In what area would you take action? It depends on your tastes and skills. A group of students in agronomy, will probably be interested in agricultural production and sustainable agriculture; young graphic designers or drama students will choose the field of communication and culture; engineers will be attracted to alternative technologies and sustainable energy … Perhaps you would be a multidisciplinary team that will try to help a community to develop an integrated project, involving several areas at once.
Indaba-Network focuses on eight key fields of action that are neither exhaustive nor compartmentalized. They are there to foster your imagination and give you ideas. You will find in the Resources page documentation for each of these fields:
- Horizons: Discovering the diversity of landscapes and cultures; learning about other regions, countries and communities; traveling in a responsible manner respecting the environment, people and cultures; understanding the global interactions and challenging ethnic prejudice and racism while respecting cultural identities.
- Planet: Being aware of the need to protect the environment; using natural resources in a sustainable way; protecting biodiversity; developing alternative energy, managing waste to avoid pollution; developing sustainable agriculture, and so on.
- Health: Being responsible for one’s health, that is to say, his physical, mental and social well-being; avoiding risky behaviors and consumption of addictive substances (tobacco, alcohol, drugs); knowing and respecting the needs of one’s body; keeping a balanced diet and practicing regular physical activity, etc..
- Cultures: Encouraging people from different cultures to communicate and understand each other; providing the community with means of communication and expression in order to express its problems, needs, and expectations through its own culture; helping the community to use mass media and promote new awareness and participation, etc..
- Education: Better articulating formal and non-formal education; developing new forms of education more attractive, more efficient, more respectful of cultural diversity to give everyone the chance to develop its full potential, to find a creative place in society.
- Social Economy: exploring ways to access to employment and financial independence; developing income-generating activities to challenge poverty; experimenting new ways to create social enterprises.
- Human Rights and Citizenship: Knowing your rights and responsibilities; fighting against injustice and discrimination; taking an active role in decisions concerning one’s community; helping build a more just, peaceful and caring society.
- Organizations and networks: Denying individualism and taking an active role in volunteer organizations is essential for the development of society: youth movements and education, trade unions, charities, cultural organizations, associations, environmental groups, political parties, and so on. ; Taking initiatives to make their operations more efficient, more democratic and more respectful of people.
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