Become a Young Pioneers of Waste Less Feed Better
Support for our mission and vision, stay in close touch with our efforts to work towards a healthier Earth
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Free of charge
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Aged 11 - 17
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Cultivate your own initiative or community
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Make a positive impact in this world
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Participation in the Zero Hunger activities organised by Waste Less Feed Better
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Participation in the voluntary work of Waste Less Feed Better
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Regular e-information on SDG2 and SDG13
Hong Kong is known as a "food paradise", but according to its outstanding cuisine, the problem of food waste is far worse than other countries. About one-third of the garbage discarded every day in Hong Kong is food waste from household levels. Faced with crises such as the saturation of landfills and the destruction of the environment caused by large amounts of waste. Nearly two-thirds of poor families are in a food-deficient state. They often lack food or fail to afford high-nutrient foods, leading to unbalanced diets and health issues. These are issues that we have to think about. At the same time, food waste has a major impact on the environment, society and economy. For example, when climate action is still drastically increasing, if all the losses before the consumption link are taken into account, 8%-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are related to unconsumed food.
Waste Less Feed Better support global development initiatives, strengthen the importance of implementing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, actively respond to climate change, promote environmental management and ecological sustainability; and, under the international community’s environmental education initiative, actively cultivate the next generation of the insights on the conservation of the environment. The first priority is to enable students to master the knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to ensure that they have the right attitude and are willing to take action.
'Waste Less Feed Better is the leading of personal, leadership and academic development programs for young people. We believe the best way for our initiatives to be successful is for the community to actively get involved. This is an easy and efficient way of contributing to the great work we do. We are focusing on making this a turning point to recover better for people and the planet. It is designed to bring together people from leaders to citizens to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - also known as the Global Goals - as Covid-19 threatens to reverse decades of progress.'
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Eugene Ho, Director of Young Pioneers Project
How to be a Young Pioneers of Waste Less Feed Better
Young Pioneer are student who can see the patterns around them, identify the problems in any situation, figure out ways to solve the problem, influence others, organize adaptable and complementary teams, lead collective action and then continually adapt as situations change.
Being a Young Pioneer is not easy, but we believe that if we can empower an entire generation to be Young Pioneer, then we can unite under our goal to make the world a better place. Whether or not you align yourself with the SDGs, everyone has a role to play in helping us END HUNGER and CLIMATE CHANGE by the year 2030. Our ultimate vision for the future is that every young person, feels empowered, emboldened and inspired to take meaningful and intentional action in their communities and the world.
What is a Young Pioneer?
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Young Pioneer are tenacious in their fight for a better world. They understand that solving global challenges is not easy, and cannot be done overnight.
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Young Pioneer collaborate with others, listening to and empathizing with their ideas.
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Young Pioneer build teams of other young pioneers - not just like-minded young pioneer, but young pioneer with diversity of opinion and experience.
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Young Pioneer are resilient, and take challenges head-on.
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Young Pioneer are self-aware; they have a deep knowledge of their strengths, their personal mission, and how they can use their skills and interests to their advantage.
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Young Pioneer are action-oriented, and goal-driven. They lead with their values first. They inspire others and lead by example.
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Young Pioneer have the courage to do things differently and they defy the status quo.
To be a Young Pioneer, what you DO is more important than what you SAY!
Words don't transform the world. It is one thing to say that you want to solve a social problem, but another thing to do something about it. However, we should not just blindly act in whatever way that we feel is most appropriate, we must act intentionally and with empathy. It's not always easy to decide or understand what actions are the right ones to take, especially when there are so many critical global challenges to choose from.
“As you very well know by now, we are nothing without your actions. When we start to take actions toward the Zero Hunger (SDG2), we can never expect perfection, we must only strive for progress. We will trip, stumble and fall along the way, but if we wait for the right to time to start to act, we will waste away all of the time remaining until 2030.”
– Waste Less Feed Better
