Petition Tag - youth

Το ανεξέλεκτο ωράριο λειτουργίας των νυκτερινών κέντρων αναψυχής αναγκάζει την νεολαία της Κύπρου να ξεκινά για έξοδο τα μεσάνυκτα με αποτέλεσμα να τελειώνουν τις πρωινές ώρες.

Σας αποτέλεσμα η νεολαία μας βρίσκεται στους δρόμους στις 4-5 το πρωί να οδηγά εξαντλημένη από το ολονύκτιο ξενύκτι.

Το αποτέλεσμα αυτής την συνήθειας είναι τα εκατοντάδες δυστυχήματα και οι νεκροί.

Θα μπορούσαν πολύ απλά τα κέντρα διασκέδασης να ξεκινούν από τις 22.00 και να κλείνουν στις 3.00 το πρωί.

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AID KENYA FOUNDATION-KITUTU COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER/KITUTU OVC CENTER:

AID Kenya Foundation, a nonprofit, and humanitarian aid and development assistance charitable foundation in Kenya.

The foundation is working with local communities, and collaborative partners to build the Kitutu Community Resource Center to empower rural-urban orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC), teenage girls/mothers, and in and out of school youth in the areas of education, health-care,sports, talent development, mentorship and vocational training.

Already, The Foundation, through the Humanitarian Aid & Development Assistance Program, supports hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children and teenage mothers to access educational opportunities, shelter, health-care and psychosocial support; It further supports many teenage girls to get regular supply of sanitary towels just keep them in school and increase their self esteem; Kenya is currently experiencing a societal breakdown, where in every household, there is a teen mum some at the age of 12 with a baby or two.

The Center shall cater for OVCs and teen mums from across Kenya, and will have an a Community Outreach Program.

As a matter of urgency, the Foundation is building the Kitutu Community Resource Center/Kitutu OVC Center, with the following objectives:

1. Teaching teenage mothers on motherhood, nutrition, parenting and reproductive health;

2. Rehabilitate teenage mothers involved in alcoholism, drug and substance abuse;

3. Offer vocational trainings like tailoring, hairdressing, computers and ICT, arts, and Embroidery;

4. Create awareness on dangers and risks of teenage motherhood, HIV/AIDS and STIs;

5. Provide quality health-care to both the mother and child;

6. Distribute sanitary towels and pampers to schools, homes, and in public;

7. Offer a back-to-school reintegration program to embrace formal education by providing scholarships;

8. Provide guiding and counseling and psychotherapy;and

9. Build self-esteem, confidence and courage.

The Center will also host the Kitutu OVC Center for the kids of teen mums and support those OVCs who are enrolled in public schools supplying kids with pens, pencils, shoes, back packs, books, crayons, etc.

CONTACT:

For feed back or volunteer, partner or donate, contact, Tel. +254 729 32 44 29 or E-Mail: or < aidkenya@gmail.com > or .

DREAM TEAM: The following is the Dream Team Managing and Coordinating the Project:

1. Armstrong Ongera, Jr.-Executive Director
2. Patricia Kadesa- Project Manager
3. Melissa Cheruiyoti- Corporate/PR/ Communications Manager
4.Seba Nyakundi-Program Manager/Volunteer Coordinator
5. Sheila Shinto- PA & Chief of Staff


DONATION REQUESTS AND SOLIDARITY:

1. MPESA-0729 32 44 29

2. IN-KIND:

AID Kenya Foundation
P. O. BOX 5956-00200
Nairobi-Kenya.

NOTE: A volunteer or supporter, can donate time, and expertise, in creating awareness about the Center, as well as mobilizing resources, or volunteering on the ground.

3. WIRE TRANSFER:

Any Voluntary Donations can be sent by WU or wire transfer to the following Bank Account:-

A/C Name: AID KENYA FOUNDATION
A/C No. : 082-1430151
Swift Code: BARCKENX
Bank: BARCLAYS BANK OF KENYA
Branch: Haile Selassie Avenue,Nairobi,Kenya

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Kenya National Youth Association (KeNYA) is a national voluntary, nonpartisan, and membership-based empowerment organization whose mission is to “Serve the Nation and empower the in and out of school youth with skills and know-how as well as teach and engage them in creativity, innovation, volunteerism and civic education in the areas of democracy, human rights, entrepreneurship, independence, peace and non-violent conflict resolution, and to combat negative ethnicity in rural-urban Kenya’’.

