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| Dear YES Family |
 As we continue to work in an ever more challenging environment in terms of economy,
health, safety and environment, our name "Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability"
reflects our spirit and dedication. People behind the YES Campaign, the ones who truly
believe in the power of the youth, keep this inspiration turned on like a beacon in the
middle of the ocean. This newsletter is the result of their actions, and is about who they
are and what they do. The women in the network specially inspire us as they carry
forward the agenda of the youth across the world, Therefore, through this issue we
want to emphasize the role of women. If we look in our structure we realize they are
leaders taking a key role in the success of YES. From Nigeria to Panama, women are
doing their job even in hard conditions. We can say they are silent heroes who continue
to work even in the most adverse conditions without being recognized in these many
years. Women’s leadership provides a new lens for looking at the most pending issues
of the world, a perspective that is deeply needed in this divided world. Power of women
is in their minds, hearts and beliefs. They bring up children and at the same time learn to deal with all sorts of issues, and so
there is flexibility and incredible tenacity in what they decide to do. They have the strength to change their lives as well as their
communities for a better world. Being a woman I can say we are led by our hearts.
Ursula Carascal
YES Inc |
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| Planning meeting for Rework the World – 5th Global Youth Employment Summit (YES 2010) in India |
 A planning meeting for Rework the World was held in Delhi on Mar. 9, 2009 for organizing a bigger regional India meeting in November 2009. Rework the World is a global initiative to help scale promising sustainable initiatives to create green employment opportunities worldwide. This initiative will engage entrepreneurs, young leaders, investors, business managers and political decision-makers all over the world in a process that culminates in the YES 2010.
The objective of Rework the World meeting is to initiate the partnerships and processes that can create employment and sustainable livelihoods by helping scale, replicate or transform promising initiatives and business models. The planning meeting therefore resulted in the engagement of the YES leaders with a diverse group of stakeholders who delved upon the issue of accelerating the process of employment creation. About 30 high-level participants attended from the Indian government, business, NGOs, youth groups and practitioners.
The participants had a general agreement that it is time to innovate with “what has worked” and find ways to replicate effective practices. Around 40 successful initiatives were identified by YES Network Leaders under the themes of – Waste Management, Promoting youth led Enterprises and Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry. In preparation for the November meeting the 8 YES State level Networks existing in India will work with their members and the participants of this meeting to identify one or two initiatives that they would like to replicate in their States and work together to design the projects and raise seed funding locally.
For more information write to PK Joseph - pk@yesweb.org
Pilot Site on YES
All YES leaders are invited to enjoy and test http://yesnetworks.ning.com an online place where you can find useful information about the next YES Summit to be held in Sweden in 2010 as well as concepts related with the “green jobs”. |
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| Youth Service Networks from YES Pakistan won the Regional Enterprise Challenge Competition |
It is the first time that one of the Youth Service Networks from YES Pakistan participated at international level and won a competition! It is a result of a hard work that started last year when British Council Pakistan joined YES Pakistan to launch the first ever youth social entrepreneurship competition in the technical and vocational institutions of its country. Around 300 technical and educational organizations were reached out in the first phase. In the second one principal of 27 institutions were selected to be part of the capacity building workshops for understanding the concept and rolling out the youth social entrepreneurship/service program in their organizations.
Finally students of 5 educational institutions were chosen and equipped with knowledge and skills of designing and implementing social change projects to enjoy a national level enterprise challenge that gave the winner an amount of US$ 3000 for launching its social change project in its community. The remaining 4 teams received US$900 for starting their projects. The winner of the competition had the opportunity to participate in the Regional Enterprise Challenge Competition in UK organized by British Council and Make Your Mark, where It won with its project on an integrated Waste Management System to collect organic household waste from around the city and to convert it into gas, organic fertilizer/bio compost and electricity. For more information write to Ali Raza Khan, YES Pakistan Leader at connectwithali@yahoo.com and to know more about this network in http://www.pnys.com/
Greetings from Nepal! Young Social Entrepreneurs and Energy together
The good news comes from YES Nepal. It has been chosen as one of the finalist for Nepal Young Social Entrepreneurs Competition 2009. Last March It was in the list of 10 finalists and 3-5 of them will be given financial support on the basis of entrepreneurship model and project proposal. The details about the competition can be found in www.changefusion.org/Nepal.
