Overview of GCI
Today, the high poverty levels, unemployment, environmental hazards, health, educational challenges, and violence affect millions of youth. The Campus Initiative which supports GCAF’s ability to operate in over 100 higher institutions, encourages the youth in the country to work on issues related to human and environmental health, in youth development, capacity building, access to information on global issues and participation in meaningful recreational activities.
Youth achieving their dreams will in turn help the GCAF to carry out its own activities on behalf of world youth. Youth are exposed to friendly and professional training, activities, courses, and experiences, which they can utilize in future activities towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the world.
Students in higher institutions have a unique opportunity to gain access to widespread resources in order to increase public awareness about GCAF projects. The formation of student activist groups, forums and other international programs provide a medium for campus-wide education, advocacy and fundraising. The GCAF campus initiative creates a culture of advocacy for the programs and activities that relate to youth development, particularly through all forms of arts (literary, theatre, fine, and sonic) as basic strategies and vehicles for education, communication, behavior change, and activism.
While youth and students are benefiting from this effort by GCAF, we hope this initiative will also have a positive impact on the faculty and staff of the different higher institutions, and that youth will be encouraged by this to see themselves as future leaders. Through educating their peers, students are contributing to general youth development. This also ensures that the younger generation will produce a great number of people who support issues related to youth, and to young women specifically.
GCAF campus initiatives will set up concerts, festivals, arts exhibition, seminars, conferences, media programs; produce publications on important issues related to youth development; fundraise, advocate, and participate in the GCAF parent projects locally and internationally.
So far GCI has reached 85 campus chapters in Nigeria and currently in Ghana, it is targeting 260 campuses by 2008.
All projects done by the Campus Initiative are strictly youth-led, but supervised by the parent organization GCAF.
We have carried out a number events. Click here to read the full report on the activities of the 3rd day training and HIV/AIDS interaction among youths in Ifite-Awka
