Operation Man-days on Kloden theater

October 31, 2024

On NPD Day, students work to raise money for this year's NPD project, which every year goes to young people in countries that need extra help. We have a visit from Indya, Karoline and Paulina from Videregående skole.

Text: Indya Refsdal

This year's NPD campaign goes to Guatemala, and to provide food security, identity and climate justice. Indya, Paulina and Karoline are working on creating content for social media on this day.

Indya is a student at Edvard Munch upper secondary school studying interior design, exposure and profiling. She has previously participated in ODE Ung's performance FESTEN as a background dancer, and is now ready to get back to the theater again! Social media is nothing new to her as she now works at "Huset på haugen" as some responsible.

Karoline is in her first year at Akademiet upper secondary school in Bislett. She has experience in media and communication from secondary school, and enjoys creating content for TikTok in particular. She will be creating content and is looking forward to it. She and Paulina have just started playing football and are having a great time.

Paulina is in her first year of specialising in studies at Akademiet Upper Secondary School in Bislett. She is interested in dance, both watching and dancing herself. At Kloden She will be creating content for the theater, and she is looking forward to it! She and Karoline have just started playing soccer and are really enjoying it.

83 percent of indigenous people in Guatemala struggle with poverty

Guatemala is one of the countries hardest hit by natural disasters in the world. Prolonged droughts, heavy rainfall and floods are a regular occurrence in the country. 

Agriculture is the country's main source of income, so the fact that their land is no longer secure has a huge impact on the population! Right now, 7,000 million of the world's population are struggling with hunger, and farmers are among those most affected. 83% of the indigenous people in Guatemala struggle with poverty and half of all children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition. 

Food production is strongly linked to Guatemala's identity, history and agricultural knowledge. Without it, the population will no longer have agricultural knowledge to pass on for generations. 

What will young farmers do if their identity, history and food security disappear?