The Youth Environmental Networks of Mekong is a project to strengthen the “Our Rivers Our Life” campaign partners’ network in South East Asia. Therefore encouraging the potential youth-led groups in Mekong countries to join the online community and bring about change in environmental concerns.
Find us at:
The Mekong Youth Network
c/o Our Rivers Our Life campaign
The Terre Des Hommes regional working group on biodiversity
email: mekongyouth@gmail.com
http://mekongyouth.workpress.com/
Supported by Terre des Hommes, Germany
The term “terre des hommes,” means “earth of
humanity.”The term is taken from a novel by the French humanist Antoine
de Saint Exupery. How humane are earth’s societies? Perhaps one of the
best indicators is how they care for their children.
The first terre des hommes began in Lausanne, in the
French speaking region of Switzerland. Similar initiatives were taken in
other countries, and on January 8th, 1967, terre des hommes Germany was
founded. With a nucleus of 40 people, the organisation’s first actions
were rescue missions for war-injured children in Vietnam. For more than
30 years since that time, children in the South have been the focus of
terre des hommes. Wherever there is war, hunger or oppression, children
are the first victims.
Today, the German section of terre des hommes has its
main office in the German city of Osnabruck, and co-ordination offices
in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Regional Co-ordination Office for
Southeast Asia was established in Bangkok, Thailand in 1976.
Find more information at www.tdhgsea.org
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