With governmental and international partnerships, the The Earth Guards Foundation organizes the Earth Guards Youth Forum for youth empowerment

Sustainable developmentand its seventeen goals are no longer reports or conferences, but rather have turned into a precise equation that attempts to balance three overlapping dimensions: a just society, a developing economy, and a clean environment; These are the dimensions that made development a common language between countries and institutions.

At the heart of this global transformation, the role of effective institutions in developing the awareness of societies is highlighted, includingThe Earth Guards Foundation, which works to achieve the goals of sustainable development and spread awareness of all its issues; In line with the axes of the national agenda, “Egypt Vision 2030,” and through an approach that sees the human being as a starting point and a starting point in any development process.

It is a role that the Foundation uses a non-profit strategy to perform, and a long-term cumulative approach to spreading awareness, in light of governmental and international partnerships in Egypt and abroad, asEarth Guardsbelieves that achieving a positive impact on development issues cannot be done in isolation from institutional cooperation.

All of this is the Foundation’s desire to raise the awareness of various segments of society about the importance of sustainable development in various fields and sectors. This is what it achieved through awareness campaigns and series on its digital platforms, in addition to the activities and initiatives it presented and organized that had an impact on the lives of community members, in addition to the paper and electronic information content it issued in Arabic and English through its magazine: Earth Guards Magazine.

The activities of theThe Earth Guards Foundationare also expanding to extend to organizing seminars and holding lectures related to the human right to comprehensive development, in addition to creating educational and community environments, in a way that consolidates the concepts of sustainability among members of all society.

Development Forum for Egypt’s Youth

In this context, the “Earth Guards Youth Forum” comes under the slogan “Ethics, Science, Leadership,” to be one of the most prominent activities in which the Earth Guards embodied the concept of moving from the stage of awareness to the stage of actual empowerment. Because it is an interactive platform that aims to reshape youth’s relationship with sustainable development outcomes and outcomes.

It is an event that came in cooperation betweenThe Earth Guards Foundation and a number of governmental and international partners, including:

• Ministry of Youth and Sports
• Egyptian Red Crescent
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• UNFPA
• UNICEF

This trend has shown direct harmony with the “2030 Sustainable Development Agenda”, especially the fourth goal related to quality education, the eighth goal related to decent work and economic growth, and the sixteenth goal related to strong institutions, peace and justice, in addition to the seventeenth goal, which focuses on partnerships as a basic pillar for achieving these goals together.

The participants thus gained a real opportunity to understand the actual structure of volunteer work, starting with local, international and online volunteering paths, passing through the mechanisms for joining institutions that work to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all the way to the nature of the roles that a volunteer can play within the development system.

Investing in Human Capital

On the other hand, the Earth Guards Youth Forum extended to building a set of basic skills, which represent the cornerstone of empowering young people and preparing them for the labor market and effective community participation. The most prominent of these skills are:

• Effective Communication
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Community Initiatives Management
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

These are skills that go beyond the limits of volunteer work to form a basic basis for any future professional path, and contribute to enhancing youth readiness for the requirements of the modern knowledge-based economy, especially since the forum relied on the methodology of open dialogue and interactive sessions with representatives of participating entities; This provided a space for direct discussion, exchange of experiences, and asking questions about realistic challenges in the field of development work.

Although the event of the Earth Guards Youth Forum was held in one day, its significance extends beyond the event itself; This day is the gateway to a series of extended events and activities that complete its course and deepen its impact. Let the Earth Guards continue to reformulate youth’s relationship with community work, so that youth empowerment becomes the title of efforts that seek to make the world a better place, as youth become active in making it.

In conclusion, the “Earth Guards Youth Forum” seemed to be a very influential station, and closer to a practical test of efforts to transform awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a discourse that is circulated into an ability that is practiced. Because the real bet here is on empowering youth and building partnerships that meet with strong institutions.

Therefore, this forum, which came in cooperation betweenThe Earth Guards Foundation and governmental and international bodies, can be viewed as a path in which the relationship between young people and their communities is rearranged, on the basis of actual participation in producing the future; In order to achieve the essence of comprehensive sustainable development: ethics, science and leadership.