On 3rd October at Chittagong Police Institution Auditorium, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, hosted a schools debate on how climate change affects their immediate area. Sitakund Girls School defeated P.H. Amin Academy in the final round to become Champions of the Coastal Kids Debate Competition 2013.  The topic for the final round was “Climate Change is responsible for tidal flooding at Chittagong city.” Eight schools participated in the Coastal Kids debate competition, with students from classes 6-8:  CDA Public School and College, Halishahar PH Amin Academy, Saint Plasid High School, Chittagong Police Institutions, Sitakund Girls School, Sitakund Govt. Adarsha School, Mirarsarai Pailot High School and Mirarshari Sarkerhat High School. YPSA arranged the Coastal Kids debate competition with the support of Displacement Solutions. Read more about the Coastal Kids Chittagong Debate....

[caption id="attachment_1322" align="alignright" width="150"] Nauti Primary School grounds, Funafuti, Tuvalu[/caption] One of DS' latest projects - Coastal Kids - will be starting in earnest in early 2012. The Coastal Kids Project will initially bring schools and students living in coastal areas in Bangladesh, Kiribati and Tuvalu into direct contact with schools and students in Australia who are also themselves coastal dwellers. Using communications technology such as Skype and other forms of internet-based connections and learning, the Coastal Kids Project will bring children from these four countries into direct face-to-face contact during which time they can discuss the reality of climate change, learn how climate change is affecting them and what kids in all of these countries can do to better understand the needs and wishes of coastal kids everywhere. Check here soon for further updates!...

To everyone who is a parent and to those who are yet to become or may never become parents, what is one of the first things that parents seek to teach their young children? What life lesson does every parent notwithstanding their culture, religion, level of wealth or any other distinction, seek to impart to every child as a cornerstone of being a good person, doing the right thing, living as a kind human being? Of course, that first life lesson all across the globe is simply to do no harm, do not kill or hurt another human being. And close behind that basic part of what it means to be human is this: Do not steal. Do not take what is not yours to take. But in a world where in every culture, every legal system, every religion, every set of moral principles, everywhere stealing is seen as wrong, a crime and something for which people should be punished, there sure is a lot of stealing going on. And very much as is the case with the murder of another human being if you murder one other person you will likely go to prison for life no matter where…...

We are excited to announce our plans to expand our One House, One Family at a Time Project to directly benefit climate displaced families. We began this project with our partners YPSA in Bangladesh and have built homes for more than 50 people thus far, and are deep into Phase 3 of OHOF-Bangladesh. If you would like to contribute to this project, please be in contact and we will walk you through the process: info@displacementsolutions.org. We are now in the process of planning to launch three new OHOF Projects in 2022 - OHOF-Papua New Guinea, OHOF-India and OHOF-Sri Lanka. We will have a lot more to report next year but wanted to let everyone know that this world's first programme designed to directly benefit climate displaced families funded entirely by ordinary people who want to make a difference is strong and growing. Top achieve our results we need your help, so please do consider making a donation and know that - as always - DS takes no funds for this project and does the work associated with it on a voluntary basis meaning that 100% of your contribution goes straight to the countries where the housing construction takes place.  Please…...