Sustaining Rwanda Youth Organization (SR-YO) to host Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest in Rwanda.

The Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest is a global competition for young people organized on the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of the United Nations Commission (Rio+20 Earth Summit) to be held in June 2012 in Brasil. This is an opportunity that encourages youth to express their hopes, concerns and thoughts on future of our earth by using music. The contest aim to collect musical messages from global youth exploring global solution for sustainable development.

For more information contact the Director of SR-YO who has been nominated to be the National Coordinator of Rio+20 GYMC 2011-2012.

Link: www.glocha.info

ICOSCAD , one of the main environmental projects within SR-YO, has been voted the second best youth initiative towards energy solution in World Bank Competition –Connect For Climate 2011.

Mr. Alphonse KARENZI as the designer and Coordinator of ICOSCAD project, 

Alphonse Karenzi, winner of the 2nd place prize in Energy, ages 18-24, receives a solar backpack from Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the World Bank. CNN correspondent Robyn Curnow announces. At the Connect4Climate Awards Announcement event at COP17 in Durban 

Evariste RUTEBUKA, awarded as Best Talk Presenter in the 4th International Scientific Research Conference 2011, with theme of Energy: Towards Sustainable , Green and Affordable Energy.

Ambitious and Hard-working young person, The Deputy Director of Sustaining Rwanda Youth Organization, Evariste RUTEBUKA, he received an award of Best Talk Presenter. His award handed by the Minister of Education representative Dr. Christine GASINGIRWA, in front of different honors including the Director of Research at NUR Prof.Dor.-Ing. Verdiana Grace MASANJA and The Acting Vice-Rector in charge of Academic Affairs (NUR) Prof. Herman MUSAHARA after presenting his paper entitled: Evaluation of Community Based Conservation Around Protected Areas of Rwanda, Case study of Nyungwe National Park in 4^th International Scientific Research Conference.

More detail on the conference, go to this link:  http://www.biology.nur.ac.rw/spip.php?article37

Sustaining Rwanda Youth Organization to represent Rwandan youths in both UNEP-TUNZA generation Earth Summit in Johannesburg and conference of parties COP17 in Durban, South Africa from November. 21st to December.9th 2011.

 The second from left is  Mr. Alphonse KARENZI, The director of Sustaining Rwanda Youth Organization has efficiently represented Rwandan Youths in different side-events and discussions at both UNEP-TUNZA generation Earth Summit in Johannesburg and conference of parties COP17 in Durban, South Africa.

HIV/Aids and Reproductive Health awareness campaign among 80 young bicyclists

Peer teaching sessions: this three months campaign aims at giving out responsible and accurate information about HIV/AIDS and reproductive health  to at least 80 young people involved in transportation activities using bicycles around Huye District .

Improved Cooking Stoves Campaign Against Deforestation ( ICOSCAD)

 

The ICOSCAD project has trained 20   students volunteers from National University of Rwanda, who are campaigning against deforestation and environmental degradation in GISAGARA District by training 130 local leaders in 

environmental protection and improved cooking stoves construction.

This campaign intends also to construct 39 improved cooking stoves for most vulnerable families as the samples, which will help community to construct others for themselves 

SR-YO Environmental protection teaching sessions around National University of Rwanda

SR-YO Participating in monthly community work in different villages surrounding National University of Rwanda in order to teach local population about environmental protection and how they can react on climate change.
  

SR - YO Weekly discussions at the National University of Rwanda

A Talk on GIS & environment by MIT student from USA (February, 2011)

SR - YO Welcomes everyone to come up with any topic related to youth or development to be discussed and published in our Newspaper Geosatellite. Every Saturday we meet at 5:00PM in the Campus Main Building, Room A30. Don't miss out the chance to chat with campus' greatest thinkers!