PRIDE YOUTH AMBASSADOR
Code of Ethics
PRIDE members residing in different parts of the globe and involved in a variety of careers, are unified in their pursuit of moral, material and intellectual enrichment. All members are committed to furthering social justice, promoting peace, and developing innovative ways to maintain human dignity and opportunity while pursuing technological advancement. PRIDE emphasizes that its Ambassador Members be excellent citizens, and that they share their high standard of citizenship with others. This may best be accomplished through regular meetings between the members and their friends, which will provide an ideal forum for the interchange of creative thought..
PRIDE makes available to its members a wide diversity of professional and technological expertise, unrestricted by barriers of race, creed, or nationality, with which the membership may interface in mutual areas of interest and concern. A major focus of the PYA program is to develop a humanitarian commitment. Children and youth, worldwide, are victims of poverty, starvation, violence, abuse, and religious conflict. These wrongs need to be challenged by youth who are empowered to do so, and the students are taught how to break down barriers by the use of cross-cultural literacy to bridge gaps between societies, and how to use peer power-- worldwide-- to assist those efforts.
The PYA students also receive instruction in conflict and violence prevention skills and for emergency preparedness. The PYA program enables its students to connect global policies to local applications. PRIDE Youth Ambassadors learn to lead at local and diplomatic levels first hand. The PYA program provides instruction on how systems work to enable the youth to become part of and use those systems for positive effect, learning how to acquire grants and funding, and how to develop coalitions and use UN and NGO strategies to empower projects of local and federal interests.
The PYA program places emphasis on the need to ‘be the change’ in one’s own conduct and actions, and the importance of developing commitment and perseverance to follow through to the long-term achievement of their goals. These disciplines lead the students to new life enriching program and career options.
Students completing the entire PYA program are granted a formal PRIDE Certificate of Qualification to attend special United Nations sessions as a PRIDE Representative and Academic Centers are notified of this Distinguished Honor.
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