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Green Leaders

The project aims to impact SDG #13 by educating communities about climate change and building action plans to reduce critical factors affecting the environment.

6 weeks

SDG contribution

Every project we run focuses on a target to help meet the Global Goals.

Climate Action - Target 13.3

By 2030, Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Role

About the job and the activities you will be doing.

Global Volunteers will engage communities to become aware about the importance of taking action to stop climate change. Through the project beneficiaries will learn about the importances of having sustainable practice and will develop solutions and initiatives to reduce the impact of climate change in their communities.

Project Activities

Week 1
Onboarding space with opportunity provider representative to understand the context and urgent needs of the community regarding climate change
Analyse country and local issues regarding climate change.
Create and preparatory material for the sessions,dynamics and workshops of the following weeks.
Determine measure of outcome system and material to be use
Week 2
Introductory session with the beneficiaries, presentation of the volunteers and project objectives.
Documentary viewings about climate change.
Round table: Discuss the causes and effects of climate change with the students.
Lab practice: Practical demonstration of greenhouse effect.
Let participants do research on how climate change has affected their community (sea level rise, temperature rise, desertification etc.)
Week 3
Round table: Discussion and sharings about each participants countries reality about climate action initiatives
Workshop: The 3 R's of ecology
Round table: Use the Climate Change Scorecard to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas pollution at home and at school.
Practice: Ask students if they can think of other ways to save energy, reduce pollution or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Add their ideas to the scorecard.
Week 4
Workshop: Carbon footprint and the Butterfly Effect of our daily lifestyle choices to Climate Change
Round Table: Let people calculate their current carbon footprint based on their lifestyle
Workshop: Alternatives for carb footprint. How to be more sustainable at home?
Practice: Together with the students run a climate awareness events for social media. You can think on a catchy hashtag and encourage students to use their platforms to share knowledge. In case of no internet, you can run a one day physical awareness campaign
Week 5
Fieldwork: Plant a tree or garden at school, help your school become “greener”
Create a competition/challenge for participants to change their lifestyle (recycling, composting etc
Build an "Ambassadorship Program" to carryout the activities for next phases to keep long lasting sustainable practices in the school.
"Earth Hour" Session (WWF). Stopping every activity for an hour.
Week 6
Closing space with beneficiaries.
Collect data from project beneficiaries (you can use surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.)
Analyse data to determinate outcome results.
Build final project report and presented to AIESEC members and NGO/non-profit representatives.
Week 7
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