Summits

Steps the youth will complete during the summit:

  1. become familiar with the focus group, their needs and desires
  2. develop the blueprint of the projects including needed financial aspects and the need and availability of resources
  3. develop and accept the leadership and supervisory requirements of the projects
  4. establish the network for all parties (the participants, local population, NGO’s, Public Administration and the business world)
  5. At the end of the summit the participants will present their business case execution plan to the general invited audience, including drafts of potential partnerships and agreements.

 

Plans for future international summits:

Date Place All summits are focused around the United Nations Millennium Development Goals:
    The plans are ready; the fundraising successful; the sequence of actions is as listed.
TBD Kenya A visit to Kenya in august 2009 established a relationship with KEFEADO. A summit with 25 Kenyan students and 25 foreign participants is in the planning stages. The topic of the summit is “Equality”. The summit site will be Kisumu, Kenya. The start happens with school books ad uniforms for 37 schools in the Migori area.
TBD Liberia A student at the Peace Building Institute of the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA/USA is preparing the grounds for a summit in 2010. The topic: building a democracy. First step: provide school books and uniforms for 50 schools around the country.
TBD Kosovo The focus is on peace and democracy building and understanding. We anticipate youth from all the East European Countries as well as Belgium, USA, Netherlands, Turkey and South Asia to attend. A great collaboration with the NGO Integra, Pristine is being developed at this moment.
Future ideas/plans Invitations have been received to host programs in: Bulgaria, India, USA, Latin America, Finland, Russia and Morocco.

City summits

A special program has been developed for inner-city multicultural youth. A special year-long summit program will focus on the important things in society and together define the future of their own life as well as their society.
This is a pilot program to be executed with participants from ALL cultures currently living in the cities, to allow the youth to get to know each other, appreciate each other and to collaborate on a peaceful abundant future for all. The program is a collaborative effort with MYTIKAS. Please connect with us for further details.

Summit results

The participating youth and their leadership have reported back that participation at the summit has caused major impact in their life and the way they look at the world.  It has touched their hearts and minds and provided reasons to e.g.;

  • focus all their attention to obtain a great education,
  • to excel in their studies;
  • they gained great self-confidence;
  • became public speakers within their school and civic communities;
  • included other cultures in their daily life;
  • started fundraising efforts;
  • planned the next summit and
  • continued in the knowledge that the world is one and we all have a social responsibility in this world.

It has created friends around the world and the experience that every human being is struggling with similar challenges as they do.

Together they are strong and can move mountains.

That message was received loud and clear and voiced when they got back in their own environment, thus creating the proverbial oil drop reaching wider and wider circles of influence.

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