HORIZON INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS CLUBS

Dear Editor,

We would appreciate your posting this announcement. Please let me know if
you have any questions. I am so attaching a HORIZON Summary for you in case
you would like to include more information.

This is a note I sent to our HORIZON mailing ist followed by the announcement.
Cheers,
Janine Selendy

Note:

Before we could even completely refine the concept, we started to hear
from people who learned we were about to start HORIZON International
Solutions Clubs asking if they can help get them started. These offers came
from India to Tennessee, USA.

Please join in the effort.

If you would like to be sent an attached copy in order to have one
already formatted for posting, please let me know. Also, let me know if you
wish to be sent a HORIZON Summary and poster or other material.

If you wish to start Clubs and would like to know if there are Associates
near you who could help, please inquire.

Cheers and appreciation,
Janine

HORIZON INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS CLUBS

PURPOSE:

To join together in cooperation with HORIZON to find, encourage and develop
solutions to problems in health, environment, population, and development
that exist throughout the world and to help empower children, youth, young
professionals, and others through their participation as HORIZON Solutions
Site users, interns, research fellows and volunteers.

Regionally based HORIZON Associates (Interns, volunteers and research
fellows) will serve as advisors to Clubs and assist in implementation of
Club's activities.

Working with more than 130 organizations, HORIZON makes generally available
the knowledge of peer-reviewed solutions via the use of different forms of
media, such as television and the Internet, so that the solutions may be
economically replicated wherever they may be necessary or useful. The
solutions are for the benefit of people of all ages throughout the world,
from industrial leaders to micro-entrepreneurs, from agricultural experts to
small scale farmers, from wildlife preservationists to marine ecologists,
from public health workers to family planning experts, from government
decision makers to educators, and from young children to the elderly.

To increase HORIZON's effectiveness in its outreach through the HORIZON
Solutions Site, a collaborative effort with United Nations entities, the
International Development Research Centre, Yale University and HORIZON's
colleagues at Harvard, the HORIZON Solutions Site Kids of All Ages feature of
the Site, television programs and other multimedia outreach, participation in
international conferences and seminars and its participation with
organizations, museums, educational institutions, and other entities.

ACTIVITIES:

The following is a list of suggested activities which Clubs can undertake as
well as others Clubs design and plan in cooperation with HORIZON.

· Find solutions and prepare or help prepare case studies for the HORIZON
Solutions Site, especially ones designed and implemented by youth.

· Help further develop and replicate successful initiatives.

· Re-write case studies from the main Solutions Site for the Kids feature.

· Translate case studies and discussions into local languages and dialects.

· Become Youth Advisors

· Promote the HORIZON Associate Program.

· Create innovative interactive games for the HORIZON Solutions Site Kids of
All Ages based on information provided on the Solutions Site.
Games would be designed to be played alone or with groups or on the Internet
with kids in other locations.

The games would be designed to appeal to particular age groups and would
position the child as a decision-maker facing a global problem, such as
global climate change. The player would be faced with a given situation and
possible choices to counteract the problem. Through their answers, they would
see the direct impact of their decisions.

· Design and hold after-school programs to attract the participation of
others.

· Clubs can assist HORIZON's efforts to encourage use of the HORIZON
Solutions Site case studies and related information in school curricula and
to involve faculty and students in the research into successful initiatives
that might qualify as solutions for the HORIZON Solutions Site.
Help design and help disseminate ancillary curriculum materials.

· For regions of the world with limited computer access:
Create e-discussion groups to share information from and about the Solutions
Site and to attract new ideas and suggestions of solutions for possible
inclusion on the Site or for articles and discussions.

· Club activities can be promoted on the HORIZON Solutions Site Kids of All
Ages.

· In addition to through the HORIZON Solutions Site Kids of All Ages and the
main HORIZON Solutions Site, Horizon International Solutions Clubs will
disseminate information through newspapers, radio broadcasts and with the
help of cooperating organizations.

· Design and hold conferences and seminars for kids, especially with the help
of cooperating groups involved with successful endeavors or seeking to
address problems
Record and widely disseminate the results of those gatherings.

· Design and hold conferences for kids and their families for them to work
together with problem-solving, developing ideas, and seeking ways to promote
solutions presented on the HORIZON Solutions Site.
Where there is limited computer access, bring together people at central
locations, such as libraries, where they can have access to computer services
and make use of CD-Roms with the HORIZON Solutions Site, printed materials,
videos and radio programs.

