YOUTH FORUM
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND 22-23 OCtober 2016
WELCOME! We’re really excited to have you join us this weekend! The SEED Programme Youth Forum is a special event for the organisation for a number of reasons, and we’re glad to have such a great bunch of people to be part of it. The SEED Programme was created in 2011 with the intention of providing students an opportunity to learn about issues happening around the world and to put what they learn into practice through platforms such as fundraising, public speaking, and wider community engagement. This Youth Forum will be the second SEED Programme event this year, and one of the more substantive. Now, a few years since it first began, the SEED Programme has to evolved so that students like you can feel more connected to the world, and feel more empowered to change it for the better. For this reason, we wanted to do to make this event a complete experience by having some incredible and knowledgeable speakers, getting involved with awesome friends like Sustainable Coastlines, AND inviting our amazing friends at Tart Bakery, All Good Bananas and T&G. The line-up of speakers we’ve got this Saturday is something special. We’re excited to hear about their stories and learn from what they know. We have organised this event so that everyone will have the chance to hear a speaker on each of the Sustainable Development Goals’ which we have narrowed down for this weekend. On Sunday, we will be going to Mission Bay to do a beach clean-up. Don’t worry we can assure you it will be fun! Our friends from Sustainable Coastlines (SC) have provided us with the necessary materials to run a beach clean-up with you. After having a chat with the team at SC, we have decided that since we’re running an event on the Sustainable Development Goals, it’s very appropriate to have this activity in order to learn about the reality of our coastlines and the importance of keeping them clean from a practical perspective. SC has a saying where they have added a new R to the 3Rs: recycle, reuse, reduce and reject! Finally, this is going to be a great weekend!! We’re here to keep everything running smoothly and set the scene, but the one thing that will turn this from a good conference to a great conference to a life changing experience is what you put into it. Welcome to SEED Programme. Welcome to P3. Let’s put poverty in the past – together. Nicholl and Lea P3 Foundation SEED Co-Leads -2-
SATURDAY 8:45am – registrations 9:00am – Welcome – Lea and Nicholl 9:15am – Introduction to the Global Goals - David 9:30am – GUEST speakers: introduction to Aiesec 10:00am – Logistics briefing – Lea and Nicholl 10:20am – separate into three groups 10:30am – session 1 – Water/Poverty/education 12 noon – lunch – tart bakery 1:00pm – session 2 – Water/Poverty/education 2:30pm – afternoon tea 2:45pm – energiser 3:00pm - session 3 – Water/Poverty/education 4:30pm – closing and briefing for Sunday 5:00pm – end of day one!
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sunday 9:20am – registrations 9:30am – Welcome to day 2 – Lea and Nicholl 9:15am – Introduction to the Global Goals - David 10:00am – session 1: groups present ideas 10:30am – session 2: Groups present ideas 11:00am – session 3: groups Present ideas 12 Noon - Lunch 1:00pm – travel to mission bay for Beach cleanup 2:00pm – beach cleanup begins 4:30pm – end of day two
(Please do stick around and join us for a social dinner in Mission Bay afterwards!)
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our speakers Ben Scott | The Lucy Foundation Ben is the co-founder of The Lucy Foundation - a social enterprise aimed at increasing the social and economic inclusion of disabled people through environmentally, economically and socially sustainable trade. Ben is passionate about bringing community development and business innovation together to end poverty and inequality. He works in the social development sector as an advisor, growing collaborative, sustainable, community-centred initiatives that address the social needs across Hamilton. Ben also has a background in business development and youth work. The Lucy Foundation's first project is all about coffee! They are helping to create education and employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the coffee industry here in Aotearoa and in Mexico (where the coffee grows!). The goal is to create an entirely inclusive (and environmentally/economically sustainable) supply chain of specialty coffee - from seed to cup.
Moira Lawler | Lifewise Moira has a background in community education, community development and local economic development. She has worked in a range of governance and leadership roles in the NGO and government sectors in West Auckland and Porirua. Lifewise is an Auckland-based community social development organisation, who develop new ways to solve challenging social issues, and work with families, older people, people with disabilities, and people at risk of homelessness to turn people’s lives around. Focusing on the principle of interdependence rather than independence or dependence, Lifewise is recognised for their work providing sustainable solutions to social issues, rather than focusing on simply meeting immediate needs, in an attempt to address the root causes of social isolation and disadvantage. Lifewise offer services and support for individuals and families to imagine a better future and build their capacity to achieve that vision.
