Entries Tagged 'Changing the World' ↓

Global Agents for Change is a fellow traveler with their GFAC fund The group’s vision is to create the world’s largest youth built, youth led microcredit fund and connecting youth with developing world entrepreneurs, providing a crucial tool in the fight to escape poverty. In 2007 they did a 7 week 3000 kilometer ride from Vancouver, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico to help build the fund. They will be doing it again May 31, 2008.

As a parent, I am concerned that our children are growing up in an era of profound social, technological, political and economic change, with shifts in power and influence and growing international interdependence and between the “Have’s” and the “Have-not’s”. We adults, as teen role models, feel disempowered rather than engaged and involved as the issues appear to be of such a large scale that they seem insurmountable. Many of our teens want to make a difference but do not know how… They have little awareness of the power they that they really have to get involved and affect change

Perhaps an answer would be to develop a program engage young adults, to be better citizens of America, by becoming more aware citizens of the world. This initiative might leverage US teen access to modest cash resources and to harness the power of micro-credit to bring about change. I think that these young adults would feel enormously empowered as a result of the tangible difference they make through their participation in such a microcredit program.