National Youth Sunday 2008 :: Reclaim The Future

Activities

Reclaim The Future
Two informal sessions specially-commissioned to explore the Reclaim the Future! theme. Ideal print-and-go sessions for the week before and week after National Youth Sunday.
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Environment
What are the problems facing the environment and how can we help them? A practical experiential session from YCW/Impact! using their see-judge-act tool.
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Making Connections
This workshop helps young people make the connections between different areas of Catholic Social Teaching – the environment, sustainability, war, peace, conflict, development, and poverty.
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Get Crafty for National Youth Sunday!
We love to get stuck in and make things whether it’s a craft, a card or a cake. It’s great fun to have a go at a project and have something to show at the end of it.

Our challenge to you for NYS08 is to have a great day of celebrations BUT to produce all you need without buying anything new.

We’ve put together some ideas of things you could make to celebrate National Youth Sunday in style…! To do this you will have to be crafty (in more ways the one!), you will have to re-use, re-recycle, beg, borrow and scrounge - all in the name of sustainability.
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Five livesimply activities
Aim to challenge young people to look at their lifestyles and to consider how they can live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with others.
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Refugees
The activity explores needs and wants – what does it mean to live simply? What would you do if it came to the crunch? From Myddelton Grange Youth Retreat Centre.
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Simple Shelters
How would you build a simple shelter if you had to leave your home due to climate change? The Diocese of East Anglia help us find out.
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Simplicity Bingo!
A getting-to-know-you ice-breaker finding out what we already do to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity. By the Jesuit Volunteer Community.
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Degrees of Change
A 40-minute play about young people and climate change by Martin O’Brien working alongside CAFOD. Download the script, some brilliant activities based on the play and a poster to advertise it. You don’t have to be an Oscar-winner to put on a great show. Ideal for schools and youth groups.
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Hungercloths
Hungercloths are visual depictions of peoples' lives – the good parts and the bad and also where they see God at work. Join Myddelton Grange Youth Retreat Centre in exploring your life in all its richness
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Climate Change Photopack
This CAFOD pack of pictures and activities is ideal for schools and with a bit of tweaking, for youth groups too. What is climate change and how is it already affecting people around the world?
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Climate Game
The Climate Game is a giant-sized board game great for thinking about causes and effects of climate change.
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