· Train kids and adults in the use of the HORIZON Solutions Site and the
hundreds of resources it provides.
Encourage their sharing their thoughts in the Discussion section and their
participation in games and coming up with ideas for the HORIZON Solutions
Site for Kids of All Ages

· Hold interactive meetings and discussions, work on project design and
initiation, and participate in contests with other Clubs around the world.

· Create and hold Exhibits and produce Exhibits for the HORIZON Solutions
Site, for example the photographic-essay exhibit created by HORIZON's
Bolivian Associate now on the Solutions Site.

· Provide results of Club's efforts in multimedia formats as well as the case
studies they prepare for possible inclusion on the Site.
The best of the results will be highlighted on the HORIZON Solutions Site.

· Create catchy songs, memorable poems, humorous and serious skits and plays,
and other forms of entertainment to reach out with messages about solutions
and to encourage involvement in the search for successful initiatives and
replication in whole or in part of ones that can address the problems they
know about.

· Disseminate and otherwise make use of HORIZON television programs, video
clips from programs and news features, and downloadable posters, brochures,
and other material as well as all the information from the HORIZON Solutions
Site will be available for Clubs' use.

· Prepare videos of solutions initiated by young people and others for use
by organizations, schools, governments and corporations.
The best video productions will be featured by HORIZON in video streaming on
the Solutions Site and, when possible, disseminated for broadcast as news
features by television stations.

· Become involved with existing and start new radio programs, and when
possible, TV programs, focusing on solutions from the HORIZON Solutions Site
and on the Club's activities.
Talk shows can make use of clips from HORIZON's programs and forthcoming
radio versions of those programs and Public Service Announcements. They can
be fun shows making use of skits created by your own or other's HORIZON
International Solutions Clubs, and by others who contribute to the shows.
The best can be presented on the HORIZON Solutions Site and H.ORIZON
Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages

· Seek sponsors, when needed, for the production and broadcast of the
programs and for other Club efforts.

· Organize art contests, photography, painting and cartoon, and essay
competitions and debates.
Prizes can include international recognition on the HORIZON Solutions Site
and in its other multimedia outreach. Sponsors might offer cash prizes as
well as further recognition.

· Create for HORIZON and participate in other international events which
provide opportunities to contribute to sustainable and enhanced development
discussions and develop new strategies. For example, at a Youth Conference
on Environment and Sustainable Development in Borgholm, Sweden, on 23 to 27
May 2001, national youth reviews will be carried out on progress made since
1992 on environment and sustainable development issues and be followed by a
Global Youth Forum in Denmark from 22 to 31 March 2002.

· Work in collaboration with other HORIZON International Solutions Clubs,
civic organizations, government and non-government organizations.

· Provide assistance or participate in other ways that they can imagine or
desire that would
positively affect the mission of HORIZON Communications.

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From:
Janine M. H. Selendy
Chairman and President
HORIZON Communications
Yale University Department of Biology
P. O. Box 208103
New Haven, CT 06520-8103
USA
Tel: 203-432-6266
Fax: 203-432-6161
Personal:
Tel: 914-276-3155
Fax: 914-669-5298
Also: c/o Professor Andrew Spielman
Harvard School of Public Health
http://www.solutions-site.org
http://www.solutions-site.org/kids
http://www.yale.edu/horizon
http://www.knowledgebroker.org (a site established by UNDP with the HORIZON
Solutions Site and two UNDP sites: Info 21 and SDNP)

The HORIZON Solutions Site, www.solutions-site.org, presents readily
accessible peer-reviewed answers to problems in environment, health,
population and development. People profit not only from the knowledge
presented in the case studies which provides guidance for replication of the
successful initiatives, but also from reading about the inspiration, courage,
and dedication which brought these solutions into being. Submissions for
possible inclusion are invited.

The HORIZON Solutions Site collaborators are: International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Yale
University and HORIZON's colleagues at Harvard University.

HORIZON is an international not-for-profit research, development and film
production organization dedicated to fostering solutions to problems in the
areas of health, environment, development and population by maximizing the
use of knowledge of what can be and is being done to protect and improve life
on earth.

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