The Energy and Resource India (TERI) has shown keen interest to work with Nepal in the expansion of their Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) Campaign. YES Nepal is in the process of developing a joint proposal for Nepal chapter which will be proposed to GTZ. Both of these projects are green projects and have the capacity to create lots of green jobs. For more information about these initiatives, write to Bhuwan, YES Nepal Leader, at bhuwan@yesweb.org
Mexico: Bringing Entrepreneurship everywhere |
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To do entrepreneurship is a choice:
the Challenge is to educate
Samuel Gonzalez, Fundacion E President |
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 Talking about entrepreneurship Fundacion E, YES Mexico host agency needs special mention, which has been an integral part of the YES Campaign, and has been setting bench marks for good practices in the promotion of young entrepreneurs in Latin America since 1999. Its capacity building, organizing and bringing together diverse stakeholders, has been inspiring many networks while organization of the II World Summit on Youth Employment in Veracruz, Mexico in 2004, will always be remembered with admiration. The summit had a wide participation with an attendance of 6000 participants from 105 countries.
Fundacion E agenda includes working closely with the National Program of Entrepreneurship. Their activities consist of initiatives like the Caravan Itinerant of Entrepreneurship, which promotes entrepreneurship spirit amongst youth at diverse places in Mexico through stands, seminaries, exhibitions, among others. Currently Fundacion E is working towards organization of the 5th Global YES Summit, to be held in Sweden in June 2010, and leading the preparatory process with the YES Networks in Latin America. Since 2007 Fundacion E is the YES Hub Office in this region. Sharing with you thoughts of Samuel Gonzalez, Fundacion E President, about being an entrepreneur. Think about this ….
“How many times in a coffee restaurant do we fix the world?, How many of us complain about the problems and debate on situations that seem inappropriate and we propose solutions, how many times we... take action and make proposals on for what afflicts us" ...
“Educating to be an entrepreneur may be an issue of endless debate, perhaps the first step is breaking the paradigm and stop debating " whether entrepreneurs are born or made, that if the economic crisis slows economic growth, that if wealth has negative connotations”.
“To do entrepreneurship is an adventure, uncertainty is one of the biggest challenges; to educate to do entrepreneurship means to overcome fears, to convert: challenges into opportunities, problems in incomes, solutions in quality of life.”
“Making entrepreneurship is a lifestyle, not a choice, to educate to do entrepreneurship means create vision, commitment, responsibility .”
Finally, to educate to do entrepreneurship is a task and commitment of everyone, it is a prevailing necessity, an opportunity to travel on the life and make a difference in here and now”.
Do you want more information on Fundacion E? Write to Samuel Gonzalez at samuel@fundacione.org |
YES Rwanda
Job Desk & Web Site Launched
 Last 23rd April, YES Rwanda launched the Youth Employment Systems Job Desk and website which will aim at enabling Rwandan Youth to find decent jobs, as well as enabling employers to access quality labour force at a lower cost. Henry Clarke Kisembo presented the work of YES Rwanda, and the Honorable Minister of Youth of Rwanda motivated the participating youth and also promised his support to them.
The question of youth unemployment has become a time bomb that needs urgent attention and innovative measures
According to its Ministry of Labour, about 400,000 jobs need to be created each year in the job market in Rwanda More often the first jobs seekers are youth and they constitute 1/3 of the national population of the country. As Henry said “Creation of productive employment is a priority not only in Rwanda but also for the Partner EAC States in terms of adopting favourable policies and strategies”. For him ensuring quality jobs means safeguarding the basic rights and interest of employer and workers and also the promotion of the principles of enterprise development and respect for relevant international labour standards.
Henry is optimistic that their projects will address the youth issues of unemployment as well as its other detrimental impacts such as poverty, marginalization and psychological impacts. As we know that Rwanda like all other African countries is facing critical economic crises. Henry said “For a society like Rwanda that has experienced historical conflict, it is crucial that lack of employment for youth and the desperation born out of this are perceived as key security issues and detrimental to national development objectives”. For more information about these initiatives write to Henry at hkisembo@gmail.com |
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| WOMEN BEHIND the YES Campaign |
The International Women Day |
In the whole world from day to day they break many barriers, the fear, the frustration, the powerlessness ... In the more distant mountains or in the hostile desert a woman faces her own fears to make a revolution in her own life and community. It is not a simple domestic revolution. It is a dance that leads the struggle for change; millions of them are living testimony to the tenacity and sacrifice that human being can do to say NO to injustice and YES to Dignity. YES fills us with energy to face the obvious marginalization and gender discrimination which otherwise does not allow millions of women, especially girls and indigenous to exercise their rights, and to be really free to be who they wish to be.
