VONG gives the new generation a common platform to express the ideas, find like-minded people and build synergies. Program participants learn about improving communication skills, enhancing teamwork, building partnerships, and thinking critically. VONG encourages them to enhance their understanding of critical themes including climate change, clean and affordable renewable energy, ethics, equality- equity, clean water, zero hunger, etc. We use the gamification method to teach and bring awareness among our vongsters and give them a real lifetime experience to learn things. We develop and enhance platforms and hold spaces that help our new generation to engage with communities, domain experts, and authorities through summits, panel discussions, debates, and focussed research – individually and in teams. We manage several engagement channels on social media platforms, nurture views and opinions and help them become powerful voices for the betterment of the world.
An endangered species is a type of organism that is threatened by extinction. Species become endangered for two main reasons: loss of habitat and loss of genetic variation. As we all know, Human activity can also contribute to a loss of habitat. Development for housing, industry, and agriculture reduces the habitat of native organisms. This can happen in a number of different ways. Hence, in this case of utmost case of emergency, Our Vongsters have joined their hands with the Vongles to actually work and dedicate themselves on saving this creature, with whatever the best way that can come up. So, now deep dive and see what we as a team have come up with some great ideas.
The first Meet-up for the month of October was held on 4th October 2022, on Zoom platform at 19:30. Nearly about 40 people participated in the Meet-up activity. There were 6 teams which participated in this, and they are Enlightening Phoenix, Voldemort, Roaring Ravens, Shining Falcons, Rising Burgeons and Trending Transformers. Each team were associated with one animal upon which they had to work and come up with ideas. The animals were i)Pangolin ii) Asian Elephant iii) African Elephant iv) Asian Rhino v) African Rhino vi) Tiger. The topic for this round was VONG’s Stance on Wildlife Trade: A Blog. The type was Blog Writing. There were different stages for this meetup to be conducted namely Blog writing, Presentation and # developing. They were basically three rounds involved in this as the pre-meetup activity was BLOG writing – min 500 Words- 1) Introduce your animal. 2) Explain its importance in ecosystem. 3) Study the 3 Appendices of the CITES and answer the following: i) Under which appendix is your animal listed? ii) Whether it should be shifted to some other list? iii) Valid reasons to support your answer in ii). You are free to use data to support your reasons.
During the meetup activity they came up with Teams were asked to write a blog and submit it as a pre meet up activity 24 hours before the zoom meeting. In the zoom meet up, the blog was shared with everyone, and teams had to speak on the content of the blog, why the blog should be supported and how is it unique. The time limit of each presentation was 5-7 mins. The speech included all important points covered in the blog. As a post meet up activity, vongsters came up with a hashtag for their animal with the rationale behind it of 100 words which were uploaded on our social media. During the meetup activity they came with excellent ideas and strategies that can be implemented upon a personal level in the lives so that we can move a step closer towards saving these voiceless creatures and can do some justice to them.
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