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Zawya
9 hours ago
- General
- Zawya
Eritrea: Tour to Developmental and Historical Sites
Members of the PFDJ in the Southern Region conducted a three-day tour to developmental and historical sites in the Northern Red Sea Region. During their visits to Gahtelay Dam, where 98% of the construction has been finalized, Massawa Airport, constructed with internal capacity, a plastic and tin factory in Massawa, and the port, they were provided with briefings by managers and experts regarding the objectives of the institutions and their future plans. They also visited Dese Island, the Naval Base in Gedem, and the Northern Red Sea Museum. Noting that the program was mainly targeted at the youth, Ms. Amete Neguse, Secretary of the PFDJ in the Southern Region, commended those who participated and contributed to the successful implementation of the program, particularly the Eritrean Navy. The participants expressed satisfaction with the progress of the institutions they visited firsthand and noted that the experience will significantly enhance their involvement in national affairs. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Information, Eritrea.
CBS News
5 days ago
- Health
- CBS News
Metropolitan Peace Initiative crisis response team helps teens manage conflict during 'trend season'
When the weather gets warm and teens gather at Chicago's beaches and downtown, it's known as "trend season," and while you might have seen the videos of these large gatherings, what you don't see are the adults woven in trying to make a difference. "We're building relations with the businesses so when the teens already get down here, we already have that established with the businesses," said Rodney Phillips, a crisis responder with Metropolitan Peace Initiative. "They already know what we're doing, why we're here." Phillips, who is also associate director of the crisis response program, is in the streets and on the ground during teen trend. While he's certainly not a teen anymore, he listens to them and tries to understand them. "It's frustrating when some of the teens are criticized, and it's frustrating when you see people, what they just see on the news, but when you're the boots on the ground and you're in the thick of it, it's a lot of layers to it," he said. The crisis responders unpack each of those layers with conversation. "Now we have a personal relationship with some of the trenders," Phillips explained. "So when you have a personal relationship, they open up a little more, and they may tell you what's going on in their personal lives; where they may say, I don't have nowhere to stay, or I'm trying to et back into school, or I have a substance abuse problem." For 18 weeks members of the crisis response team train in classrooms before they go out into the field and star talking to teens during trends. "A lot of times, like, 'Nice shoes, kid!' you know, who doesn't want to be complimented? And I think that's a good ice breaker," said Sharona Giles, director of the crisis prevention and response unit. Giles offered some insight into how their team of 25 adults makes connections in a crowd of hundreds of teens. "Body language is huge," she said. "I think that's the biggest kind of indicator, but also who's surrounded? Like, if you see somebody, and he has all the girls around him, he's probably charismatic, he's probably got some skills. He's probably someone we want to pay attention to, because he has all of these other kids around him." They build relationships and sometimes break up tense situations. "It could get scary," Philips said. "It's dark. It's 500 kids. You're breaking up, simultaneously, fights; like small brush fires, and, because of that, dangerous things can happen." After two years, they believe their work has prevented violence. "The endgame is to connect them to resources that's going to help their personal development, so we can get them the resources that they need," said Phillips. CBS News Chicago has partnered with Strides for Peace as the media sponsor for Chicago's Race Against Gun Violence in Grant Park on June 5. Click here for more information on the fundraiser, how to sign up and our coverage of participating nonprofits.
CBC
27-05-2025
- General
- CBC
'Exciting' and 'surreal': King's Trust Canada team members talk about meeting King Charles
Sarah Vickery, director of programming at the King's Trust Canada, and Maxwell Evans, a member of the youth council at the King's Trust, talk about how their organization works with young people and what it was like to meet King Charles as he makes his 20th visit to Canada.
