Requirements:










1.     Being a proactive deaf youth age 18-36.
2.     Medical/Physical certificate.
3.     Being involved as a member of the Association or Federation in your country.
4.     A brief 300-word essay explaining your interest in participating in this Camp.
5.     Having a profile in a global social network (facebook, twitter, myspace, etc.).
6.     US$350.00 registration fee.
7.     Limited share.

Topics of the Camp:









1.    Global warming.
2.    Climatic change and vulnerability.
3.    Neutral carbon.
4.    Protected areas and climatic change.
5.    The right to a safe environment and to a clean, sustainable development.
6.    Strategies of communication and planning of concrete actions globally.
7.    Ensemble of an International commission for follow-up.

Purpose of the Camp:







To promote room for discussion among the deaf population worldwide to take actions as youth in the subjects of climatic change and globalization.

To accomplish this, our goals are:

1.    To establish an international discussion forum about the topics related to global warming, climatic change and globalization.

2.    To create an environment and climated change commission as part of the SRMCACWFD.

3.    To develop a follow-up plan in topics of environment and climate change in the participating countries.

We are living hard times. This is the era in the history of humankind with the most unstable weather and the most recurring, unprecedented natural disasters in the tropical regions of the world. It is time to unite in one hand to take the challenge in facing the vulnerability of our world, and to determine the common responsability that we share in the deaf communities of our contries.

The deaf youth worldwide must take a true commitment in leadership to sensitize and promote a sense of shared, sustainable responsability for our world, as well as concrete action in every country before the challenges brought by climatic change. We invite you to our First International Camp at Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica. This camp will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The First International Deaf Youth Camp: United Against   Climatic Change - Chirripó 2013, will be held at Chirripó National Park, which is part of the Friendship Biosphere Reserve and one of the most diverse places with 400 species of birds, 266 species of amphibians and 60% of both vertebrate and invertebrate species in all Costa Rica.

The Camp site is located at the base of the plateaus, because this is a region affected by climatic change in our country. This is a perfect place to negotiate a strategic line in the agenda between the Regional Secretariat for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Worl Deaf Federation’s (SRMCACWFD) and the Inter-Government Forum for Climatic Change - SINAC.