We don’t need to read a newspaper or a history book to find a heroin, you can see her in your sister, cousin, daughter, wife or friend, that every day do incredible actions what is synonymous of courage. After years of struggle women won a series of rights, but sadly many of them are not respected. If you have a woman next to you consider grateful: for many women the birth is a miracle, many of them will not emerge just because they are women.
It is the deep rooted cultural traditions in developing countries that create the most stubborn obstacle to the essential steps towards women's equality. The belief that girls should work in the home and in the fields rather than go to school, and the presumption that a woman acquires no right to property on marriage are deeply entrenched in many societies. While YES is always keen to respect cultural traditions of the countries in its programs, but will never compromise on issues of gender equality.
“I call upon all young women in the world to cooperate, show solidarity and exchange experiences, information and defend their rights”
The efforts by the women’s movement to achieve equality have facilitated the participation of more number of women in the society to take the lead in global processes. In the YES Campaign the women have an important role as leaders in the global network of 55 countries. They are advocates for youth participation in the society, increasing their access to jobs to bring them out of poverty and also work towards assertion of their rights at their workplace. When a young women begins to work, sexual harassment, excessive working hours, gender violence, payment of wages below the standard, the feminization of the types of work are some of the many obstacles to have to overcome
In the midst of this, our society gives little value to effort and dedication that the women give at home. Today women, have multiple roles as workers, students, mothers, wives, and daughters, caregivers, which leaves little time for themselves, critical for their physical and spiritual development. This newsletter is therefore dedicated to them, the fighters, specially the women behind this campaign, who have now decided to work more closely on the issues of environmental sustainability.
Dhihkra Abdulrazzaq Hasan
YES Iraq Leader wworking in middle of the violence
Iraq is a country famous for its history and archeology. It has been on the world news lately due to its conflicts, invasions and wars. This beautiful country has been suffering violence for many years. The people of Iraq have forgotten the meaning of PEACE. In these conditions workplaces are not safe and so people do not enjoy mental and physical health. Women are therefore most affected of living in unstable communities.
“Violence against women and girls makes its hideous imprint on every continent, country and culture"
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General Violence against women and gender-based violence are not new phenomena to the women of Iraq. However, in recent years, the forms and prevalence of violence against women and gender-based violence have intensified, resulting in increasing vulnerability and risk for Iraqi women. Continued insecurity and instability, exacerbated by a growing humanitarian crisis, has left many Iraqi women with great uncertainty about their future.
They do not always have a "choice" about their fate. Much of the time "women’s reality" is guided and influenced by political, social, and economic powers and will. And although the current situation does not bode well for many women in Iraq, we acknowledge that Iraqi women have, and will continue to demonstrate and embody agency, solidarity, resistance, and survival.
Dhihkra Abdulrazzaq Hasan YES Iraq Leader shares her thoughts about being woman and the work done by YES Iraq on the gender issue.
Her Achievement
I am so proud that I have made a balance between all the roles that I play - as a chairman of a women organization contributing to development p of a woman's society, a candidate for parliament for the next session, YES Iraq leader and my responsibility as a wife and mother of three children. I have succeeded in achieving that, in spite of all the challenges I faced in my work. |
On the 8th of March the World not just celebrated this Day but also looked back at decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development of women on all continents. Women though are divided by boundaries and ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, but finally all emerged as Women.
Currently young women are enjoying diverse rights, thanks to stories of ordinary women who have personally struggled and suffered in the centuries, striving to participate in society on an equal footing with men.During the French revolution, Parisian women called for "liberty,equality, fraternity" to demand women's suffrage. They lobbied for politician rights and labour rights to allow women to work with dignity. Who can forget the tragic Triangle Fire in 25 March in New York City when more than 140 working girls died?
Even after the international conventions and proclamations of the Charter of the United Nations signed in San Francisco (1945,) the proclaimed gender equality as a fundamental human right and the national legal support to women rights, they continue in a recurrent state of pain and sorrow.
Every day women are victims of the sex market, rapes and sexual violence. Many young women living in the countries where YES exists have to confront this in times of poverty, conflict and insecurity.
According to Amnesty International, in Sierra Leone “ it is estimated that one in every three women and girls were raped, or have suffered some form of sexual violence, during the armed conflict that raged from 1991 to 2002.” Closer to our times, Nayarit in Mexico during 2004, registered a female homicide rate of 4.5 per hundred thousand women.
