About us -Japan Youth G8 Project
Mission
Poverty, environmental degradation, infringement of human rights, conflicts and terrorism. Despite we have entered 21st century, we are facing diverse issues both on the global and regional levels. Those issues are interlinked and thus the cross-sectional approach is essential. Japan Youth G8 Project (JYG8), an NGO established by Japanese young activists, hopes to bring one of the solutions for the complex issues by gathering the power of youth from all over the world.
We believe young people have rights and responsibility to raise a voice against injustice and unfairness. It is because we are the people who will be affected by the issues; and we are the people who will affect the future generation. In addition, JYG8 recognizes that the G8 Summit is a very important opportunity for us to accomplish our mission because it is a global forum where the heads of states and ministers from eight richest and most powerful countries gather in one place, though we also acknowledge that there are pros and cons regarding the existence of the G8 Summit.
Vision
As a set of projects towards G8 Summit in 2008, our short-term goals are
1) to deliver the voices of global youth to the G8 Summit and
2) to raise awareness among young people on the global issues.
However, our supreme goal does not reside in the G8 Summit. It is to establish a cross-sectional and independent platform of youth activists which makes youth activities more influential.
Our goal of establishing a platform for youth activists has been made based on our vision: we need a solid civil society to see a "sustainable society" in the near future. To make civil society more influential, we should be collective and strategic; hence, the platform will be designed in such a way that it enables youth activists more collective and strategic.