YES ~ Youth Empowerment Society: June 2012

Saturday 30 June 2012

29 Ways to Stay Creative from Japanese Graphics Firm TO-FU

Monday 25 June 2012

Urban Shelters - Everyone needs a home

Sense of place characterizes authentic human attachment and belonging to a place. This media piece was done for Adobe Youth Voices Training as an AYV educator. Location Colombo Sri Lanka. June 16 2012.

Friday 22 June 2012

YES~City of Youth : Presentation to Kandy Mayor

YES~City of Youth : Presentation to Kandy Mayor Part I

YES~City of Youth : Presentation to Kandy Mayor Part II

Monday 18 June 2012

YES~City of Youth : Knowledge City Initiative begins at DS Library

A knowledge Society is a society that is nurtured by
its diversity and its capacities. (UNESCO)

YES~City of Youth team training DS Library Staff on internet, email and social networks
for the sharing of knowledge for city development. The Knowledge City initiative of YES~City of Youth Project aims to bridge the knowledge gap between City Governance, Business Community, Youth and Public by creating technologies and communication supported platform for information, collaboration and action for sustainable city development.

"Every society has its own knowledge assets. It is therefore necessary to work towards connecting the forms of knowledge that societies already possess and the new forms of development, acquisition and spread of knowledge valued by the knowledge economy model." - UNESCO

"The 3rd Industrial revolution happening in 21st century advances new technologies and globalization. The resulting Knowledge econolmy has placed the cognitive resources at the center of human activity and Social Dynamics." - UNESCO

What is needed to be done?

The education of critical thinking is highly important in building a real knowledge societies. A knowledge society must foster knowledge-sharing. Nobody should be excluded from knowledge societies, where knowledge is a public good, available to each and every individual.

Young people are play a major role because they are among the first to use new technologies in everyday life. But older people also have an important part to play. They possess the experience an knowledge of the road to wisdom.

Towards Knowledge Socities - UNESCO REPORT

YES~City of Youth : Green Schools Initiative Begins

Green Schools also known as Eco-Schools

It is a Students, teachers, parents and community lead environmental management system.
It help improves schools environment
It makes school more healthier
It makes school more beautiful

Some examples of School Environmental Problems

Garbage disposal
Water Wastage
Heat in Class Rooms
Sounds from Vehicals
CO2/Dark smokes entering school
Land Slides/Erosion

Some examples of School Health Problems

Dengue Fever from mosquitos
Diareha from bacteria
Ashma, Bronchites from carbon smoke
Headaches from heat

Solutions

Environmental Education for students and teachers
Engage students in greening their schools
Re-think school lunch
Re-think Water usage
Saving Energy / Use Sunlight
School Environmental Re-Engineering
Create Class Gardens
Vertical Gardens/ Green Walls/ Living Walls
Green roofing

Green façades - climbing plants with roots in the ground (passion fruit) uses cable and rope wire

Living walls - combined system plastic containers, geotextiles, irrigation systems and a growing medium (ferns, low shrubs, perennial flowers and edible plants.)

Environmental benefits of green walls
sound insulation
filter air particulates to improve air quality
reduce heat creating echo islands
reduce internal temperature (external shading)
micro climates to alter the climate of a city
storm water absorbing from rainfall/moisture
creates natural animal habitat
beautiful & pleasing

Environmental benefits of green roofing

Reduce heat inside classrooms
Reduce cooling in winter
reduce the average temperatures
Natural Habitat Creation urban wilderness
Filter pollutants and carbon dioxide out of the air insulate a building for sound;
(soil helps to block lower frequencies and the plants block higher frequencies)
Increase agricultural space
water is stored by the substrate and then taken up by the plants from where it is returned to the atmosphere
through transpiration and evaporation

Thursday 7 June 2012

St. Sylvester's Rugby 2012 - The turning point

St. Sylvester's Collage, Kandy created success after a dull start for the Rugby season 2012, by synchronizing all efforts of the Team to win against Carey Collage, Colombo with 67-6. This promising win is the turning point to win much more games to come.
Pix by Shakthi Chandrasiri, www.kandy-youth.org (YES)

Yes ~ Paint Workshop 2012

Yes Team engaged in a peer to peer collaborative training to paint. The youth studied a climatic change RAP created by YES and created visuals for a music video to promote environmental conservation among youth.

TOP AVY Digital Media Creatives of 2011 / 2012 (Sri Lanka)

Following creative has been selected as best contributions to 2011/2012 Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Program implemented by Shilpa Sayura Foundation in Sri Lanka.

Contributors

Pushpadana Girls Collage, Kandy
Poornima Heshadharani, Gayathri Karuranraja & Aheshika Rupasinghe, Chaturika Dissanayake, Nethmi Deshani