Sagar Aryal

Sagar Aryal
Sagar Aryal photographed at Asia Pacific Graduate's Youth Forum in Green Economy
Native name	सागर अर्याल
Born	(1995-09-10) September 10, 1995 Dhading, Nepal
Residence	Kathmandu, Nepal
Nationality	Nepalese
Alma mater	Chelsea International Academy, St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)
Organization	Sano Sansar Initiative, Plant-for-the-Planet, United Nations Environment Programme - TUNZA
Home town	Dhading, Nepal

Sagar Aryal (Nepali: सागर अर्याल; born September 10, 1995) is a Nepalese youth, who is the founder and president of Sano Sansar Initiative. He was world president of Plant-for-the-Planet Global Board for 2012/13. Aryal is also the Youth Advisor / Mentor of United Nations Environment Programme - TUNZA since January 2012. Born in Dhading, Nepal, Aryal is pursuing his Liberal Arts education at St. Johns College in Annapolis MD. He was a community organizer in Kathmandu during his Elementary and Secondary School. He is a youth advocate on Environment, Education for Sustainable Development, Global Warming and Green Economy.^[1][2]

Activism

Sagar Aryal, founded Sano Sansar Initiative a platform for children and youth, in 2006 when he was 10 years old. With a motto of Education for All, his activism started by supporting children in rural part of Nepal with stationery materials through stationery support program and setting up libraries in the rural community schools of Nepal.^[3]

Aryal was the organizer of Little Doctors Program in 2009, a training for school children to discuss and know about the Primary Health issues their Prevention and Cure, where president of Nepal Dr. Ram Baran Yadav invited him and the children at his office for inauguration of the program.^[4]

Aryal has been involved in dozens of initiatives, organizations and networks to support in achieving Millennium Development Goals especially enhancing education, aware people about climate change, environment conservation and eradication of poverty through youth entrepreneurship. Similarly Aryal was one of the five founding members of Nepali Youth Task Force on RIO+20, to represent voice of mountains in RIO+20 and beyond.^[5][6][7]

Involvement / Positions Held

• Climate Strike, Coordinator ^[8]
• Green the Gene, Organization Director ^[9]
• Plant-for-the-Planet, President of Global Board from July 2012 to July 2013^[10]
• Sano Sansar Initiative, Founding President since February 2006 ^[11]
• United Nations Environment Programme - TUNZA, National Youth Advisor since January 2012 to February 2014 ^[3][12]
• United Nations Global Compact, Local Network Nepal Steering Committee Member from March 2011 to March 2012

Education

• Jyoti Academy, Until 2007 Kathmandu, Nepal
• Laboratory School, April 2007 to April 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Chelsea International Academy, June 2011 to June 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal ^[13]
• St. John's College, Annapolis, MD

Representations

• Young Agenda Conference, June 2010, Stavanger, Norway^[1][3]
• TUNZA International Children and Youth Conference, September 2011, Bandung, Indonesia^[1][3]
• 7th South Asia Youth Environment Network Regional Meet, January 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh^[1][3]
• TUNZA Asia Pacific Children and Youth Conference on Environment, February 2012, Ahmedabad, India^[1][3][14]
• Asia Pacific Graduates Youth Forum on Green Economy, September 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal^{[1][3][15][16]}

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