The Annual Global Employment Trends for Women Report released on 6 March at the International Labor Organization (ILO- Geneva), says “the global economic crisis and deepening recession will hurt women more as the number of unemployed women is expected to rise to 22 million this year (2009)”. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia remarked in a statement issued for the International Women´s Day --
Gender inequality in the world of work has long been with us - but it is likely that it will be exacerbated by the crisis.
Through years not just civil sector, but also private and the government sectors are recognizing women’s role inthe environment, peace, economy, culture, health and other important issues. YES Campaign doesn’t stay on the sidelines; in 2002 when it was launched one of the Es (core parameters for Action) was the E of “Equal Opportunities for young women”. From that time many network countries like Honduras, Peru, Iraq, Nigeria have been working to reduce the gap of inequality of women labor participation in the workplace as well in the compliance of their rights in the access, employability, education and HIV/AIDS.
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The contribution of YES Iraq
The organization's staff made many seminars and workshops to develop the youth capacity, especially women, to educate and raise awareness among women and encourage them to participate in the elections.
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 Obstacles of being Woman
They are the same ones as faced by the women in the Third World, but in addition also being women in Iraq, we are suffering much more due to the unfortunate circumstances that the country is passing through. Violence and terror which is becoming a part of our lives is depriving the women from all needs and rights . |
The Challenge
The biggest challenge was my own success that I achieved in the implementation of civil and political activities, in spite of the violence and terrorism. It was because of my work as a chairman of a women organization for the women empowerment and freedom, made me a target for terrorists. |
A message for the youth
call upon all young women in the world to cooperate, show solidarity and exchange experiences, information and defend their rights in accordance with the charters and covenants, such as the International Convention against all forms of violence against women and the defence treaty and non-discrimination and gender equality. |
| For more information about YES Iraq write to Dhikra@yesweb.org |
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Luz Maria Puente*
An entrepreneur and successful woman involved with the YES Campaign
Let us all remember her with a candle in a glass. She wanted to show us the light in middle of the darkness. It was the YES Leaders Workshop in Latin America held in Panama last 2008 the place where YES family had the chance to meet Luz Ma for the first time. Using an innovate framework called “Managing from Clarify” (Wiley 2001) she held interviews with
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| YES Leaders and their stakeholders to develop a casual map for each network that contributed to build a Latin American regional map that was showed in Panama. After a deeper understanding of how the map works YES leaders were able to see how the network functions and their stakeholders interact. Now after some time of such kind experience we meet her again but to learn more how she is a woman: an entrepreneur. Luz Maria speaks... |
Being a wife, an entrepreneur and professional
“When I was younger, I thought each of these roles was defined separately, and I tried to play each one in its own context. Now I live them as an integral part of who I am. I am always a woman, and I need to remember this, because sometimes I used to have some attitudes that were more masculine. |
| Now I need to remember to bring the feminine touch to what I do, the care, the beauty, etc.; I am always married, this brings a beautiful energy into everything I do because his love is always with me; I am an entrepreneur all the time, not only when I am running the business or leading a project – this spirit shows up even when I am cooking – and finally I am a professional not because of all the degrees I hold but because of the way I do my work, the way I give of myself. |
The biggest challenge
“Even though I had experienced some discrimination, as a woman, the main barrier was in my own head. If some have ever treated me as an inferior, it is because I have let them. I have learnt that if the image I have of myself is strong, that is what people see and they will treat me accordingly”. |
The Success
“What is most interesting is how the concept of being successful has been evolving during the last years in my professional life. In the beginning, success was reaching certain positions in the organization, and making money. I am glad I had the chance to experience that kind of success in the corporate world and in my own organization, but now success is if I have a balanced life, where I am involved in projects that are meaningful and that have an impact in the world, combined with having time to myself (and my spiritual life), my husband, my friends and my family and enjoy life!”
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Pamela Braide: A Nigerian leader leading the capacity building of women in her community
This YES Leader from Nigeria is an example how she as a woman can contribute to the changed life of many women striving for equal representation at all levels in the society. YES Nigeria is involved in policy advocacy, entrepreneurship or employability. Some of her thoughts.
