IX NATIONAL CONVENTION

Do it for your well-being, the slogan of the IX Convention, a project of the Youth Colombian Leaders Foundation, which for 8 consecutive years has brought together different volunteer leaders, scholars and alumni from different programs of the United States government in Colombia.

For this year in the middle of the global health contingency, the IX Convention was developed virtually and transmitted through the Youth Colombian Leaders Foundation social networks from October 29th to November 2nd. The event was attended by people from different cities not only in Colombia but also in other countries: Apartadó - Arbeláez - Barcelona (Spain) - Barrancabermeja - Barranquilla - Bogotá - Bucaramanga - Buenaventura - Cajicá - Cali - Carmen de Viboral - Cartagena - Choachí - Copacabana - Cota - Cúcuta - Davis (Australia) - Dosquebradas - Envigado - Falan - Galapa - Girardota - Guacarí - Guachucal - Ibagué - Jamundí - La Ceja La Plata - Lebanon - Lyon (France) - Malambo - Mallama - Manaure - Manizales - Medellín - Nuquí - Paipa - Palmira - Palmito - Pasto - Pereira - Popayán - Pradera Puerto Tejada - Pupiales - Queens (USA) - Quibdó - Repelón - Riohacha - Rionegro - Santa Marta - Santander de Quilichao - Sanctuary - Sincelejo - Soacha - Soledad - Teresina - Tibú - Tubará - Tunja - Tuta - Villavicencio - Zipaquirá.

For this virtual Convention, 380 participants were registered, most of them belonging to the different programs of the U.S. Government, such as: Youth Ambassador Program, Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI), Martin Luther King Program (MLK), College Horizons, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), Legislative Fellows, American Fellows, Citizen Fellows, Access Microscholarship program, Community College Initiative (CCI), Women to Women, Fullbright, Future Language Teacher, SUCCESS, Summer Work and Travel, Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA), We Americas. We had the fantastic collaboration of 39 speakers who developed during 5 days, 29 meetings between conferences and workshops. And as is characteristic of the Convention, the seal, of more than 30 volunteer organizers.

The IX Convention had the objective of providing participants with different tools in the context of the “Well-being”, firstly to discover and strengthen the potential to heal and mitigate the different factors of tension and impact in the framework of the world contingency and secondly to learn how to overcome and overcome the difficulties and turn them into opportunities.