Introducing Listen Up! – A New Initiative of Lil's MDGs from Derry, NH. Listen Up! – A New Initiative of Lil's MDGs is one of the 15 finalists in the @15 Community Impact Challenge.
Lil’ MDGs is a non-profit with chapters of students passionate about international development worldwide, who’s mission is to leverage the power of the Internet and digital and social media to educate, engage, empower, and inspire children to help meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). They have been recognized internationally countless times for their efforts, most recently by the United Nations as the best practice in e-content and technological creativity, demonstrating young people’s potential to create outstanding digital content and serving as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together to meet the MDGs.
Listen Up! is a new initiative of Lil’ MDGs to help children between the ages of 5 – 10 understand the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a series of real-life movies, animations, songs, and games. While the animations and many of the lyrics will be conceptualized by Lil’ MDGs, the organization will use funding from the Challenge to work with previously identified professionals and recording studios to develop the songs and animations. These will then be will included on the website so young children can have fun while learning about important issues that affect both their local and global communities. The creations will also be made available on YouTube for easy viewing and on CDs/DVDs as appropriate to schools and libraries to make it available to a larger audience.
Between March 15-April 2, 2010, you get to decide which five of the 15 finalist teams of young social entrepreneurs will each receive $5,000 and which five teams will receive $1,500 each to expand their local ventures. So be sure to cast your vote on at15 between March 15 - April 2, 2010.
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