Just Focus

Civil Society / Hapori Whānui Huatau

Youth Week 2008!

Youth Week aims to create a society that values young people and affirms their diversity. The week highlights the amazing things young people do all year.

Kaleidoscope 2007

Pip Bennett shares her amazing experience at the Oxfam International Youth Partnership event in Sydney in October.

Eco-prisoners: from the US to the Pacific

Across the globe there have been many brave acts of resistance against those exploiting both humanity and the environment. Unfortunately as global awareness of environmental issues increases so does repression of those brave enough to stand up.

WHAT’S UP WITH COKE?

Elisabeth Perham asks why people are boycotting and protesting against one of the worlds most recognisable brands?

Banking with Minutes

By Omar Hamed.

A young minor offender being sentenced by his peers, an American insurance company being paid for in time, a peer tutoring system that rewards students with recycled computers and Glasgow residents paying for tarot card readings by doing gardening. Four very different applications of one simple idea. Time as currency.

Global Education Centre