360 - Changing the World by Degrees
Created | Updated May 22, 2006
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Richard and Maggy from 360 spent a couple of a days in Birmingham, UK, last week with the 80 delegates to the United Nations Education committee's 'Your Wake Up Call' conference. All the delegates were between 13 and 18 and 20 of them had never left their home country of South Africa before.
Richard opened the conference, both talking to the delegates on Sunday night when they arrived and officially giving the first talk at the Young People's Parliament at Millennium Point in Birmingham. He told them about 360, Changing the World by Degrees, which can help them keep in touch during their projects - and all 80 have registered - although they haven't got round to writing their personal spaces yet!
All the young people are making pledges to work to help the environment - and one of the projects in Birmingham was to design and cook a specimen meal which they plan to serve to world leaders at the Johannesburg Earth Summit in September.
For that, they divided up into four groups. The most popular one was the one actually doing the cooking - though if the others could have seen the brave cooks with eyes streaming over cutting up onions, they might have had a different opinion. The other three took care of planning the menu, designing the room and the table - and getting the media involved.
It was a real adventure for all the delegates, particularly the South Africans. Some of them were delayed in getting here because of visa problems but they made up for their late arrival with their enthusiasm.
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