Sikander Sabeer: February 2014

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Education for All Global Monitoring Report (@efareport) was launched by UNESCO

The Education for All Global Monitoring Report (@efareport) was launched by UNESCO.

Though the results for some countries seem hopeful,others are just disturbing.

Please See some of the data from the report:

"After 4yrs 77% of students unable to read a sentence"

"Global learning crisis hitting the poor currently in top 3"

This report reinforces the outcomes of the My World Survey and its overaching emphasis on Education as the first priority need of individuals in the #Pos2015 framework and the urgent need of investing in education for all.

Download the full report: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/

Featured at "Stories to Inspire 2013" by UN Volunteers - Sri Lanka and V Awards

Stories to Inspire is a publication by the UN Volunteers, Sri Lanka which contains the stories of the finalists of V Awards. The first edition of the book was published in 2011 for V Awards 2011 and this year, the 2nd edition was published with the stories of the 12 finalists of V Awards 2013.

http://www.vawards.lk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/VAwardsBook_Online.pdf

Friday, February 14, 2014

Annual Movie Screening ~ RCCN 2013/14

A Community Service Project for the Lovely bunch of little kids at Lawris Girls Home....Another project of Rotaract Club of Colombo North

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Community Service project at Sneha Child Development Center

A Community Service project at Sneha Child Development Center ~ RCCN 2013/14
Organized by Rotaract Club of Colombo North

Youth and Development - Sri Lanka National Human Development Report (NHDR) 2014

Watch This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEjOg0Zbldc

Published on Jan 30, 2014

UNDP's NHDR 2014 for Sri Lanka focuses on Youth and Development. This would also be a timely contribution to informing the deliberations during the World Conference on Youth 2014, which is being hosted by Sri Lanka with the backing of the United Nations system. Addressing national and global development challenges would inevitably entail providing youth with the support they need to contribute to the well-being of society. A youth-focused NHDR would help identify, through current data and analysis, the priority areas of support for youth as well as the most effective means of providing such support.

Spreading a Little Christmas Cheer

December 29, 2013 ·

· Taken at Mother Theresa Elders Home
~ "An evening with the elderly at Mother Theresa Elders Home, Mattakkuliya"
Joint Community Service Project of Rotaract Club of American National College & Rotaract Club of Colombo North in celebration of the joy of Christmas~

About Me

Sikander Sabeer is a product of Isipathana College and holding a first class with distinction Bachelors of Science (BSc) degree on Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology from Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka), an outreach campus of University of Mysore (India). Presently reading for his Masters of Science (MSc) on Business Management at National School of Business Management (Sri Lanka), an outreach post-graduate institute of University of Dublin (Ireland).

Sikanders’ development work can be categorized into three avenues, namely community service and community development; youth empowerment and professional development; climate change and sustainable development. Meanwhile his development work is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. In the action oriented phase, he gets in to the field and implements his ideas. He works very closely with multi-stakeholders such as children, school students, youth, corporates & business firms, UN agencies, non-governmental and government organizations on diversified projects at different levels and on different capacities. With his strong grass-root level initiatives and experience, he invests equal time on advocacy, mentorship and youth policy framework, which is a unique, and a strategic bottom up approach.

Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. He has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences, at some of the UN meetings I have served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team headed by HE president. Half of the world’s population is made up of young people and as a youth representative and a major stakeholder he had made several interventions on behalf of Global Youth and Sri Lankan youth at some of the UN conferences.

He has held several key positions in organizing several national and international events/programmes and he is one of the co-creators of the YOUTH is the word –Guinness World Record, where 1500 Sri Lankan youth stood to gather to form the largest human mosaic in the world.

His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development, Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the most prestigious “Commonwealth Youth Awards (CYA)” for Excellence in Development Work (2012), The CYA’s celebrate and recognize extraordinary young people among one billion audiences from 54 member states of Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging from poverty alleviation to education and protection of the environment. This is awarded by Commonwealth Secretariat (CYP) headed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He earned the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council Youth Empowerment Programme on 2010 for outstanding contribution for Voluntary Activities. He serves as a Youth Ambassadorial role for climate change and serves as a Youth Facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion program. Apart from these major recognitions his team earned U.S. Department of States Federal Assistant Award Grant for “Green the Home” project and Global Changemakers Community Action Project (CAP) and Regional Action Project (RAP) grants for Youth Empowerment Initiatives.

Presently Sikander is serving as an Assistant Manager for Business Development and Project Officer for recycling solutions for Neptune Recyclers (Neptune Papers [Pvt.] Ltd) in Sri Lanka, a member of multinational corporate Expolanka Holdings PLC. He works very closely with multi- stakeholders, especially with school students, Industries and Corporates on recycling solutions which create an additional income from the trash while minimizing the environmental pollution.

"Do as much as voluntary activities, because volunteers Inspire in Action, they make a real change in their community, they talk less and work a lot, but never expect any personal benefits from their action, Indeed one day they will earn the rewards, that’s confirmed; Install this in your mind “I will do the best I can”

-Sikander Sabeer-