To unge lancerer en dansk gren af, United Nations Youth Association, hvor unge danskere kan komme tættere på FN ved hjælp af frivilligt arbejde. Målet er at skabe mere engagement i FN og FN-relaterede emner.
A new UN youth organisation is to start up in Copenhagen, and it is calling for volunteers.
”We are a young startup, and the organization is supposed to be a space for people to fill up with activities, events and projects within the United Nations scope,” says Johan Juul, one of the founders of the Danish chapter of the organisation.
The other founder, Mignote Libsekal, an international studies student at Roskilde University, came up with the idea of creating the UNYA Denmark after working with the Model UN. Other countries had UN youth associations and she figured that Denmark needed one as well.
Organic platform
The goal is to increase active involvement in the UN and UN-related issues. For that purpose, UNYA will serve as an umbrella for other youth organizations. But Mignote doesn’t want the organization to become a bureaucratic awareness-raising platform.
”We envision it to be more of an organic platform, where people come in and we try to figure out a place for them, that fits what they want to do, how they want to contribute, how they want to get involved”, she says.
On Saturday, the organization will be introduced in greater detail, and participants in the event will get to know the associated organizations and their projects.
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