HORIZON INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS CLUBS

HORIZON INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS CLUBS

Join in the action to make life better for all, to reduce global climate change, to save our wildlife, to improve health, to wipe out poverty and misery.

From Tennessee to India, from Nigeria to Peru, people are working with HORIZON and the HORIZON Solutions Site to form HORIZON International Solutions Clubs. You too can start a Solutions Club: your organization; your corporation; your school; your retirement group; to work together toward a better world.

Join in HORIZON's international work using information technologies and multimedia to create a growing network across geopolitical boundaries, as people find and exchange solutions to their most challenging problems -- together.

Discover and provide environmental, health, population, and sustainable development success stories. Help bring about their replication.

Join in this effort. Use HORIZON's resources. Add to its wealth of information. Work with HORIZON to reach out through the HORIZON Solutions Site, the HORIZON Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages, HORIZON's international television programs and other multimedia outreach, participation in international conferences and seminars and its participation with organizations, museums, educational institutions, and other entities.

Start a club, become a volunteer, serve as an intern. Share your solutions.

In more than 50 countries HORIZON's Associates (interns, volunteers and research fellows) are on hand to help, to provide advice and to work with you toward the implementation of Club's activities.

ACTIVITIES:

The following is a list of suggested activities Clubs can undertake. Clubs are invited to design and plan activities in cooperation with HORIZON.

Find solutions and prepare or help prepare case studies for the HORIZON Solutions Site, especially ones designed and implemented by youth.
Help further develop and replicate successful initiatives.
Re-write case studies from the main Solutions Site for the Kids area.
Translate case studies and discussions into local languages and dialects.
Become Youth Advisors
Promote the HORIZON Associate Program.
Create innovative interactive games for the HORIZON Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages based on information provided on the Solutions Site.

Games would be designed to be played alone or with groups or on the Internet with kids in other locations.

The games would be designed to appeal to particular age groups and would position the child as a decision-maker facing a global problem, such as global climate change. The player would be faced with a given situation and possible choices to counteract the problem. Through their answers, they would see the direct impact of their decisions.
Design and hold after-school programs to attract the participation of others.
Clubs can assist HORIZON's efforts to encourage use of the HORIZON Solutions Site case studies and related information in school curricula and to involve faculty and students in the research into successful initiatives that might qualify as solutions for the HORIZON Solutions Site.

Help design and help disseminate ancillary curriculum materials.
For regions of the world with limited computer access:

Create e-discussion groups to share information from and about the Solutions Site and to attract new ideas and suggestions of solutions for possible inclusion on the Site or for articles and discussions.
Club activities can be promoted on the HORIZON Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages.
In addition to through the HORIZON Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages and the main HORIZON Solutions Site, Horizon International Solutions Clubs will disseminate information through newspapers, radio broadcasts and with the help of cooperating organizations.
Design and hold conferences and seminars for kids, especially with the help of cooperating groups involved with successful endeavors or seeking to address problems

Record and widely disseminate the results of those gatherings.
Design and hold conferences for kids and their families for them to work together with problem-solving, developing ideas, and seeking ways to promote solutions presented on the HORIZON Solutions Site.

Where there is limited computer access, bring together people at central locations, such as libraries, where they can have access to computer services and make use of CD-Roms with the HORIZON Solutions Site, printed materials, videos and radio programs.
Train kids and adults in the use of the HORIZON Solutions Site and the hundreds of resources it provides.

Encourage their sharing their thoughts in the Discussion section and their participation in games and coming up with ideas for the HORIZON Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages
Hold interactive meetings and discussions, work on project design and initiation, and participate in contests with other Clubs around the world.
Create and hold Exhibits and produce Exhibits for the HORIZON Solutions Site, for example the photographic-essay exhibit created by HORIZON's Bolivian Associate now on the Solutions Site.
Provide results of Club's efforts in multimedia formats as well as the case studies they prepare for possible inclusion on the Site.

The best of the results will be highlighted on the HORIZON Solutions Site.
Create catchy songs, memorable poems, humorous and serious skits and plays, and other forms of entertainment to reach out with messages about solutions and to encourage involvement in the search for successful initiatives and replication in whole or in part of ones that can address the problems they know about.
Disseminate and otherwise make use of HORIZON television programs, video clips from programs and news features, and downloadable posters, brochures, and other material as well as all the information from the HORIZON Solutions Site will be available for Clubs' use.
Prepare videos of solutions initiated by young people and others for use by organizations, schools, governments and corporations.

The best video productions will be featured by HORIZON in video streaming on the Solutions Site and, when possible, disseminated for broadcast as news features by television stations.
Become involved with existing and start new radio programs, and when possible, TV programs, focusing on solutions from the HORIZON Solutions Site and on the Club's activities.

Talk shows can make use of clips from HORIZON's programs and forthcoming radio versions of those programs and Public Service Announcements. They can be fun shows making use of skits created by your own or other's HORIZON International Solutions Clubs, and by others who contribute to the shows. The best can be presented on the HORIZON Solutions Site and HORIZON Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages
Seek sponsors, when needed, for the production and broadcast of the programs and for other Club efforts.
Organize art contests, photography, painting and cartoon, and essay competitions and debates.

Prizes can include international recognition on the HORIZON Solutions Site and in its other multimedia outreach. Sponsors might offer cash prizes as well as further recognition.
Create for HORIZON and participate in other international events which provide opportunities to contribute to sustainable and enhanced development discussions and develop new strategies. For example, at a Youth Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development in Borgholm, Sweden, on 23 to 27 May 2001, national youth reviews will be carried out on progress made since 1992 on environment and sustainable development issues and be followed by a Global Youth Forum in Denmark from 22 to 31 March 2002.
Work in collaboration with other HORIZON International Solutions Clubs, civic organizations, government and non-government organizations.
Provide assistance or participate in other ways that they can imagine or desire that would positively affect the mission of HORIZON Communications.

The Clubs will be not-for-profit associations working in conjunction with HORIZON.

Contact: Janine Selendy