GCE students in Turkmenistan joined the world community to celebrate Global Youth Service Day (GYSD). The idea of Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is mostly concentrated on making active youth of any country to perform community useful and benefiting projects applying all their knowledge and fulfilling community’s urgent needs. One of the most active participants of this event were the semifinalsts of TeachAgeGirls Project in Turkmenistan. Being true leaders of their communities Tech Age Girls-Turkmenistan project semifinalists have a great potential to apply their knowledge of Informational Technologies (IT) during the GYSD in Turkmenistan organizing Environmental Issues Discussion.
In an effort to promote understanding of IT methods among community people TAG semifinalists conducted series of trainings on IT for groups of interested community public. They gathered a group of youth or other community people interested in ecological issues in the regions. Comprehending all the effectiveness of depicting one or another important issue in one amazing picture or a photograph, TAG semifinalists put especial attention to the picture editing program use trainings. After the group gets skills necessary to work in this kind of software, group leaders – TAG project participants encouraged everyone to think on one or another environmental issue and draw a picture/make a photo collage using the photo editing software trying to make it in a way of strong and obvious acuteness of the issue. Group leaders were free to make an online consultation/discussion of the pieces that were made; choose the best one; discuss the issue itself; think of the ways that the issue could be solved or eased; discuss a follow-up activity. During the discussion group talked about the reasons of the evidence and what could be done in order to solve the problem. They created colorful posters and flyers calling the public resting in the park to keep the place clean; gathered up for a clean-up in the park. The consultation took a place offline but the results of it should be posted either on the Ecological forum on www.gcetm.net/forum or on the blog spaces that the TAG semifinalists would access to promoting this way public discussion of the issue.
Now I'm providing you with our GYSD activities, which were held in different regions of Turkmenistan.
Ashgabat:
Taking a leading role in their communities, 9 semifinalists of the Tech Age Girls (TAG) Project in will lead several presentations on GYSD and Human Ecology according to the following schedule:
Who: Jemal Saryyeva
When: April 6-12
Where: Yashlyk town
What: Jemal will teach 40 young people Internet skills and encourage those to search the Internet for information regarding addiction to alcohol, drugs, and smoking. Presentation the harm to health caused by the addiction and the ways of preventing it will be followed.

Who: Leyli Mametyazova
When: April 11-18
Where: Ashgabat
What: Leyli will lead a series of presentations and educate 30 young people on AIDS. Leyli will make an “ANTI-AIDS” collage depicting all the horrors of the issue and encourage youth to follow on her example and educate other young people on AIDS problem.
Who: Maral Rahimova
When: April 9-17
Where: Ashgabat
What: Presentation about tuberculosis and the ways of preventing it. During this several days long presentation young people will learn ways of prophylaxis of the disease. A report and posters will be made to make community public be aware of the prophylaxis of the disease and the youth prophylaxis.