Under the Kenya Democracy Project(KDP),a program Promoting Peace, Community Service, Interdependence & Non-violent Conflict Resolutions, KeNYA and partners are implementing a Civic and Voter Education Project /Every VOTE Count Project (GOTV Campaign) with an overarching and overriding goal of educating the youth about the Constitution, Voter Registration, and Voting Rights. We believe that for Kenya to avoid violence, the votes of every voter must be counted, and that the process must be free and fair.

Furthermore, the citizenry including the Kenyan Diaspora, must be fully educated about the elections, and the electoral laws and rules that will govern the Electoral Process for Presidential, Gubernatorial, Senatorial, Parliamentary, and Women/County Representative seats.

Effectively, KeNYA has embarked on the 12 Month (January 1-December 31 2012 Period) Every VOTE Count Project 2012 (GOTV Campaign), where we shall educate everyone about the electoral process, without bias, partisanship, or inclination, beginning with a Petition:

‘We, the Undersigned members of Kenya National Youth Association (KeNYA), partners, and the stakeholders, call upon the free and patriotic citizens of the Republic of Kenya, the Government, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), to conduct a FREE and FAIR Elections in 2012 General Elections, free of violence, with sufficient CIVIC EDUCATION, and where EVERY VOTE will be COUNTED, including that of the YOUTH, WOMEN, DISABLED, and most important, that of the Kenya Diaspora, in the eyes of the Civil Society, Local and International OBSERVERS’’

For partnership, membership, or volunteerism, contact:

Executive Director/Coordinator
Kenya National Youth Association (KeNYA)
P. O. Box 5956-00200, Nairobi-KENYA

Tel. + 254 722 233 234
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KenyaNationalYouthAssociation
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Kenya_1Flag
E-Mail: or
Skype: Kenya_1Flag
<<<>>Pamoja Tutashinda!>>>>

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Our youth are engaging in more and more dangerous behaviors everyday. When school is out, most of our youth do not have anywhere productive to go. This is because most our youth are not involved in outside activities.

Youth Centers can help keep our kids off the streets, out of harms way, educate them, and still provide them with fun and productive activities.

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Currently, youth on Extended Care and Maintenance are supported from age 18 – 21, we need to support them to age 25 Most youth are still in postsecondary school until age 25, therefore we need to support them through their education Education is the foundation of success – we want our youth to be successful !

We currently tell youth at age 18 that they must live on their own even when they are not ready , this needs to change When their legal status changes to crown wardship we are their corporate parent. We must do what good parents do!

Do good parents stop supporting their youth financially and emotionally at age 21? Youth tell us “YOU can do better” WE can do better, we have an opportunity to make change NOW Please sign this position to document your support of extending ECM to age 25.

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Ever Since MySpace changed it has lost a big part of their users, many of them complain about missing the old MySpace and how they need to change it back.

Old MySpace - let's us express our creativity as teens and also adults, it would benefit MySpace as well as the users.

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Children across Australia, from as young as six years old are bringing home school work.

Some schools are giving students over two hours of homework each week night and more on weekends.

Children and youth are attending school for six hours a day. When you calculate their homework load on top of that they are working the equivalent of an average adult working day, somtimes more. This is stopping many of them from pursuing childhood activities like playing while it is still light outside, social activities, sports and participating in quality family time.

Then there is the addition of performance anxiety when doing assessment and assignment tasks and exam stress throughout high school.

The unrealistic workload for children and high expectations to perform academically for youth is having an emotional and psychologic effect on them and their families.

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In the Centralian Advocate on the 9th of September, it was announced that 'hundreds' of signatures have been given in support of a youth 'bed-time' curfew for youth aged 16 or younger.

Having this curfew will drive young people out of the CBD, and into rural places surrounding the town. This is a more dangerous situation for young people to be in.

Also, a youth curfew will divert the Police's attention away from their core police work.

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The Arches Youth and Community Project previously ran a local youth club from two Arches on the Evelyn Estate. We first secured use of the building way back in 2002 and have been using it ever since.

In March 2008 Lewisham Council asked for the keys to be returned and a few months later another group was allowed to used the building.

We have written to Council representatives on numerous occasions and even though it is clear that we have been wrongly evicted, our complaint is yet to be upheld.

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Daventry Phoenix Youth Centre is at danger of losing the vast majority of its youth services and it’s only Youth and Development Worker due to funding cuts.

