United Nations Theme DAYS
like Day of water, girls, peace, biodiversity, migrating birds, indigenous people, rural women, radio day, families, friendship, charity, food, habitat … there’s 100 such days every year that we can use for our causes.
1) UN Days help add focus and structure
UN Days help boost
- purpose, aligned with current “societal weather”
- reach, via media, to spaces
- supportive community and allies
- impact
- FUN
You can plan ahead + bundle & finetune forces, tools and tricks
- for online donation buzz
- Philanthro-Parties
- school presentations
- theme fests
- costumes and more
You can appoint Crew and Tasks
that like best specific
- days
- themes
- dates
- spaces
You have a Calendar of Action
so your crew and allies have months to look forward to and prepare for
Also, the structure makes you feel part of something bigger
2) UN Days help connect with people
These professions pay special attention to UN Days
TEACHERS
educate global citizen awareness and skills
You add ace role models, authentic stories, action opportunities
CIVIL SOCIETY
NGOs unite on Water Day like it’s their annual birthday party
You add exciting youth stories, action, impact, reason to celebrate
JOURNALISTS
raise awareness on global issues, but only have sad data
You offer solution stories that enable audiences to take part
PUBLIC LIBRARIANS
LIVING MUSEUMS & COMMUNITY CENTRES nurture active citizenship, do theme displays and workshops
You offer vivid stories, causes, connection with students, schools, families, city
COUNCILLORS
nurture active citizenship, social enterprise, youth leadership, action for SDGs, youth exchanges
You offer stories, actions, school projects, global partners
We call them Key Professionals
that share our core purpose : to enable Able Active Caring Citizens.
They benefit a lot from Youth Leadership to fulfill their societal purpose,
to achieve their professional aspirations; this is why they respond
well to our offers; they need and actively seek them.
An example of Teachers using UN Days
Teachers obviously like to use UN Days of girls, youth skills, environment etc. Here is an example of Teachers of English in Germany, France or South America using our english stories, films and music.
FOR STUDENTS TO USE THEIR LANGUAGE SKILLS
- address the UN Day’s global issue
- with hero*ine role model stories, films and music
- as an interactive english language exercise of audio-visual understanding, group work, research, public speaking, conversation, poster making, media production
with high inner motivation … much higher than boring textbook topics.
+ TAKING ACTION
by using hero*ines’ Action Guides
+ ENGAGING IN CONVERSATION
with YL staff, changemakers, peers abroad
+ COMMUNICATING THEIR EXPERIENCE
creating articles, testimonials, videos, report to news media
and sharing them on social media and with their global partners