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About Me

YouthCARE is the youth movement at CARE Canada. CARE is an international relief and development organization working in nearly 70 countries. CARE Canada's mission is to serve the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from global diversity, resources and experience, CARE promotes innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. All funds raised by YouthCARE will go towards helping young people around the world. Click here to make a donation. Visit www.care.ca/youthcare for more info.
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Former MuchMusic VJ Hannah Sung in Dili, East Timor. On this day, children living in a camp for displaced persons were encouraged to exchange their toy guns for safer toys to promote peace.
Jennifer Hollett (MuchMusic) and YouthCARE at the International AIDS Conference with Fashioning Change: A Youth-Inspired Fashion Show. 8,000 people die of AIDS every day.
Photos by Alex Felipe .
oneeighty.ca - Fashioning Change in AIDS Awareness

My Interests

Music, drama, art. Debate, discussion, education. Awareness, travel and FUNdraising.

I'd like to meet:

Youth who think out loud creatively and critically and are ready to rule their world!

TAKE ACTION!
Here are three things you can do to address global and social issues, and create change.

1) Stay informed. Know what's going on in the world. Read the newspaper, watch the news, surf the web.

2) Speak up! Talk about these issues. Blog, write a letter to the editor, contact your MP.

3) Awareness and fundraising. Support organizations doing great work (like YouthCARE). Be creative and have fun doing it!

Music:

Alicia Keys, Beastie Boys, Billy Talent, Cadence Weapon, Coldplay, Constantines, Damhnait Doyle, Feist, Jason Collett, Kleptomaniax, K-Nan, Le Tigre, Longombas, Melisssa Larkin, Metric, M.I.A., Rochester, Simon Wilcox, The Stars, U2, Zaki

Movies:

Beneath The Stars, Born Into Brothels, Shake Hands With The Devil, Sometime In April, Translating Genocide, An Inconvenient Truth, The Constant Gardener

Television:

The Hour, Make Some Noise (CBC), MuchMusic

Books:

28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, Take Action! A Guide to Active Citizenship, Race Against Time, The Shackled Continent, Desert Flower, The Better World Handbook

Heroes:

Stephen Lewis; Wangari Mathai; the youth we've met in Kenya, Indonesia, East Timor and around the world who are making a difference.

My Blog

Massive Earthquake Hits Peru: CARE responds

Hey everyone, As you might have heard, a massive earthquake has hit Peru. I just spoke with someone from CARE's assessment team, and this is what she said: "It's terrible, we were all shocked. There a...
Posted by YouthCARE on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:00 PST

CARE On Facebook!

CARE is now on Facebook - just search "Friends of CARE Canada" in the groups section. We'll send messages updating you on world events, emergencies and CARE and YouthCARE activities - like the recent ...
Posted by YouthCARE on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:37:00 PST

World Refugee Day

June 20 is World Refugee Day. To help spread the word on refugees worldwide, we thought we'd send you some quick facts! - According to the UNHCR, the number of refugees in the world has increased to ...
Posted by YouthCARE on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:26:00 PST

MAKE A FASHION STATEMENT! Buy an i-care t-shirt and help youth in third world countries!

Make your Connection to Fashion more Powerful! Buy an i-care T-shirt and help thousands of youth in third world countries! Launch date: JUNE 1st!! WHERE: Stitches and Urban Planet outlets across...
Posted by YouthCARE on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

Ignite: Youth Arts Forum in Toronto

Tuesday, June 12 and Wednesday, June 13 The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West in TorontoThe forum is intended to support youth arts practice and policy. It will be a networking and learning opp...
Posted by YouthCARE on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:06:00 PST

VOICES FROM A REFUGEE CAMP - our first newsletter is out!

Forced to marry at 15, dating 10 girls at the same time, depression among youth, life as a refugee, dealing with HIV/AIDS and what it's like to lose your parents would you write about these things i...
Posted by YouthCARE on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

Interested in living and working in overseas? The Go Abroad Fair is a good place to start.

When and where? Toronto: September 15 & 16Vancouver: September 17 & 18 Toronto and Vancouver will be the settings for the 2007 Go Abroad Fairs in September. The Go Abroad Fair is widely recogn...
Posted by YouthCARE on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:34:00 PST

From the 'Burbs to a Refugee Camp

Check out Canadian intern Stephanie's blog on the YouthCARE site! http://www.care.ca/youthcare/blogs/blogSH.shtm Steph has moved from the suburbs to the Dadaab Refugee Camp, where she is wo...
Posted by YouthCARE on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:58:00 PST

Hey-oooooooo! Picture perfect!

Radio Opera was just so much fun. I loved seeing all of you there. Plus, performances were amazing - Constantines, Jason Collett, Rory Them Finest and Sabrina Jalees - incredible!I wanna write more la...
Posted by YouthCARE on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:03:00 PST

3 Days To The Big Show!

Hola amigas!Hi everyone. School tour is over! I can't believe it! My last day was at my old school - Woburn, in Scarborough. It was pretty trippy being back. It all seemed exactly the same except smal...
Posted by YouthCARE on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:00:00 PST