Education United States Project #43375

BOOST MENTAL HEALTH FOR 3MIL KIDS IN 180 COUNTRIES

by Six Seconds

Project Report | Jan 17, 2025
POP-UP Festival Celebrations around the world

By Patty Freedman | Global VP Social Impact

Youth Leaders at UNICEF House

Jan 16, 2024 BOOST MENTAL HEALTH FOR 3MIL KIDS IN 180 COUNTRIES

Hi Friends-

We hit our goal in 2024 to increase our POP-UP Festival Celebrations with UNICEF Offices-- this year we collaborated with UNICEF Italy, UNICEF India and UNICEF Headquarters in NYC. Special thanks to the volunteer teams in those countries for creating wonderful experiences for children and families.

Our 2024 global campaign for POP-UP featured “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.

We had participants from nine countries– USA, Nepal, Japan, China, Peru, Barbados, Ukraine, Italy, and India send in their drawings . The POP-UP Festival team gathered all of them in a video and featured the work at the big POP-UP UNICEF event held at UNICEF headquarters New York on November 20, to celebrate World Children’s day.

At that event we had over 200 UN employees and their families attend to learn more about children’s rights and emotional wellbeing. The activities were hosted by students from Nord Anglia School and they were particularly excited to share their knowledge of SDGs.

This spring, POP-UP Festival will be featured on March 3 at #SELDay. POP-UP Festivals help teachers and parents bring #SELmoments to their students and family.

Sharing stories of what effective SEL looks like and the positive impact of SEL in communities around the world is a central component of SELday. These compelling, personal stories may be shared on social media, by email, via broadcast media, during in-person and online events, and more.

Recent research has shown that what influences the general public most powerfully to support SEL are personal stories about experiences with SEL shared by young people, educators/youth development professionals, and family members.

We hope you join us to spread awareness for SEL globally and are excited to see your #SELmoment on social media!

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

Climate in Your Hand activity

Getting ready for POP-UP Festival

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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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