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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
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we evolve peace is becoming increasingly important and awareness is one
of the crucial issues of building a better future for mankind. And it
is awareness, brought about by action, which we have been promoting for
several years. To better achieve this goal, we started at an
educational level by offering students the opportunity to work together
and also to establish contact with international organizations and
youth groups all over the world. In order to reach visible results, we
founded a local network made up of various clubs: Earth Day, Life-Link,
Clean up the World, Peace Child, Sokrates, and Eco Club. The network
has proven to be extremely efficient given the fact that every year it
allows us to organize more than one hundred thematic events in
collaboration with local and national authorities.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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1.
One of the most important values we have promoted during the last few
years is tolerance, mainly because we consider lack of tolerance to be
the root of war. In the spirit of tolerance we have organized numerous
workshops, student meetings, IT presentations, symposiums, MUN
conferences, KP and Lincoln-Douglas debates.
2. Concerned
about major health issues we have developed a partnership with the
local council, hospitals and Public Health Department so as to have
reliable sources of information for our campaigns: “AIDS aid”, “Healthy
food-Chew on it”, “Feed your brain”, “First aid skills”, “Don’t let the
drugs in”.
3. Alarmed by the fact that human activity is
constantly and irreversibly harming the environment, we have tried to
compensate for the damage. Every week in the past three years, the
surroundings of our high school and the center of our city have been
cleaned by volunteers of our local Eco Club. Given the fact that we
live on the bank of the severely polluted Danube we are organizing
clean-ups every semester. Through our recycling campaigns C.N.V.A.
teenagers have managed to link all schools from Galati county and
gathered more than 100 tons of paper, plastic and metals. We have
planted indigenous species of trees in order to prevent the Danube’s
promenade from collapsing into the Danube and also to lower the level
of pollution our local metal plant causes. As important as these was to
make the idea of helping the environment a popular one among the youth
in our community, which we achieved by organizing numerous contests and
expositions on ecological themes with great impact on the viewers. It
was crucial for us to create a strong link between our members and
collaboration was enhanced by the many activities which implied team
work.
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
The
school is part of the Life-Link Friendship-Schools network. Also takes
part in and organises events with Earth Day, Clean up the World, Peace
Child, Sokrates, and Eco Club.
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
These
essential concepts are the basis of all our activities, thus
encouraging working together for achieving our goals. The knowledge
gained by the ones who have decided to joined us and also the positive
effects reflected in the life of our community have proven the
efficiency of togetherness. We hope that in the future we will overcome
any pragmatic barriers and will be able to accomplish more than we
already have. Our goals make us aspire for better results and we feel
confident that with the support of youth we can achieve them.
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Postal address of organization
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Nicolae Balcescu #41, 800001 Galati, ROMANIA
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E-mail address of organization
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life-link@cva-galati.ro
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Website address of organization
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www.cva-galati.ro
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Education for a culture of peace
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Sustainable development
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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International
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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