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I saw a show about Tanzania lately on TV, where people turned to the local witch for 3 reasons mainly: to learn about the whereabouts of stolen goods, get help for stomach problems and cow sicknesses. As 2 out of these 3 problems have been bothering me lately as well – only that I turn to the police or my own medicine men whom I believe to be more powerful – I started to wonder about the small everyday things we do to make our lives better.
I have rarely found people who are totally happy with their lives.
The sun is shining, the snow is sparkling, and life is good! At least that’s the outlook from Bergen. It’s been quite a good start for 2010, and I have now decided to go for the “two-thousand-and-ten” and not “twenty-ten” pronunciation. What have you chosen?
The word “tourist” almost sounds negative in my ears after my latest trip to Cambodia with UNF. Of course I was as much tourist as any other white person there, but seeing the behavior of others made me feel like I could not relate to them. I saw white men sitting in bars, drinking beer with young Cambodian girls.
I can sense the feeling of congress 2010. Fredrikstad invites you to one of the most legendary congress with its well kept city centre. Active and engaged people from all over Europe will come together, saunter over the lawns towards a new experience.
They can not fool us!
Will you come to Albania?
There seems to be several health campaigns going on this summer, and besides our Content matters, I would like to mention the European Commission’s Youth health initiative.
..content matters
...that´s the question!
Glevin shares with you about the coming summer camp
Linn about her trip with World Youth
Support group was based by congress in 2008. It's aim is to support
member organizations, help them to solve their problems, share ideas
between them and keep the communication with and among them.
The gloryfying of drug abuse has to stop!
Some things never seem to drop out of your mind. You can go threw it a million times, but it still stays to poison your brain. One of these things that keep my head spinning is our health, and especially youth. Mostly mentally but of course also the physical, since the two of them is rather tight connected. How do our way of living effect our health?
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From 14th of January until beginning of March Linn, our President, will be cut off from the world.
60 years ago a major breakthrough happened in the history of human rights. After years of devastating wars, the lessons learned finally paid off. United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the last 60 years the declaration has become normality, we think of the rights as something that everybody should have. But as one reads through the articles and has the curiosity to walk around with open eyes or even only pay attention to news, it becomes very clear that the reality is much more timid.
What kind of impact does it have on your life when you participate on a youth exchange? Does the length of the exchange matter on your personal development? And to what extent does it contribute to society?
Our new board has a great challenge ahead to be more open and transparent in involving as many member organisations and also individuals. We need help to make Active a better organisation and carry out our Plan of Action more efficiently.
It is fun, good and a great chance to represent Active in European Youth Forum (Youth Forum Jeunesse - YFJ)
Active is often seen as a life-style organisation, which means that we do things because it’s fun and don’t know that much about statistics on prevention, drugs or alcohol. So it felt like a challenge when the board received the World Health Organisation invitation to a public hearing to reduce alcohol-related harm – and decided to participate.
The first board meeting took place in Örebro, Sweden, a few weekends ago and we all got together for the first time –not everyone was present at the mini-board meeting we had at the end of the summer camp in August.
Wee, a blog! A board blog! Now you might be wondering what a board blog is. And it is just what you think it is. It is a blog the board is writing.
What is going on in the board since the Congress in Sweden?