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Justin Sung | Foster our Future Justin Sung is a senior medical student and certified tertiary teacher. Using his teaching experience alongside the evidence-focus of medicine, he strives to turn idealism into norm. Foster our Future is an evidence-based and collaborative non-profit company that seeks to enhance learner outcomes and develop leaders in the communities that need them most. Our focus on learning psychology and theory, combined with our strong iterative and evidence-centric model of operation is what makes Foster Our Future unique.
Steven Zohrab and Daniel Keat | AIESEC Steven Zohrab and Daniel Keat are currently the National President and VP Partnership Development (respectively) for AIESEC in New Zealand, which provides cross cultural leadership exchanges targeting the SDG’s. Working with AIESEC over the past three years has seen Steven and Daniel lead local committees at their universities and has taken them to places such as Vietnam, India and Poland to attend international youth conferences focusing on AIESEC’s partnership with the UN and creating impact through exchange. In their experience, Steven and Daniel have seen hundreds of people create quality education internationally through AIESEC’s exchange programs and believe strongly in the impact one individual can have.
Jenny Sahng | The Learning Collaborative The Learning Collaborative builds a web of services that enables every young person to realise this definition of success. Their belief is that students should graduate high school excited about where they are headed, aware of the pathways they can take to get there, and confident and capable of going after their pathway of choice. They provide services around the areas of education in New Zealand such as crashcourses before exams and academic coaching. This organisation was founded by one of our alumni Jade Leung who is currently starting her PHD at Oxford University.
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Marayke Bouma | The Spirit of Adventure Marayke will be representing the Spirit of Adventure as one of their cadets. She is an environmental science student. Spirit of Adventure Trust is an organization dedicated to the development of youth. The objective from the start has been to provide the youth of New Zealand access to a character development programme through sail training. It comprises a team of individuals on the ship and in the support office who are passionate, proud and embody the essence of the Spirit of Adventure Trust in every light. They take pride in our New Zealand roots and are deeply connected to the history, culture and heritage of New Zealand. The Spirit of Adventure really values the importance of having clean coastlines and are big advocates for keeping New Zealand clean and green.
Alex Whitcombe | World Merit / Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change "Kia ora koutou, ko Alex Whitcombe toku ingoa, no Aotearoa ahau. I am Alex, passionate social innovator from New Zealand. I am drawn to contributing towards social complex problems to improve the livelihood and environment of others." The Pacific Adaption to Climate Change (PACC) project has the assessed the vulnerability of 14 small countries in the Pacific Ocean. The goal is to build resilience to climate change by responding to their needs with adaptation techniques. The focus is on - coastal zone management, food security and food production, and water resources management. They have identified the key interactions with water and responded with low-cost solutions - example 1: Plumbing and guttering that captures leaves and plant matter and rain water is filtered into storage containers for drinking and recreational use. The PACC team has embedded these adaptation techniques into policy making at a local and national level to influence decision making.
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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty worldwide. That means they live on less than NZ$2.85 per day. We believe it's time to change that, and our Government has promised to work to end extreme poverty by 2030. But there's more than one kind of poverty. Different countries use different measures of relative poverty. Poverty exists here in New Zealand too - especially amongst children and young people.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Education is a human right. But not everyone has access to it. In the words of Malala Yousafzai: "We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond‌" What do you think New Zealand needs to do to ensure all girls and boys have access to education?
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans Aotearoa is surrounded by oceans. But our world's oceans are under threat. Just last week, scientists declared the Great Barrier Reef dead. It's no wonder that young Kiwis like you ranked look after our oceans, coasts, and sea life as one of the top three Global Goals. But where should we start?
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MEET the P3 foundation team Nicholl Oblitas-Costa | SEED CO-Lead Nicholl describes herself as a puzzle solver who's always trying to think through the solution for everything - including extreme poverty. Nicholl holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems and works in market research.
Lea Abuyan | SEED CO-LEAD Lea is passionate about tackling poverty as a global issue. Her passion has led to her involvement with several organisations, including as Community Action Trust NZ, Greenpeace, the Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute and TearFund.
Bhavya Dhar | Auckland Co-Lead Bhavya is a passionate public health student at the University of Auckland. Her dream is to be involved with public policy on a global scale to tackle issues such as extreme poverty and health inequities both between and within countries.
Priya Patel | Auckland Co-Lead Priya is a commerce and science student at the University of Auckland who one day hopes to use economic principles to resolve issues related to wealth disparities.
David Tong | CEO David helped to co-found P3 Foundation in 2009. He has a background in law, but brings a wealth of experience from a range of roles in the charitable and campaigning sector. Currently, David is P3's only paid staff member.
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www.p3foundation.org | @p3foundation