth!

• CoCoSi (Committee Against AIDS - El Salvador)
• Anglican Church of Tanzania - Youth Against AIDS
  (Tanzania)
• Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (Philippines)
• Redwire Native Youth Media Society / International Indigenous Youth Conference 2005
  (Coast Salish Territory ['Canada'])
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) - Youth Council (Nishnawbe Aski Nation ['Canada'])
• Anglican Church of Burundi - Diocese of Bujumbura (Burundi)
• Jagorani Cultural Foundation "Children's Haven" Shelter Home

Anglican Youth Links

• justgeneration.ca's facebook group.
• Generation: The Anglican Church of Canada's Youth Site.
• Ask & Imagine: Leadership Development Programs for Anglican Youth.
• Episcopalians for Global Reconcilliation's: U2charist resources.
• Anglican Chaplaincy at the University of Victoria.

Organizations: Social Justice & Faith - Partners and Friends

• PWRDF The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund's website.
  
• Families for PWRDF A site aimed at families with children aged 8-15. Here, you can download the 2008 Family Calendar as well as find tons of information and links to help you get the most from the calendar.

• JustYouth: The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace's Youth Site.
• DEEPER: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada's Youth Site.
• justas the Youth Initiative of PWRDF, justgeneration.ca is a proud member of The Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Their site includes great stuff including "In Exile for a While (refugee simulation)" as well as many other great youth resources and multimedia stuff.
• Stop the Killings: A campaign PWRDF has endorsed to stop persecution and extra-judicial killings in the Philippines!
• Codevelopment Canada Resources: Acclaimed resources designed to reach students to educate around global issues such as child labour and community development.
• KAIROS: Canadian Churches respond to social justice through advocacy.
• Micah Challenge Youth Site: An evangelical initiative from the Global South to make poverty history - the Canadian Council of Churches is a member.
• Manitoba International Council for Cooperation Youth Site: justgeneration.ca, as part of PWRDF is a member!
• Saskatchewan Council for International Council for Cooperation's Youth Site (YouthBeat): justgeneration.ca, as part of PWRDF is a member!
• The Student Christian Movement of Canada: Since 1921 SCM has been linking issues of faith and social justice from an ecumenical perspective. They partnered with us on the SOA pilgrimage and have a member on our youth council. Their general conference, SHINE!, was held in Toronto in May of 2009.
• Environment Justice Camp: Happened in May 2007. Part of an ongoing series of (Anglican-based) Justice Camps that justgeneration.ca has partnered with.

Resources for Trips and Delegations

• Canadian Churches Forum on Global Ministries: Includes good resources on short term missions available for ordering as well as training programs for overseas 'mission' trips which are worth checking out.
• MissionPrep is a more evangelical approach, recommended to us by Rev. Lance Dixon, an Anglican Priest who has taken their courses.

Resources for Global Education and Action

• Check Your Head: Youth Global Education Network educates young people on global issues by looking at the connection between global events and issues and local realities.
• Get Global! Teacher's Guide for global citizenship aimed at 11-16 year olds. Produced by Oxfam UK.
• Apathy Is Boring - includes "The Youth-Friendly Guide to Intergenerational Decision Making Partnerships."
• Fire It Up Manual Produced by the Youth Action Network.
• LaSiembra Fair Trade Cooperative What in the World is Fair Trade? An educational toolkit.
• Transfair (Fair Trade) Youth Resources for fair trade education.
• CAFOD (Catholic Development UK): has some great resources, including multimedia ones.
• World Vision Canada's education wing has some great stuff on social justice issues - check out the flash presentation on water, in particular.
• The United Church of Canada's Websight Games: Simulation games where global realities are simulated on a small scale.

Groups Who Run Delegations

• Global Youth Network has been working with local universities, churches, and youth groups for almost a decade, putting together teams and taking them on short term trips across Latin America, Africa, and the Balkans. These are centred on the relationship between faith in Jesus and peace & justice for the poor and oppressed around the world.
• SALT is the Mennonite Central Committee's unique 11-month cross-cultural immersion experience for Christian young adults from the United States and Canada. Service assignments are available in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean and the Middle East.
• One World Global Education is a cross-cultural, cross-class, immersion living and solidarity work program founded in a Catholic liberation theology model. Participants live with families and communities who experience economic poverty and political oppression. We volunteer with local leaders who have visions for change.
• Time For God (TFG) is a U.K. based 'gap year' service program (with overseas opportunites) which has the patronage of the Anglican Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu
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Other Interesting Links:

• Digiactive is a website dedicated to promoting social activism through social media. Blogging, Twitter, youtube, flickr, and many more sites can be used creatively to engage in activism campaigns!
• Taking IT Global is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities.
• the UN's Millenium Development Goals Site.
• Geez Magazine - Holy Mischief In An Age of Fast Faith.
• Episcopal (Anglican) Church USA's One Campaign to make poverty history.
• School of the Americas Watch: stop the repression in Latin America! - join the yearly vigil in November
• The Water Project is a project started by a United Church youth minister partnering with the people of the village of Adexor (Ada-ho) in the Volta Region of Ghana. Also check out the related "Well" a play by Wade Lifton - 'Two youth. A conversation. Faith. Water. Life.'
• SP(HERE) a 'multimedia-driven concert' integrating live music with an array of synchronized imagery, video segments and creative storytelling. Introduces and exploring issues of poverty, globalization, development and environmental consequence.
• Cured Not Cursed gives Canadian youth the opportunity to become aware of the leprosy situation in the world today and change the lives of people with leprosy by raising funds to provide them with the cure, all the while wearing a mitt on one hand to share in the stigma and limitations of leprosy.
• The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, downloadable, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

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