We need your help to show the Phoenix Centre Committee and the Daventry Town and District Councils that these cuts will be devastating to the Phoenix Centre and the Youth Team within it.

We ask that you sign this petition and ask others to do the same, to prevent losing the crucial services the Daventry Phoenix Youth Centre provides to the youth of Northamptonshire.

Your postcode will be used for statistics by the petition team, and not shared with anybody else.

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Support for Bellbowrie Pool Manager to open a community centre with in early 2012 or create a "youth club" on the site by rebuilding the old residence or build a brand new one.

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There has been a promise of amenities for young people in Trowbridge Wiltshire for many years. Many promises have been disappointed.

There are stark few resources for young people, but The County Town of Wiltshire has failed its young people for many years. Even now, in these challenging financial times failing young people is a big mistake.

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We demand Equal rights for everyone, whomever they love!

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that " All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.

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The services for same-sex attracted youth (Evolve and Inside Out) offered at the Adelaide Youth Health Service The Second Story (TSS) may soon be cut due to restructuring and reallocations of funding.

These services provide important support, education and a crucial opportunity for same-sex attracted youth to meet other young people and 'belong' within a confidential and safe space. The services have been running for over twenty years and there are no other similar services in Adelaide.

The cutting of the services seems to treat queer young people as if they are not an 'at-risk' group. However, queer youth are greatly overrepresented in suicide and homelessness statistics (1 & 2). A recent Australian report shows the importance of social support groups on the health and wellbeing of same-sex attracted young people (3).

South Australia's Youth Strategy for 2010-2014 already acknowledges that 'targeted responses are often required to meet the specific needs of different groups of young people, in particular those who... are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer (GLBTIQ)' (4).

South Australia's "Strategic Plan for 2020 and beyond" further lists state visions and goals to
'educate young people about healthy living'
'advocate for and protect vulnerable people'
‘[foster a] a sense of place, identity, belonging and purpose'
and have the government 'work[ing] to protect and support those who are most vulnerable in our community' (5).

Cutting the Evolve and ISO services for same-sex attracted young people would directly undermine these goals.

The petition supports the ongoing survival of the groups and the highly important and positive impact they have on the lives and health of same-sex attracted young people in South Australia.


(1)
http://www.lgbthealth.org.au/sites/default/files/Alliance-LGBTI-Suicide-20101118.PDF

(2) http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/assets/downloads/wti3_web_sml.pdf

(3) http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/assets/downloads/Eval%20support%20groups%20August%2007.pdf

(4) http://www.officeforyouth.sa.gov.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=iMG1iscin3E=&tabid=710

(5) http://www.stateplan.sa.gov.au/assets/documents/627/Snapshot%20summary%20of%20CEB%20Report.pdf

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This year Ardrey Kell has fought hard to start their own chapter of a Gay-Straight Alliance in their school. After much hard work, they have had the success of forming a reliable club in which gay, straight, bisexual, and transgendered youth all collaborate in an effort to provide a stable, safe, and productive environment for LGBT youth and their straight allies.

In their short lifespan the AK GSA has contributed in many ways to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district including, but not limited to:

-Joining together existing, nearby GSA's in our school district and networking them, something that has never been done before.

-Creating many successful inter-GSA social events that have brought awareness to many LGBT issues, such as: anti-bullying, harassment, trans-issues, gay-issues, teen suicides, LGBT rights, and the growth and importance of an educated youth.

- A committed team of students who find the opportunity to interact with similar, like-minded youth in a positive, and productive manner.

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For the past 15 years Nevada Diving Club (NDC) Has operated out of Lombardi Rec Center under the coaching guidance of Jianli You. Paying a pool rental fee for usage higher than the norm for diving clubs throughout the country. Lombardi is THE ONLY facility for the diving club to practice.

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Campaign4Change (C4C) is a nonprofit organization founded by Mr. Otis Lyons in 2002, whose mission is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all citizens and improving the image of our communities through extensive community service efforts to educate, empower and change the negative mindset of today’s youth and families.

C4C focuses on reviving morals, goals and dreams to help restore hope back into the community. C4C offers services with the goal of significantly impacting the direction of peoples lives in Durham by reinforcing core values, implementing outreach productions and workshops that are designed to deter youth from gangs and drug dealing activity, encouraging positive work ethic and ensure that disenfranchised families and youth in Durham are exposed to opportunities and resources that will help rise above mental and societal limitations.

