IHTEC - Getting Started for Youth NGO's

Get started: Youth groups and NGOs

IHTEC welcomes youth around the world into the world of the International School Peace Gardens (ISPG. The aim is to educate peace and sustainability, and to effectively restore the Global Commons, by planning, planting and dedicating ourselves to Global Sustainability Education, in a peace garden. If your school, village, town, city already has a peace garden, I am sure that you will be welcomed into that sacred space. Here are some things that you can do:

1. Download and print the ISPG brochure on light green or white paper. This is on this blog.

Translate it if needed, and forward it to ihtec@3web.com

We will upload it to the IHTEC site, where it will be available for your future use. You are welcome to use the black and white logos on all new brochures and materials. Please contact ihtec@3web.com

2. Read and print the "Next Steps" page on the ISPG Teacher Resources.http://www.ihtec.org

3. Contact your local schools and give them a copy of the ISPG brochure.

4. Ask them if they have a School Peace Garden and if not, if you could help the students design and plant an ISPG.

5. Make sure they register on the IHTEC website.

6. You can suggest that you would be interested in forming an ISPG youth club to discuss what sustainability and ecological peace (A. Rapaport) is and how everyone can join in meaningful activities.

7. In an ISPG Diary, with other youth, write down all the global problems that are happening where you are.

8. Visit your local government officials and ask them what they can achieve about the problems. They may already be working on some of the things that you have experienced.

9. If they haven't begun, then ask your local government officials how you can help them to get the work done, and to ensure that in future, we protect and sustain our land.

10. Dedicate your activities in your ISPG.

11. Hold an event to highlight a global commons concern.

12. Create awareness posters and distribute them.

13. Write an article for the media and invite the media to attend.

14. At the event invite all your local officials, to hear about your ideas and achievements.

15. Ask your local government to make a list of everyone's achievements.

16. Email IHTEC and tell us what you did, and receive your IHTEC International School Peace Gardens Award.

Expand your ISPG related activities to the full scope of sustainability. Get in touch, find support, connect and cooperate with other committed youth in your region.

Well done !

We thank you for your participation.