December 2009
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Global Youth Summit - Continued
Summit has ended, but the memories and experiences stay and work continues through individual CAPs (Community Action Projects) all around the world by Changemakers staying in touch through various networks both online and offline. Delegates who are going to World Economic Forum in Davos have been chosen and some of the Changemakers are already representing us in United Nations Copenhagen Climate...
November 2009
5 posts
Global Youth Summit - Day Four and Five...
On the fourth day all the participants finally had a day in London city centre. Few of the Changemakers had the privilege to go to Number 10 and meet with British PM Gordon Brown personally. They were chosen before the summit (they literally picked names out of a hat because of the security reasons) so I didn’t really had a shot of actually meeting Mr. Brown but the fact itself that some...
Global Youth Summit - Day Three
Day Three of the Global Youth Summit here in London was focused around skills development. We had workshops about fundraising, media and press, time management, presentational skills, team building, social media and so on. Fundraising workshop really stood out because we were lectured by a people who had been working with World Economic Forum for a long time and raised millions in funding. One...
Global Youth Summit - Day Two
In the last day the Changemakers had to discuss the pressing issues in their respective regions later on to find the possible solutions. This early in the week the whole thing is in the “brainstorming” phase, but it looks promising that some of the proposed solutions can later on develop into Communicty Action Projects or so called CAPs. On that basically we worked the whole day -...
Global Youth Summit - Day One
The Global Changemakers have finally settled in their venue at London. Despite the severe jet lag that many participants is having the evening was bubbling with all the participants sporadically connecting, interacting and sharing their experiences and activism with others. We’re blessed in that sense that we have almost absolutely no language barrier since everybody here speaks such a good...
Global Youth Summit - Introduction
The Global Youth Summit is just a day away and I am packing my things for a flight to London tomorrow morning. The summit hasn’t even started yet but group of people that is going to be there is already proving that they can take matters into their own hands. The idea behind Global Changemakers is to create a large global network of future young activists and social entrepreneurs aged...