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This year, the grade 10 science teachers have decided they do not have time to teach the climate change unit that is in the grade 10 curriculum. While their reasons for being behind schedule this year are legitimate, units such as climate change and ecology are consistently rushed, undervalued or abandoned altogether at Lawrence Park CI.

It shouldn't be this way and it doesn't have to be. Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time and our generation needs to know about it. To make sure that this vital unit is not neglected in the future, a group of concerned students has started a petition for LPCI students and parents to sign.

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The Phoenix Youth Centre in Prestwich is in risk of being closed down by the Bury council. The Phoenix is there to give support to teens that need it, people with problems with their sexualities, home life, school life and problems in general.

The Phoenix supply's the teens of the local areas with support, fun, something to do, somewhere to make friends and keeps them out of trouble. They also provide an after school and breakfast club for primary school students which are both very popular and helpful to the local working parents, they also support the local children with disabilities.

If this facility is closed down, their is no alternative for the people that need it and their needs will be unmet.

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RCASA needs your support to show that the tobacco industry continues to target young people in communities across Massachusetts by constantly changing its tactics to get around laws and regulations that protect youth.

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The AIDS Committee of Durham Region (ACDR) launched a new awareness campaign directed and designed by youth. The Cover your C**%K, Protect your P*&%$Y campaign was launched in January 2010. The safer sex campaign contained valuable information surrounding youth and HIV/AIDS.

In November 2010, The Durham District School Board (DDSB) banned any material containing the image of a Cat and Rooster which appeared on the campaign from entering their schools.

This has resulted in Durham Region youth being unable to receive this proven effective safer sex messaging and education on behalf of the ACDR at DDSB locations and events.

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Katimavik gives Canadians between 17 and 21 years old the unique opportunity to take part in an intensive six-month volunteer service program. All Katimavik volunteers work for not-for-profit organizations that play an important role in the development of Canadian communities.

While on the program, volunteers live with 10 other youth in one or two different regions of the country and benefit from a stimulating learning process that focuses on developing competencies related to civic engagement, work experience, interpersonal relations, healthy lifestyle, cultural discovery, official languages and environmental stewardship.

Katimavik allows youth to develop their competencies, gain valuable work experience and discover new places while making a difference in communities across Canada and learning their second official language.

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Katimavik offre aux 17-21 ans la chance de participer à un programme intensif de service volontaire d’une durée de six mois. Les volontaires de Katimavik travaillent pour des organismes sans but lucratif qui jouent un rôle important dans le développement des communautés canadiennes.

Pendant le programme, les volontaites vivent avec 10 jeunes du même âge dans une ou deux régions du Canada, tout en bénéficiant d'un contexte d’apprentissage stimulant axé sur le développement de compétences liées à l'engagement citoyen, l’expérience de travail, les relations interpersonnelles, un mode de vie sain, la découverte culturelle, les langues officielles et la protection de l'environnement.

Cette expérience unique permet de développer des compétences, d'acquérir une expérience de travail pertinente, de perfectionner la langue seconde et de mieux connaître le pays, tout en faisant une différence dans les communautés d'un bout à l'autre du Canada.

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Over 19,000 layoff notices were given to teachers throughout the state of California, a state that has seen periods of crisis similar to such before. An Educational cut of this magnitude will effect classrooms throughout the state substantially.

"These current cuts are sure to push us further down the scale. Our future depends on our ability to prepare the next generation for success in the hyper-competitive global economy. The budget crisis and the teacher layoffs we are now witnessing makes that challenge much, much harder. In order to deliver the quality education our students need we must get off this budget roller coaster and find a stable, long-term solution to education funding. Our future depends on it."

Jack O'Connell- State Superintendent of Public Instruction

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We are looking to Moose Cree to make an initial investment into this project. If need be, we can also look into other avenues of financial support.

Please support a Recreational Facility for our community.

Such a facility would foster literacy, education, employment, physical activity, health and wellness and would help to build strong families and a stronger community.

***Please make sure to scroll to the bottom of this page and click on blue button to sign your name on the petition. Thank-you.

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This spring, a panel will decide whether to approve construction of a new nuclear power plant at Darlington, Ontario (east of Toronto).

Nuclear power plants are dirty, risky and expensive – and not necessary to meet Ontario’s electricity needs.

Help stop this new nuclear plant by signing this petition and sharing it with other youth (age 20 and under).

