YTB Global Collaboration

YTB Global – Reciprocity Times – 2022.06.03

Youth TimeBanking or YTB is youth-adult partnerships of giving & receiving of our time that build strengths & social connections and that promote positive youth & community development.

https://ytbglobal.org.

YTB Global is a 501(c)(3) virtual, nonprofit with adult coordinators and youth-adult projects in locations in the US, Jamaica, Uganda, Cameroon, Mongolia. YTB Global | Every.org

YTB Global & Children’s Hope Mongolia (CHM)

Many countries celebrated World Children’s Day 2022 on June 1, including Children’s Hope Mongolia (CHM), a nonprofit organization based in Ulaanbaatar whose mission is to end childhood hunger and provide the necessary medical equipment and supplies to the local children’s hospitals in Mongolia. YTB Global and CHM are collaborating on the No Hungry Child campaign to raise funds to obtain a food truck to bring hot meals to children living in poverty in Ulaanbaatar’s ger (tent dwellings) districts. For World Children’s Day this year, Children’s Hope Mongolia went to some of the most secluded shanty towns to distribute children’s food relief boxes. 440 boxes were distributed including some toys. We are also introducing Mongolian youth to Youth TimeBanking and shipped a Little Free Library to Ulaanbaatar to be assembled in time for the start of the new school year in September.

To support the No Hungry Child Campaign, we are inviting people to send in a Haiku or a Simple Soup Recipe of their choosing to be considered for upcoming issues of YTB Global Reciprocity Times. Use this YTBGnews Form to send your Haiku or soup recipe or ideas.

This is our first Haiku and Simple Soup recipe.

Haiku for YTB Global

Campaign ends hunger

Reciprocity holds hope

For No Hungry Child

Simple Soup – Community Made

Cabbage Soup Ingredients:

• Large pot, half-filled with water, to hold ingredients.
• Small-medium cabbage, chopped.
• Add other ingredients as you like: onion, tomatoes, edamame, celery, carrots, peas, beans, other…
• Bring to boil and simmer for an hour or more as you like.

Support the No Hungry Child campaign with a donation CHM-NoHungryChild | Every.org

Please leave a comment saying why you donated. Thank you on behalf of CHM & YTB Global!

Have Fun with YTB Wordle

Learn about YTB with our custom Wordle. Each word is five letters, and you have six chances to find the word. The YTB word will be explained in a post within the next few days. PLAY YTB WORDLE

A few notes about "Why YTB"

"We have what we need if we use what we have." 

~Edgar Cahn

The above quote by Edgar Cahn, author of No More Throw-Away People – The Co-Production Imperative and co-author of The Other Pandemic: Social isolation and timebanking with Christine Gray, represents the essence of timebanking and the inspiration for Youth TimeBanking.

Timebanking is a system of service exchange that uses time as the currency. It is the ongoing activity of service contributions with and for other people and organizations. The service time is logged with some software tool or on paper. There is no requirement to balance the time given, or service and support received. In other words, it’s OK to go into “time debt.”

The Five Core Values of TimeBanking teach us that each person is an Asset, that everyone has something of value to share with someone else. Refining Work reminds us that non-paid work is a big part of our life - the things we do to help each other and our community. The third value is Reciprocity - the giving, receiving, and paying it forward of skills and support and how we work together to create our world. As we help each other, Social Networks are formed; communities of support, strength & trust. The fifth value is Respect; the positive regard we have for each other given the spectrum of human differences.

YTB expands a youth’s network of people, places, and things they can rely on as they transition into adulthood. YTB fosters positive inter-reliance with others. Relationships of trust and respect are formed: peer-to-peer, near-peer, youth-adult, and intergenerational solidarity.

YTB is organized across four themes of Community CALM. C for Care and service to others, A for Apps and the use of technology for good, L is for Literacy and Learning, M is for making physical things for others or the community. Youth-adult partnerships recommend projects and activities such as community garden, Little Free Library, graphic design, recovery support, virtual tours of animal sanctuary, training, letter exchanges, and other events that share skills and interests.

YTB provides opportunities to change the odds for youth. Youth earn YTB credits that are applied toward support, help, and resources for their interests and development. Ongoing participation contributes to positive self-regard, community belonging, and sustainable change for the better. And keeping YTB fun and useful is part of the magic.

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