1. Earth Charter Course Week 3 : Youth Sustainability Leadership First & Last Name : Maamoune Gaabour i Country : Morocco Field of study : Business administration

2. Challenge The high rate of illetracy, the lack of awarness of the majority of moroccan families and the inefficient education system impacts heavily the behavior of children in terms of citizenship principles. The combination of all these factors make our children unaware of values, principles and behaviors that make the members of a society real citizens.

3. Guiding principles 14.a: Provide all, especially children and youth, with educational opportunities that empower them to contribute actively to sustainable development. 9.b: Empower every human being with the education and resources to secure a sustainable livelihood, and provide social security and safety nets for those who are unable to support themselves.

4. Solution In order to make children aware of citizenship principles, we have thought of an original approach to tackle the problem. Here’s the idea: we’ll first write a 20 pages book entitled “citizenship book”. Each page of the book deals with one principle (for example saving water…).

5. The book will be written, of course, in a way that will be comprehensible for pupils of 10 to 12 years old. Also, to back up the distribution of the books to schools, we’ll visit the concerned schools twice every month, and we’ll study with the pupils a principle in each session. Here are some principles with pictures that will be included in the book:

6. Water is the most important thing in life, do not waste it.

7. I don’t throw the garbage everywhere, i put it into the blanket.

8. Whenever i have a useful idea, i take initiative to put it into practice.

9. P.S: The comments bellow pictures will be writen in arabic, our official language. This is our current project, we are about to finish the book, meanwhile we are looking for funds to print enough book copies. Our cooperation with a youth organization affiliated to a political party is about to be fruitful in terms of funding.

10. The coming project, that i consider my « dream project », is to carry out a feasibility study about recycling in Morocco. Garbage and waste management is one of the big challenges we face. I’m dreaming about the day, we’ll embrace this project. May be i’ll need your help guys, to provide me with informations about recycling in your countries.