Education United States Project #43375

BOOST MENTAL HEALTH FOR 3MIL KIDS IN 180 COUNTRIES

by Six Seconds

Project Report | Sep 19, 2024
"Climate in your hand" POP-UP Campaign

By Patty Freedman | Creative Director

kids in Japan

Hi Friends-

Last year’s 2023 global campaign for POP-UP featured “Color my heart” activity. It celebrated emotional literacy and was widely shared through the volunteer network. Over 2500 participants joined in the campaign. The children’s artwork was shared in the end of the year video.

There were photos from students in Ukraine, kids (and pets!) in Japan, families in China, even a police officer participated at the local park. So many volunteers shared the “Color my heart” activity that has become the most popular POP-UP Festival activity to date.

This year we are very excited to announce POP-UP Festival is coordinating a 2024 global campaign called “Climate in your hand.” This activity highlights our work on SDG 13 for climate action. It encourages participants to identify their feelings about climate and supports them to transform their feelings and take action.

POP-UP Festival wants to prioritize youth wellbeing and climate based on a new report from UNICEF USA titled "From Eco-Anxiety to Eco-Optimism." The report explores how youth view climate change today, their emotional and practical approaches to dealing with it, and what they demand more of to drive meaningful and attainable change

Findings include:

57% of global youth are "Eco- Anxious"
More that 1 in 3 youth surveyed experience high levels of anxiety about climate change.

We will send updates on this project as it develops and share the photos from the campaign. Looking forward to a wonderful POP-UP Festival season with activations in many countries. Our team of mentors are ready to support new volunteers with training and encouragement!

If you have not yet participated in POP-UP Festivals please join us to experience the fun and transformation. To get access to all 70+ activities in the POP-UP Library follow the links below.

With gratitude-

Patty

local police participating in POP-UP

students in Ukraine

families in China

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May 20, 2024
Meet the POP-UP Team

By Patty Freedman | Creative Director

POP-UP Leaders at UNICEF House

POP-UP Festival staff is growing! We have a full team of Festival Coordinators to support the global project. I’d like to briefly introduce you to the team and share a bit about the plans for POP-UP 2024

The project is coordinated by Ayaka Mawarida-Lynch, Antonella Málaga, Saugat Singh with assistance from intern Seohyeon Kim.

Ayaka Mawarida-Lynch is based in USA but is originally from Japan. She supports mentor training and community gatherings as well as new POP-UP content creation. Ayaka is the parent of three marvelous children and recently completed her Masters Degree in social justice. human rights.

Antonella Málaga is based in Peru. She works with regional coordinators to build local networks of POP-UP mentors. She’s especially good at building relationships and sharing her love of POP-UP Festival with new people. Antonella is a psychologist working in private practice.

Saugat Singh is based in Nepal. He’s the most recent addition to our coordinator team. He’s an educator and works in youth leadership development. Saugat has a lot of training and experience in SEL and supports teachers and youth leaders to bring POP-UP Festivals to students globally.

Seohyeon Kim is based in Republic of Korea. She’s recently graduated from high school and will be attending Northwestern University. She’s been supporting our social media, administrative support and member of our youth leadership team.

In addition to the leaders above, we have a full team of volunteer mentors, translators and community coordinators. As you know POP-UP Festival is a free activity based program to bring emotional intelligence wellbeing skills to children. It runs on volunteers in local and is staffed by volunteer mentors. To see the complete volunteer team for 2024 go to: https://www.6seconds.org/popup/map/

POP-UP Festival is made possible by a network of enthusiastic parents, teachers and community leaders just like you who host thousands of micro-activations globally during the year and culminating in a big celebration for World Children's Day on November 20.

This year we are excited to announce that there will be another “Super POP-UP Celebration” at UNICEF House in NYC on November 20, 2024. We will showcase activities that focus on climate, emotional wellbeing and the future of childhood. Stay tuned for more news about the event.

We want to grow the POP-UP Festival this year! Will you help? If you have not yet participated in POP-UP Festivals please join us to experience the fun and transformation. To get access to all 70+ activities in the POP-UP Library follow the links below.

With gratitude-

Patty

Student POP-UP hosts

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Jan 18, 2024
Q1 Project Report Growing the Program!

By Patty Freedman | Creative Director

POP-UP Festival at UNICEF Home office 2024

What a wonderful year for POP-UP Festival! We have ambitious goals to increase our mentor program, host more regional community events and add more celebrations of SEL to our calendar! We’re very excited about a busy year planned for POP-UP Festival.

The Super POP-UP Festival held at UNICEF Headquarters in NYC on November 20 was a success! We had 24 volunteers from all over the USA plus many from NY join us to staff the event with a local school. We had over 100 people attend the event and so many parents commented this was an amazing experience to talk about emotions and SDGs in a playful way.

POP-UP Festival has become an official partners with #SELday. What is #SELday? SEL Day is a global, grassroots campaign for social-emotional learning to support children's academic recovery, mental health, and well-being. We are excited to raise awareness for SEL and engage our volunteers and mentors around the world. The event takes place on March 8, 2024. We invited all POP-UP participants to share their stories and images on social media on March 8 so we can make a positive impact for the movement.

We want to grow the POP-UP Festival this year! Will you help? We are looking to activate more mentors and volunteers. Did you know 98% of people who host POP-UP events want to do it again the following year? Beyond hosting another POP-UP, a few excited, dedicated volunteers want to teach and support others. They can become POP-UP mentors. We have a terrific program to train mentors and want to expand our regional footprint this year more widely.

Lots of plans and logistics to sort out for the coming year– we hope you continue to support the project as we grow!

If you have not yet participated in POP-UP Festivals please join us to experience the fun and transformation. To get access to all 70+ activities in the POP-UP Library follow the links below.

With gratitude-

Patty

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