The Bank of I.D.E.A.S. is committed to the active
participation of young people in community and thus seeks to assist communities to
fully integrate young people into all their development processes, recognising
that young people bring unique assets and contributions.
The
Bank of I.D.E.A.S.' has been involved in the development of young people
through:
C.R.E.A.T.E. stands for
Creating Rural Enterprising Attitudes Through Education. Currently, its major
funding sponsor is the Federal Department of Education, Science & Training
through the 'Enterprise Education for the 21st Century' initiative.
The C.R.E.A.T.E. initiative sets out to empower young people in
rural communities around Australia with enterprising mindsets and skills so they
can contribute to the economic and social development or revitalisation of their
local economies.
As part of the C.R.E.A.T.E.
Initiative and its own corporate responsibility, the Bank
of I.D.E.A.S. is helping establish
Lead On Kalamunda. The Bank of I.D.E.A.S. is seeking to partner with other
Kalamunda businesses, community and educational organisations and individuals
who desire to facilitate opportunities for Kalamunda young people to design and
implement meaningful community initiatives that will build a stronger and
healthier Kalamunda community.
Lead On is a national project initiative that was
launched by the Bendigo Bank in cooperation with a host of community and
business groups.
The r.u.MAD? Program is an initiative of the Education Foundation, helping
young people change their world. By identifying opportunity, problems and challenges in their school. local or global community, students and teachers set out to "Make a Difference" in realistic and achievable ways.
The Bank of I.D.E.A.S. is embracing the r.u.MAD?
concept in its own community of Kalamunda WA and by making it a key resource of the C.R.E.A.T.E. Initiative.
As part of the C.R.E.A.T.E.
Initiative and Lead On Kalamunda, the Bank of I.D.E.A.S. is helping to
facilitate the creation of W.A.'s first youth led newspaper - The Kalamunda
Community Matters - a monthly, 16 page tabloid newspaper.
Ethiopia is one of the poorest nations in the world, ranking 171st from 174 countries. In 2004, Peter Kenyon was involved in helping facilitate a workshop on National Youth Policy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. During his time in the country, Peter was fortunate to visit a sub city of Addis called Ledeta, a home to 80,000 children and young people. In this area, there are only two small and substandard libraries.
A team of local young people lead by Konjit Berhanu, a trained lawyer, but someone who has opted to work directly with the needs of homeless young people, had the vision of creating a space and library for children and young people. The Bank of I.D.E.A.S. decided to support the efforts and
has contributed financially from its Community Youth Development Fund to
establish the facility and then coordinate the collection and transport of children and youth books, videos and games and facilitate others who may wish to support.
Bank of I.D.E.A.S. has facilitated the
development of National Youth Policies / Strategies with 16 countries within the Pacific, Asia,
Africa and Middle East areas and authored three publications on such themes. Recently,
the Bank of I.D.E.A.S. has been involved with the development of National Youth Strategies in Bahrain, Jordan, Palestine
and Yemen and will shortly be involved with the development of the Somalian
National Youth Policy. Peter Kenyon of the Bank of I.D.E.A.S. was a foundation
member of the International Council of National Youth Policy (ICNYP) based in
Vienna, Austria and was recently asked to serve as President (2006-2008).
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