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Act Now for the Environment
Beyond Borders presents Project Act. Our green initiative. The poster says it all really. Be sure to subscribe to our official blogspace and twitter feed. Project Act will take off this 24th at Wellawatte Beach at 8.30 a.m. timed to coincide with the International Day of Climate Action, and will go on until March 2010.
Our vision is [...]
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Want a Revolution?
Well you’ve got time ’til 17th of September!
We believe that it is time youth had a say in how society is run. If you have big ideas (the more unconventional the better) and don’t have a platform from which you can launch them; then Beyond Borders is right up your alley.
We are currently looking for people [...]
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Jerked
Jerk? went well. The turn out was good and the cast was in top form. Many intervened and came up with their views and we are grateful to everyone who was present for helping us make it a success.
We are in the process of preparing a report on our findings and will share it as [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders, Forum Theatre, Social Change, Youth Participation
We are now calling for applications for young people between the ages 18 to 24 who are passionate about social and development issues and wanting a platform. Please find out about who we are and what we do (but considering that you’re here reading this, we would assume you would know these things), and if [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Youth, Youth Organization
TEDx-ed
TEDxColombo which we invited our readers for, went off quite well. The audience was good, and the speakers on board for the event did it justice and it sparked some controversy. All in a good day’s work.
While we’re awaiting approval from TED to put the videos up, we do have a few photos from the [...]
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Tags: Colombo, Event, Sri Lanka, TEDx, TEDxColombo, Youth
As readers of this blog would know, we are hosting TEDxColombo, a spin off from the world renowned TED conference. Based on the theme of “Ideas for Sri Lanka’s Future” at this important juncture in our history, the event would feature 4 live speakers and 3 Ted talks and lots of space for discussion, debate [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders, Conference, Sri Lanka, TED, TEDx, TEDx Colombo
We are TEDx-ing. Come.
Beyond Borders is hosting a platform where ideas for the future will be unveiled and discussed by leading academics, activists and media persons of Sri Lanka, in the form of TEDxColombo.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and the TED conferences started out as an event bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its [...]
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Tags: Change, Colombo, Conference, Ideas, Sri Lanka, TEDx, TEDxColombo, Video
Let alone Nestomalt, it was the best cup of anything I’ve ever drunk in my life. Honestly speaking, it was the first cup of Nestomalt I’ve ever drunk, cos’ I hate the stuff usually. Enough about me and Nestomalt, let me tell you why it was the best cup I’ve ever drunk!
I’m going to be [...]
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Tags: AID, Colombo, Help, IDPs, Sri Lanka, Story
The first AGM
Since we are now a registered legal entity, and that requires us to have an AGM, we did. It was held last week at the British Council Auditorium, with the participation of present and returning BBites. Current General Secretary Nooranie Muthaliph was re-elected, as we agreed that he was doing a good job.
Niranjan de Silva [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders Sri Lanka
Our TOT on Citizenship Education
Went well. Most of the guys who applied were a bit older than we expected, but we had diverse range of organizations and backgrounds were represented. Hopefully some of these guys would start their own initiatives of civic education in their communities.
What Beyond Borders hopes to achieve is to create a bunch of people competent [...]
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Tags: Citizenship Education, Civic Education, Colomvo, Education, Reform, Sri Lanka
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