About

NYC Junior Ambassadors Alumni from Hyde Leadership Charter School (Bronx) and Icahn 4 Charter School (Bronx) at the 2017 celebration of World Children’s Day at the United Nations.

NYC Junior Ambassadors is an initiative focused on empowering 7th graders in all five boroughs of New York City to become actively engaged with the United Nations and its mission of addressing the most pressing challenges in the world. The program leverages New York City’s unique position as host city to the United Nations (UN) headquarters to enable youth to see themselves as global citizens.  The UN is an organization working across the globe towards the maintenance of international peace and security, the promotion of sustainable development and the protection of human rights.

NYC Junior Ambassadors uses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the primary lens through which educators and students can understand the work of the UN and related global issues.