The Healthy and Environment-friendly Youth (HEY) Campaign is all about creating a generation of young people committed to adopting lifestyles that are both healthy and environmentally friendly, and leading global advocacy efforts to build inclusive societies where priority is given to life and dignity, not just economic growth.
Our agenda is to create a movement bringing all of our youth and children together, in their diversity, to promote and advocate for these shared values.
In April 2020, together with a group of Caribbean-based youth, we have launched the HEY (Healthy and Environment-friendly Youth) Campaign, calling for a new global movement to place children and youth at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and change the way we work on child health, in the context of climate change.
This is a Caribbean-initiated project with global intents, which we hope will contribute to build bridges between young people from around the world about the important issue of the impacts of climate change on our health – as well of course as the health of our planet.
We are particularly proud to partner with UNICEF, Clara Lionel Foundation, and the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI), which we see as a unique opportunity to empower children and young people of today and tomorrow to live healthy lifestyles in harmony with nature.
My name is Ashley Lashley, UNICEF Youth Advocate, Social Sciences student and Miss World Barbados 2018. In December 2019, I founded the Ashley Lashley Foundation, building on four years of activism, including the creation of The Schools Against Non-Communicable Diseases in 2016, while I was still at school.
In April 2020, together with a group of Caribbean-based youth, we have launched the HEY (Healthy and Environment-friendly Youth) Campaign, calling for a new global movement to place children and youth at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and change the way we work on child health, in the context of climate change.
This is a Caribbean-initiated project with global intents, which we hope will contribute to build bridges between young people from around the world about the important issue of the impacts of climate change on our health – as well of course as the health of our planet.
We are particularly proud to partner with UNICEF and the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI), which we see as a unique opportunity to empower children and young people of today and tomorrow to live healthy lifestyles in harmony with Nature.
