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Native name
  
सागर अर्याल

Name
  
Sagar Aryal

Home town
  
Dhading, Nepal


Nationality
  
Nepalese

Residence
  
Kathmandu, Nepal

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Born
  
September 10, 1995 (age 28) (
1995-09-10
)
Dhading, Nepal

Alma mater
  
Chelsea International Academy, St. John's College

Organization
  
Plant-for-the-Planet

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Sagar Aryal (Nepali: सागर अर्याल; born September 10, 1995) is a Nepalese youth, who is the founder and president of Sano Sansar Initiative. He was world president of Plant-for-the-Planet Global Board for 2012/13. Aryal is also the Youth Advisor / Mentor of United Nations Environment Programme - TUNZA since January 2012. Born in Dhading, Nepal, Aryal is pursuing his Liberal Arts education at St. Johns College in Annapolis MD. He was a community organizer in Kathmandu during his Elementary and Secondary School. He is a youth advocate on Environment, Education for Sustainable Development, Global Warming and Green Economy.

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Cop21 sagar aryal on climate impacts for mountain peoples and his latest campaign climatestrike


Activism

Sagar Aryal, founded Sano Sansar Initiative a platform for children and youth, in 2006 when he was 10 years old. With a motto of Education for All, his activism started by supporting children in rural part of Nepal with stationery materials through stationery support program and setting up libraries in the rural community schools of Nepal.

Aryal was the organizer of Little Doctors Program in 2009, a training for school children to discuss and know about the Primary Health issues their Prevention and Cure, where president of Nepal Dr. Ram Baran Yadav invited him and the children at his office for inauguration of the program.

Aryal has been involved in dozens of initiatives, organizations and networks to support in achieving Millennium Development Goals especially enhancing education, aware people about climate change, environment conservation and eradication of poverty through youth entrepreneurship. Similarly Aryal was one of the five founding members of Nepali Youth Task Force on RIO+20, to represent voice of mountains in RIO+20 and beyond.

Involvement / Positions Held

  • Climate Strike, Co-founder and Coordinator
  • Green the Gene, Organization Director
  • Plant-for-the-Planet, President, July 2012 to July 2013; Secretary General, Nov 2016 - Current;
  • Sano Sansar Initiative, Founding President since February 2006
  • United Nations Environment Programme - TUNZA, National Youth Advisor since January 2012 to February 2014
  • United Nations Global Compact, Local Network Nepal Steering Committee Member from March 2011 to March 2012
  • Education

  • Chelsea International Academy, June 2011 to June 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • St. John's College, Annapolis, MD
  • Representations

  • Young Agenda Conference, June 2010, Stavanger, Norway
  • TUNZA International Children and Youth Conference, September 2011, Bandung, Indonesia
  • 7th South Asia Youth Environment Network Regional Meet, January 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • TUNZA Asia Pacific Children and Youth Conference on Environment, February 2012, Ahmedabad, India
  • Asia Pacific Graduates Youth Forum on Green Economy, September 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • References

    Sagar Aryal Wikipedia


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