SCIC Youth Program

At its core, the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation Youth Program is about empowering young people to act, respecting and inviting the voices of youth, and creating opportunities for youth to engage in peer-to-peer education. These principles are part of every activity that the SCIC Youth Program undertakes and they are the reason for its success.

What's New With SCIC Youth?

Youth for International Development DIY Summer Program!! 

Registration has begun! You can find the registration form HERE print it out and send it in!

This year's theme is "The World Needs Dramatic Change". 

Workshop streams include film and video, theatre as activism, and comic making. 

Comic Books

SCIC Millennium Development  Goal Comics Now Available!

As part of its youth program, Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC) has taken on the task of creating a comic series for youth with each story centering around one of the eight Millennium Develpment Goals. The Millennium Development Goals were established at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000. World leaders agreed to a set time measured by goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. With the target year of 2015 and the cooperation of all the world's countries and leading development institutions these goals have spurred unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest.

SCIC's Millennium Development Goal comic series aims at creating awareness of global issues  through accessible, interesting and easy to understand stories in comic book form. Each story is centered around one Millennium Development Goal that educates on the issue through a personal and familiar- feeling narrative. The comics also aim to empower young readers to act by providing information about opportunities to get involved through volunteering or fund raising, or learn more about the issue introduced in the comic. The comics are great as a teaching resource, for those who work with youth, or to be enjoyed personally, by youth and adults!

Below are brief summaries of each of the comics currently available for purchase:

Millennium Development Goal #2: Universal Primary Education: Learning and Building Together is the story of a Burundian village’s experience of increased school enrolment due to the elimination of school fees from the perspective of Emanuel, a young boy.

Millennium Development Goal #3: Empower Women & Promote Gender Equality: Women on the Move is the story of a young girl who works with her mother towards the empowerment of women in the electoral system of Honduras.

Millennium Development Goal #4: Child Mortality: A World Safe for Children? is the story of two young Iraqi boys growing up during a difficult time in their country’s history.

Millennium Development Goal #7: Environmental Sustainability: A Forest in the Desert is the story of a Chinese woman and her family who set out to transform their desert habitat through tree-planting.

More stories coming soon!

Exhibit

SCIC youth program participants have created impressive artwork and creative media that have been assembled for an ongoing and travelling art exhibit, originally created for International Development Week. The media and art created by participants echoes global concerns that matter most to them. 

Contact Us:

For more information to order comics, to book the exhibit for your school/event, or to register for or inquire about the Do-It-Yourself Media Project!

SCIC Youth Program

(306) 757-4669

scicyouth@earthbeat.sk.ca

For more information about SCIC click here.