CBC
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
The winners of Climate Change Connection's Youth Climate Video Challenge
CBC is a proud sponsor of Climate Change Connection's Youth Climate Video Challenge. Manitoba high school students were challenged to make a video about climate change. The goal of the initiative is to educate youth on climate change facts and solutions. "We were so excited to see the submissions by these creative and innovative high school filmmakers," says Jennifer MacRae, Public Engagement and Outreach Associate with Climate Change Connection. "Their unique and totally different perspectives on the subject of climate change really inspired us, and hopefully others." From all of the entries, eleven finalists were selected. You can watch all of the finalists on the Climate Change Connection website. Based on creativity, filmmaking skill and social media engagement, judges narrowed down their favourites to a top three. Check them out below. Addison Purcell - River East Collegiate SECOND PRIZE Laura Keefe - St. John's Ravenscourt THIRD PRIZE Praise Olayiwola - Louis Riel Arts and Technology For more information about Climate Change Connection, click here.
The Guardian
23-05-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Bradford project produces ‘outstanding' rise in children's physical activity
A project in the UK which included young people designing their own play spaces has led to what researchers say is the highest increase in children's physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind. The JU:MP programme (Join Us: Move Play) in Bradford, West Yorkshire, recruited children and young people to design play spaces on neglected land near their homes, choosing plants, balance beams, and nature play features, such as stone stacks and earth mounds which encourage imaginative games while keeping maintenance costs down. Alongside intervention in state schools, the project got madrasas (religious after-school programmes) to build exercise – including football, cricket and archery – into their classes for the first time, putting health messages in faith settings. The result was a transformation that benefited children from across Bradford's communities, the organisers said. In the Shipley area of the city, which is predominantly white, investment in activity clubs saved parents from paying for after-school and holiday activities. By increasing opportunities for play throughout the children's day, with families encouraged to walk more, the scheme improved the children's total physical activity by more than 70 minutes a week. The children wore accelerometers – devices that measured their motion – so researchers from Born in Bradford, a project that tracks health outcomes in the city, could collate the data. Physical activity classed as 'moderate to vigorous' increased by six minutes on weekdays, while 'weekend inactivity' fell by about 22 minutes a day. Previous studies involving long-term physical activity intervention have averaged only four-minute increases per day, according to Sport England and Born in Bradford. Sport England is investing £250m in 90 places in the top 10% areas of the country for inactivity, deprivation and health inequality. It described the results in Bradford – where 40.4% of children aged 10-11 were overweight in 2022-23 – as 'outstanding'. The Bradford project was funded by the National Institute of Health and Care Research, with infrastructure funded by Sport England, and targeted 30,000 children in eight neighbourhoods of the city. Dr Sally Barber, the director of physical activity research at Born in Bradford, said the project had taken a singular, 'whole-system' approach in targeting children and families, community organisations, schools and the environment, ensuring 'it's the people within the locality that are making the decisions'. Barber said: 'The green space is a shining example – we've developed 12 green spaces over the course of the programme. We've had some projects where teenage girls have been involved from the very beginning, working with landscape architects to develop their ideas, often places where there's been problems with lighting, flytipping or antisocial behaviour. It's been really important to have that co-design and have those children saying: 'Actually, this is what would make me use it'.' Born in Bradford is a birth cohort study that began in 2007, following the lives of children since their mothers were pregnant, collecting data including accelerometer readings from children at various stages of their lives. The JU:MP programme involved 766 children in the intervention group, and results were compared with a control group of 687. The research ran between January 2022 and September 2024. Sam Bacon, the strategic director of physical activity for Active Bradford and the JU:MP programme, said the approach taken in Bradford 'needs to go into policymaking'. Bacon said: 'We know physical behaviour habits when you're young influence what happens when you're older, and that increasing sedentary behaviour and general physical ill-health is a real problem society faces. 'We're not talking about putting on lots of free football sessions, and when the money runs out, that stops – we're talking about sustainable behaviour change.' Lisa Dodd-Mayne, the Sport England executive director for place, said: 'This work is a pivotal moment in time, showing that by working differently we can genuinely influence activity levels.'
