Resources

Here are some resources to help you get informed!

Ottawa Youth For Change Youth Action Toolkit in English

Ottawa Youth For Change Youth Action Toolkit in French

French Toolkit translation provided by Karla Aguilar, TRADPLUS INTL

CIDA Youth Zone: Find out how you can get involved and be a more active global citizen. Make a difference in Canada and abroad!

Taking It Global: The largest online community of youth interested in global issues and creating positive change.

Roots and Shoots: The Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen—for our communities, for animals and for the environment. With tens of thousands of young people in almost 100 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a desire to create a better world.

Spread the Net: UNICEF is the largest purchaser of insecticide-treated bed nets in the world and provides them for free to governments in malaria-endemic countries. As many as 500,000 children could be saved every year if all children under the age of five in Africa slept under treated bed nets.

Free the Children: Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries.

Project Love: Project Love is a simple, award-winning public engagement program that combines the hands-on activity of assembling school kits, with global education lessons that complement school curricula across Canada.

Oxfam International: Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working together and with partners around the world to bring about lasting change. They work directly with communities and seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.