10 jovenes summit presentation

The Second World Summit For Youth Volunteering

Who? What? Where? When?

About 900 youth volunteers from all over the world.

Coming together to share experiences and mainly focusing on youth volunteering and the different resources available to volunteers.

Uninorte University in Barranquilla, Colombia

November 3-5, 2011

Introduction Sessions: -Plenaries

-Breakout Panels -Working Groups -Receptions

Inspirational Quotes “People are not going to give you opportunities, you are going to have to look for them.”

-Michael Teoh, Malaysia “It is a matter of pure chance that they were born in poverty and we were not.”

-Hugh Evans, Australia “Youth are the future, but they are also the present, and that is why their leadership is essential.” -Steve Vetter, CEO POA

Panels In the afternoon, youth were divided into different panels of their choice that covered different topics.

Examples: Youth Entrepreneurship and Volunteering, Promoting Youth Volunteerism, Ending World Extreme Poverty, and The Connection Between Technology and Youth Volunteering.

Working Groups The working groups allowed those in the groups to interact and discuss the days topics. It also allowed the groups to work towards creating future commitments.

RED2021 is a forward-looking 10-year network that launched at the Summit creating connections between and globally mapping the personal and organizational commitments of youth volunteers and their organizations and employers. red2021.org

Commitments Some Commitments made at the Summit are: -To implement one strategy that they have learned at the Summit back in their community.

-To encourage at least 10 communities to make provisions for persons with disabilities.

-To be a mentor, specifically to promote volunteering among 8-12 year-olds.

In Conclusion...

The focus of the Summit was to promote youth volunteering, exchange ideas, and highlight the various resources available to youth.

You Make It Happen!