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ON
Youth Conference
LI N
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2020
A message from the Your Kaiwhakaatu
team before you begin Your Hosts
‘Tena koutou, Kia ora e te whanau!
We’re so excited to share Youth We're the World Vision Schools team
Conference with you. Today, and we’re here to serve you in your
we’re going to start a journey of ambitions to change the world! If
understanding what’s happening you need anything – from resources,
outside of our communities, beyond help organising the 40 Hour Famine,
these shores, and what we can do someone to speak at school, or just Rachel and Matt Renata
about it as young people. Together, a chat, please be in touch. We love
Rachel and Matt are two people who love the world that we live in, as well as
we’re going dive deep into issues that hearing from you – it makes our day!
each other. Rach is Nga Puhi, Japanese and Pakeha and grew up in Wellington.
affect us and our global brothers and Email: Schools@WorldVision.org.nz
She is super passionate about humans discovering their own awesomeness
sisters. We’re here for you, and you
and loves to celebrate people finding their way to share their hearts with
can count on us to make a change in
Leilani, Maria, others. Matt is Maori, Indian and Spanish. He practiced youth and community
this world. Can we count on you?
Jono and Philippa development work in Lower Hutt for eight years, and recently moved to
Schools team, Tamaki Makaurau to study Indigenous Theology. They have a burning desire
Izaac, Dan, Alyssa, World Vision New Zealand to see the people of our nation lifted up, and our communities functioning to
Hayley and Jess. their full potential.
World Vision Ambassadors 2020
Get Share with the world what you're
Social #40HOURNZ up to and what you're learning.
@40hourfaminenz
Division to Kotahitanga:
the world around us
The world I see...
DIVISION TO UNITY
"There is no 'us'
and 'them',
there is only us." So I choose to...
– Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries
A HUMAN CRISIS
Speakers Leadership lessons: homegrown
heroes turning division into unity
SAM JUDD
Sam Judd Bariz Shah and Saba Afrasyabi
In co-founding Sustainable Coastlines Bariz and Saba are strong, faith-filled
NZ Sam Judd left a legal career and leaders, who are passionate about
focused fulltime on looking after the serving their community. Bariz
places we love; our ocean and our and Saba were the leaders of the
waterways. A keen surfer, spear- University of Canterbury Muslim
fisher and father, he leads from Students Association at the time of
the front and loves to get stuck in, the Mosque attacks and lead their BARIZ SHAH AND SABA AFRASYABI
most recently working to develop community through a time of pain
the capacity of marae-based social with deep commitment to finding
enterprises at scale. This project a way forward. They are motivated
will plant millions of native trees/ by micro solutions that have macro
plants in collaboration with prison impact, and have just returned
nurseries, labour from community- from working with 51 Afghani men
based offenders and multiple local and women in establishing micro
and government partners to improve businesses for them - each in
wellbeing of our people by creating representation of one who lost their
jobs for those who need them most. life in the attacks exactly one year
ago to this week.
Find out more:
sustainablecoastlines.org Find out more:
fiftyonefilm.org
FAST Let’s fight against hunger
FACTS
Taking action: and injustice in Malawi
how can we play our part? 71.9%
Are subsistence farmers
YOUR SPHERES OF IMPACT: TE WHARE TAPA WHA 1.4M
In need of food security
TINANA (Physical)
430,000
Children affected by floods
World Vision 40 Hour Famine:
“Everyone thinks of
changing the world,
but no one thinks of
changing themselves”
HINENGARO (Mental) – Leo Tolstoy
Planning on
WHANAU (Family) doing the 40
Hour Famine?
#40HOURNZ
Find out more at
famine.org.nz
Become a World Vision Ambassador
Lead the 40 Hour Famine at your school, and you
could be a World Vision Ambassador next year!
Thank you!
40 Hour Famine Advocacy We want to say a huge thank
Every year, a team of 15 you to your teachers. We have so
Just like the Ambassadors you saw
Ambassadors create tangible change much respect for the work they
on stage today, you could join us at
through an advocacy campaign that do every day to support you in
World Vision for a six-month long
they design and lead with World your journey through young
paid internship. As an Ambassador,
Vision's support. Over the last two
you’ll travel to one of our amazing adulthood. So, spare a thought
years, they've helped to abolish
programmes and see the incredible for them today, and all days,
a racist refugee policy from New
impact your fundraising has, as well Zealand, and lobbied to see all and say ‘thank you!’ to them
as being the public face of the World children removed from detention for making this conference
Vision 40 Hour Famine in Aotearoa. camps on Nauru Island. Two huge possible for you.
To be eligible, you have to lead the wins. Advocacy roles are voluntary,
World Vision 40 Hour Famine at four hours a week.
your school this year, be in your first
or second year out of high school, Register your interest
and have your full New Zealand for these roles at
drivers licence by February 2021. wvnz.org.nz/ambassadors
Unity
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