Shoot Nations is a joint partnership between Plan UK and Shoot Experience to encourage young people to express their thoughts on global issues through photography and drawings. Shoot Nations aims to use these art forms as tools of cross-cultural, language-free communication.
Shoot Nations is produced each year to coincide with the United Nations’ International Youth Day, annually commemorated on 12th August.
Plan presents Shoot Nations 2008 – Young People in a Changing Climate
This year the aim of Shoot Nations is to offer young people of all backgrounds from around the world the opportunity to communicate their views on the changing climate.
Through photography participants will portray the current effects of climate change on their lives, how they can act now to reduce these effects and ultimately, how their environment will change in the years to come and how they might adapt to this change.
We aim to make the online competition as accessible to as many young people as possible. For those without access to a camera, drawings can also be submitted by post. The competition is open for three months, from Thursday 1st May – Thursday 31st July 2008.
See Shoot Nations History for information on Shoot Nations 2006 and 2007.
International Youth Day
UN's International Youth Day - Tuesday 12th August 2008.
UN's International Youth Day gives the world an opportunity to recognise the potential of its youth, to celebrate their achievements, and plan for ways to assist young people and their communities to better engage youth in development. It presents a unique opportunity for all stakeholders to take action to ensure that young people are included in global, national and local affairs and decision-making.
