Representing Youth Re:presenting Stories. Being Present.represent@representingyouth.com
Bringing fringe voices to the knowledge economy
What is Fair Knowledge? It is an organisation and the thought behind it that knowledge is fair when everyone has the opportunity to create, disseminate and apply it.
Through different workshops and events Fair Knowledge is striving to include EVERYONE in the education processes since we can always learn so much from each other and enrich [...]
No More Lullabies
No More Lullabies is an initiative bringing together musicians in order to “wake up” people from the status quo passiveness. As an artist and a musician one has a great chance to be a role model and to take advantage of that to communicate engagement and change seem quite natural when you actually see it [...]
Produce Local & Consume Local
Shashank Verma is founder and president at Clean Star Energy, India a sustainable biofuel company working with biofuels in India as well as Mozambique and Brasil.
Clean Star Energy is providing a more efficient supply chain, a distributive model where farmers are growing their own biofules on their less fertile areas of land and use that energy [...]
Peepoople
Karin Ruiz is a CEO at Peepoople, a company turning sanitation problem into a source of fertilizers. Offering smart solution in a form of degradable plastic bags that turn a growing problem of slums and undeveloped areas into an opportunity to increase crops!
This is like the bags are described on their Peepoople homepage:
“The Peepoo is [...]
Involve the community whose problem you’re addressing!
Ramesh Prabhu is an Indian entrepreneur running a SocioEnvio Solutions social enterprise in India. Their aim is to adress the problem of air-pollution caused by numerous auto rickshaws in India. Since new technological solutions are not always cheap and the drivers are very dependent on their minor daily income this challenge took a different approach. [...]
Be unstoppable, be unreasonable!
Ms Poonam Ahluwalia is the Founder and the President of Youth Employment Systems (YES) Inc, an international, nonprofit and development organization based at Cambridge College, MA. YES launched a decade long Campaign at the first ever global Youth Employment Summit held in Alexandria, Egypt in 2002.
The YES Campaign was launched by 1600 delegates from 120 [...]
Backpack of tools for social entrepreneurs
Reinoud Meijer comes from Youth Initiative Program located in Järna, Sweden. The program offers a one year education for social entrepreneurs, where the focus is not only on the entrepreneurship itself ie what and how are the profits made and shared, what are the consequences for the society moreover it emphasizes the personality of the [...]
The world is ruled by those who participate!
The Hunger Project is a global organisation whose mission is to bring an end to hunger. Since hunger and poverty is often very closely related to lack of knowledge and education it is no surprise that The Hunger Project in India is mainly working with providing training and education for women. Women and young girls [...]
We need to be modest about human ability
John D. Liu is a director at the Environmental Education Media Project. Trying to answer a question how to describe the Rework conference in one word Mr. Liu offered us some thinking when refusing the word work and instead emphasizing understanding and consciousness in order to aline ourselves with natural systems.
The Environmental Education Media Project [...]
Heal the Hood: Rehabilitation with arts
Yet another inspiring initiative we came across at Rework: Everon Orange came to Sweden to present a project that goes by the name of Heal the Hood. As the name implies the project is taking place in the “hoods”, using art workshops and training as a method of rehabilitation and further more encouraging young people [...]
Art, justice and dignity!
Sometimes it is not all about reworking the world in a rational way such as developing new alternative techniques of energy production or providing education. There are other bits and pieces; maybe not as connected to the official scientific world but for that matter no less important. Crear Vale La Pena is an initiative brought [...]
Where do we go now?
Two weeks have gone since we’ve kicked off our platform at Rework summit. As you’ve hopefully noticed the production is still running and we’re publishing new interviews with interesting and inspiring people everyday.
I find it important to highlight that Representing Youth initiative might have been taken based on the Rework conference but its existence does [...]
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