The International Movement for change (IMC)

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International Movement for Change (IMC)'s main goal is to develop youth, between the ages of 16 and 25, to become future social entrepreneurs, role models and community activists, by involving them in various IMC Community Action Projects (CAPs) and in-house training courses. Such experience and training will prepare them to:

·  develop and assume leadership roles within their own CAPs in order to benefit underprivileged people within their communities

·  contribute on a wider scale by working on Regional Action Projects and Global Action Projects, tackle broader goals (e.g. the Millennium Development Goals), and represent Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean by attending  One Young World Summits and British Council/Global Changemakers summits. 

Social Entrepreneurs:

  •  Identify social problems in society (poverty, crime etc.)
  • Attract the right people with the right skills to tackle such problems
  • Raise funding to tackle such problems
  • and use their management, leadership and people skills to successfully eradicate the problem within a specified period of time
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Millennium Development Goals:

  • End Poverty and Hunger
  • Universal Education
  • Gender Equality
  • Child Health
  • Maternal Health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Global Partnership
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VISION AND MISSION

Vision Statement

The vision of the proposed IMC will be to develop youth into future global leaders, role models and community activists. These youth, ranging between 16 to 25 years old, will influence, impact and infect positive change, thus contributing towards a happier and more sustainable world.

Mission Statement

To train and develop youth between the ages of 16 and 25 years to become future Social Entrepreneurs, who will identify social problems with their communities, regionally, and globally, and gather and manage the resources needed to solve such problems in a tangible, measureable way.

The IMC will identify social ills within our communities, regionally and internationally, and gather the necessary resources.

 

ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS

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Vision

Outline the broader vision that drives this project

 The vision of this project is to turn these disadvantaged youth into future social entrepreneurs and Global Changmakers who will in turn help future underprivileged, battered and homeless children that are in society.

What is the context of the issue you are trying to tackle in your country? Why is your project needed?

There is a severe lack, a deficit of Positive Male Role Models in the society of Trinidad and Tobago.In Trinidad and Tobago men are not upholding their responsibilities (Financial, Social and Spiritual) and also being proper parents in their homes. They are abandoning their responsibilities and are not being the “Male Figure” that society needs them to be.

These abused children would not turn into the same males who abandoned them; they would not turn to those negative social problems (Thieves, Drug Abusers, Rapists and Murders)

Most of these young boys and girls come from broken homes (or no homes at all). They are challenged forcefully in all aspects to turn to crime, violence and drug abuse. Their psyche is distorted because of their experiences in the past. Some of these boys had fathers who were thieves and were accustomed to a life of crime. Other parents were drug abusers and were exposed to coke and marijuana use. Some were buggered and abused physically and mentally. All of these experiences can create “monsters” in society who will continue the trend because they experienced it at home.

They need a Positive Male influence in their Lives

There are all sorts of influences in our society but Positive Male influence is almost extinct. These young boys/girls need men to befriend them (be a buddy), be a bigger brother, be that positive male influence that they can look up to. This project is needed to not only supply their immediate needs for clothes, shoes, food, blankets, toiletries etc. (see #8 for details), but also to curb the lack of positive male role models in society. So that these boys and girls wouldn’t grow up hating men or because they didn’t have that positive male influence, they turn to crime, violence and sometimes prostitution.