Youth will deliver the petition to the Darlington Joint Panel on Friday, April 8. Join us: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168996803150961

Find out more about nuclear power at http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/publications/arguments-against-darlington-proposal-new-nuclear-reactors

ADDED RESOURCES:

Two views on Fukishima Crisis and nuclear power:

Duncan Hawthorne, Bruce Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Ryuo6o6yo

Norm Rubin, Energy Probe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekELvKbu5ec

Two environmentalists - pro and con

Bill McKibbin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/18/japan-horror-thin-edge-climate-change

George Monbiot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima

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Youth Insearch provides a powerful program that inspires young people, through the support of their peers, to make better choices in life. They are often products of alcohol and drug abuse, sexual abuse and violence. Many have turned to crime and considered or attempted suicide.

Youth Insearch is empowering these young Australian’s to turn their disadvantage into an advantage. 44% of those attending Youth Insearch had attempted suicide. (60% have thought about it!) After attending the weekend programs, 97% of young people report no longer feeling suicidal.

But as demand for the program increases, so too does the need for further Government assistance. Only 20% of Youth Insearch is funded by Government and thousands of ‘at-risk’ young people cannot receive the support they so desperately need.

Youth Insearch has requested Government funding of $601,200 per annum to help 1900 young people who desperately need it. This equates to the Government contributing $316 per young person.

The cost for not helping these young people is estimated to cost between $3.8m and $30.4m per annum in health, welfare and legal costs. The moral and financial logic is so compelling that Rotary and Lions are joining together to support a petition to the Government to significantly increase funding for Youth Insearch.

FOR THE SAKE OF THESE DESPERATE CHILDREN WHOSE LIVES ARE ON A KNIFEDGE-PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND SEND IT ON TO ALL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

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Choateville Christian Church is in need of a new youth leader. Jacki F. is an experienced leader that has been recomended by the youth of Choateville.

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Oasis Centre For Young People, (previously know as 'The Boys Club') has been in existence since 1965. It is a very well used club that over the years has opened its doors to lots and lots of young people offering a safe and enjoyable place to meet and be supervised, whilst taking part in a wide programme of activities.

Lots of different groups still use the Centre today and without it we would not be able to continue.

Please sign our petition to show your support.

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We, young leaders and professionals herein gathered at the International Youth Leadership Summit (IYLS) from 18-19, November 2010 at the KICC, Nairobi bringing more than 300 young leaders from all over the world, in partnership with the Government of Kenya and the UN Habitat.

AFFIRMING that young people form the majority of the world’s population at more than 60% and are inherently faced with the world’s greatest challenges, and noting with concern that young people continue to be excluded from mainstream society and decision making.

RECOGNIZING the necessity to take youth issues into consideration in the development agenda and policies of each country and further recognizing the need to harmonize global efforts to address youth related issues.

NOTING that the United Nations Programme on Youth of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs is currently the only part of the United Nations Secretariat with the explicit mandate to address youth issues.

COMMENDING the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) as adopted by the General Assembly and which provides a policy framework and practical guidelines for national action and international support to improve the situation of young people around the world.

AKNOWLEDGING the several Declarations and Programmes of Action at the various UN world conferences from the early 1990’s which make specific references to youth and the rights they should be afforded and further acknowledging the commitments already made towards addressing youth concerns in the Millennium Development Goals, Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN programme of action on Youth and inviting partners to reaffirm their commitment.

RECOGNIZING the roles played by the UN HABITAT, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNEP, ONODC in addressing the various challenges affecting the youth.

BUOYED UP by the creation of UN Women in July 2010 and the subsequent appointment of Ms. Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile as Under Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women.

ENCOURAGED by the UN General Assembly resolution 64/134 proclaiming the International Year of Youth and the call by the UN Secretary General that “Youth should be given a chance to take an active part in decision-making at local, national and global levels."

HIGHLIGHTING the primacy of the United Nations amid a field of growing groupings as an effective and the most central global forum for finding effective solutions to today's challenges.

ECHOING the many calls since 1990 for the United Nations to be reformed with a view to making it more "more democratic", and a key institution managing global affairs effectively.

PURSUANT to the Dar Es Salaam Communique dated 17th December 2010 by 16 beneficiary organizations of the UN Habitat Opportunity Fund, calling for a similar cause.

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Time to listen to the people of Afghanistan!

Arrange a call for the Global Day of Listening to Afghans, December 19 2010, email: youthpeacevolunteers@gmail.com

And sign here to support this petition.

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