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YOUNG
ISLANDERS
Youth-based activities
in Cook Islands
- Youth
from Cook Islands, other Pacific and Caribbean islands to take
part in a cultural
exchange in Jul '07
- Nikao
Maori School wins first prize in the UNESCO Community Sandwatch
Competition, Nov '05
- Two schools
from Cook Islands enter the UNESCO
Community Sandwatch Competition; read the entry from Mauke
School and Nikao Maori Primary School [1]
[2]
[3]
May '05
- Cook Islands
Youth, Nancy Kareroa
and Melinda Pierre, present the Island Memories Project
at the Small Islands Voice side event at the UN SIDS conference
in Mauritius, Jan '05
- Youth
from the Cook Islands enter a peace
essay writing competition, Nov '04
- Cook Islands
youth prepare articles for a peace
festival, Sep '04
- Young people
from Rarotonga and the Southern Islands participate in a training
workshop on video production, Apr '04
- See photos
of students from Nikao Maori Primary School, Rarotonga, Cook
Islands who take part in the Small Islands Voice internet based
youth forum
- Tania Rakei
of Nukutere College, who has also written in the Small Islands
Voice Youth Forum, wins an award in an essay competition organised
by the Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and
the Pacific. Her essay was entitled 'Leading
a good life amidst temptation,' November, 2003
- Students
from Nikao Maori Primary School take part in a dramatic production
'Paikea', Sep '03
- Young
people from schools in Cook Islands contribute creative writing,
poems and other articles to the Saturday
youth section of Cook Islands News in a page entitled 'Small
Islands Voice - Cook Islands' Apr '03 onwards
- According
to a recent survey
the regular compilation and presentation of local news items
on community television by youth in Aitutaki, Mangaia, Mitiaro
and Manihiki has been beneficial for those involved and informative
for the community, July 2003
- Students
and their communities in Rarotonga and the outer islands have
benefited from communications
equipment, as well as computer
and digital camera equipment, Jan-July 2003
- Article
on drug abuse by Avarau School published in Cook Islands
News, June 2003
- Students
from Nikao Maori School report to the Small Islands Voice forum
on the dangers of asbestos
and how its use in roofing materials can affect their health
in the Cook Islands, June 2003
- An article
on agriculture, The REAP
Report Tu anga Tanutanu (Agriculture), prepared by students
from Nukutere College and posted on the Small Islands Voice
internet-based youth forum is published in the Cook Islands
News
- Youth in
Mangaia produce and read
community news bulletins which are broadcast on television
- Primary
School students at Nikao School in the Cook Islands take
part in the Small Islands Voice youth forum
- Students
in Mangaia take part in the Small Islands Voice youth forum
without the benefit of internet
connections
- Students
from Nikao Maori Primary School clean
the beaches of litter during the Easter holidays as part
of the Adopt-A-BeacProgramme
- Students
from Mangaia School prepare
an article on Island Heritage for the Small Islands Voice
youth forum
- An article
entitled Nukutere posts
articles on UNESCO website described how secondary school
students from Nukutere College are finding out about agriculture
in their country in order to prepare their article for the second
phase of the Small Islands Voice youth forum.
- An article
entitled Avarua tunes into
Small Island Voice forum describes how primary school students
are participating in the Small Islands Voice forum with the
aid of computer equipment donated by Small Islands Voice.
- REAP's
young Environmental Rangers volunteer to clean discarded trash
from the islands' picnic areas and beaches in The REAP
Report - no time to waste
- Are we
listening to the voice of our islands' youth as we hear Mother
Earth's dying cries
- Preliminary
results from a second survey of youth living in Rarotonga, Aitutaki,
Mauke, Mitiaro, Manihiki and Pukapuka are outlined in The REAP
Report - Community concerns
- Youth in
Cook Islands and Bequia discover the similarities of Living
on a small island
- Youth newsletter:
Cook Islands - Small
Islands Voice Newsletter, volume 1, issue 1
- Youth
newsletter Cook Islands - Small
Islands Voice Newsletter, volume 1, issue 2
- Survey
of young people in Rarotonga and Aitutaki on environment and
development issues and their experiences of growing up in Cook
Islands, both highlights
of the survey and a full
report of the survey are available
- Article
on the Small Islands Voice Youth
Forum by Rosalia Smauela, Gemma Hogg, Kathleen Acena, published
in the Nukutere College Yearbook 2002.
- Maarametua
Murare represents the youth of Cook Islands at the Small
Islands Voice Inter-regional workshop in Palau, 18-22 November
2002
- Article
entitled 'REAP report - a youth
perspective' by Maara Murare, youth representative, on her
participation in the Small Islands Voice Inter-regional workshop,
published in Cook Islands News, 16th December 2002
- Presentation
to the Mitiaro school students, 16th December 2002, on the
'Small Islands Voice Inter-regional Workshop held in Palau in
November 2002' by Maarametua Murare, youth representative
- Presentation
to the Mitiaro community, 18th December 2002, on the 'Small
Islands Voice Inter-regional Workshop held in Palau in November
2002' by Maarametua Murare, youth representative
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