The Voice of the Nile, hopes to raise worldwide awareness around river issues. This fits into the larger River Voices Programme which aims to raise awareness on the importance of rivers for tackling global poverty
- Particularly among young people…
- Of river related development issues
- Of global actions that need to be taken to address them
- Of personal actions you can take to protect them
As a start, there was a pilot expedition in April 2009, along the Kosi River in North India. Scouts went down this river to explore river related development issues and created their own youth manifesto. Click here to read more about it and see what they found. They also GIS mapped their information and uploaded it onto Google maps and Google Earth. Here is a snapshot view of the Google map of the expedition.
View Voice of Kosi in a larger map
Here is a film about the expedition process and the youth manifesto developed by the scouts, based on what they found out during their expedition:
Click on this file below to follow their expedition and look at what they saw at each of the ten stops (marked by pin marks on this map). Click on each of the pin points to read details and see photographs. You could also press the play button below the expedition details (where it it displayed on the text panel in google earth) to zoom into each spot.
Scouts_Expedition.kmz (8.2 KiB, 340 hits)
(You need to have Google Earth on your computer to be able to view this tour. In case you don’t, click here to download and install it).
How to explore your river
If you or your scout group are keen on exploring a river close to where you live, we help you begin right here. Download this brief three-page guide (below) on how to get started or contact us for further information.
Explore_Your_River.pdf (1.1 MiB, 376 hits)
Two scout groups in the UK went down rivers to explore them and find ut more about how people living along these rivers were felt about them and were affected by floods.
1.The Claygate Explorer Scouts explored a part of the Thames that has been prone to flooding. See what they found on their exploration in the map below:
View Voice of The Thames. in a larger map
2. The Falmouth Explorer Scouts explored part of the Fal River from Truro’s flood defense to the Fal Harbour. Here is a map of their expedition:
View Voice of The Fal in a larger map