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Being woman in Nigeria
“I was fortunate to have women who balanced many roles in my family, and so I’ve never seen multiple roles as something extraordinary. Nigerian women have always balanced many roles without really receiving the credit they deserve for keeping this country afloat.People are still not used to women taking charge. I fill leadership roles in most of my areas of interest. Women in leadership here have to deal with cultural notions of what roles women should play and prove themselves as capable, constantly. This is a country where less than 20% of the women occupy elected positions. You can imagine the impact this has on policies, strategies and budgets on issues that affect women”. |
Best Success
“Being able to inspire young women and young people to take charge of their lives and pursue their own goals”. |
The Challenge
“I don’t see any challenge as the biggest. Life itself is a challenge. The point is to have the courage to assess them as they arise and do what is necessary to keep moving and keep yourself as happy with your decisions as possible”. |
A heart speaking to women
“Women rights are extremely important. You are very important You are not just a sister, a daughter, a girlfriend or an aunty: You are a person with likes, dislikes, talents, dreams and aspirations. You have every right to be treated with respect and honour by all human beings. You should also do the same for other human beings. As the popular saying goes... women’s rights are human rights”. |
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A network promoting women leadership
YES Nigeria has been involved with the KUDRA Leadership Programme for young women in 5 Nigerian Universities run by KIND, its host NGO. Its contribution was the entrepreneurship component in the leadership curriculum to provide tools for the financial empowerment of the young women. The programme is in its 3rd year and has been delivered to 1,250 young women each year. YES Nigeria is currently assisting in curriculum review of the programme to make the entrepreneurship component more interactive |
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| Planning meeting for Rework the World – 5th Global Youth Employment Summit (YES 2010) in India |
 Being a woman I encounter lots of difficulties- There are different perspectives coming from tradition Somali society, which consider women 50% less with respect to men. Up till now I have worked sincerely and succeeded in demonstrating and motivating the other women to confront the challenges.
Faiza Jama
Located in the Horn of Africa with the Gulf of Aden to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east, Somalia has the longest coastline in the African Continent and it is characterized by plains and highlands. This is where the tropical forests and other natural ecosystems have been impacted by diverse kind of conflicts, that …. a woman emerges.. She is Faiza Jama, the YES Leader of Somalia. She shared with us her thoughts on YES Campaign and something about her private life to our readers.
Working with YES: going back to 2002...
“I was a member of the Somali delegation who took part in the first YES Global Summit held in Egypt September 2002. The Somali delegation was composed of three members from different parts of Somalia and among our delegation I was selected as a country coordinator. From that day I'm fully committed and have the pleasure to work with YES. I'm even proud to be part of such an important organization which has a very bright future. I really believe the vision and mission of YES can contribute in the transformation of my country in a positive way, as it has always respected and nurtured the opinion of the majority of the youth of Somalia.
The YES support
Increasingly we are getting more support from YES HQ, regional coordinator as well as country leaders who are reaching out to our activities. The support that we get in terms of capacity building for advocacy, fundraising, organizing workshops and forums and expositions. YES has given us a platform for development of Institutional Capacity Building, Youth Policy Development, Employment and Skill upgrading etc.
The Challenges
It is not so easy to achieve such a target for the youth of country devastated by civil war and where majority of youth are influenced by warlords, drug dealers, sea pirates, mass emigrations, etc. Nevertheless we are determined to reach our target and plan in order to follow the same path as other youth of the world. Mogadishu is still the most dangerous area in all Somalia, so we can't send people from Puntland or Somaliland. Our activity is much reduced in that area because of continuous conflict. I am planning to visit the conflict ridden areas to asses how the things are going, although security is still a major concern but there are some possibilities to do something even in conflict area where the people are suffering the most.
Going ahead
In the starting period there were many difficulties such as no funding, conflicts and especially as the country leader was a woman We approached the business community for fund and after the youth completed the training, we gave them priority for recruiting the trained youth. Some funding came from the government and UN. The business community, most of the time employed the top 10. The new youth employment recruited in different enterprises voluntarily contributing 5% of their initial salary. Starting from 2007 we became a key partner of Swedish Diakonia which gave us office running costs and salary of the staff. Now we are implementing the project of Strengthening the Capacity of adolescent and youth. The fund for this project comes from Diakonia which for the last three years has assisted us in promoting the fulfilment of different projects |
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| Commitment of life and fight in Dominican Republic |
 Very early in the morning a woman wakes up to do what a mother does. She has to cook and prepare breakfast to her family. The phone rings, she has to take notes of a potential business. Being in the ceramic business it is not easy. You have to have the competence and creativity for new designs. Berkis, our protagonist, started her entrepreneurship 7 years ago to meet her economical necessities. She goes back to her past and remembers...”Within days of starting our project we received our first purchase order, delivered on scheduled time and most importantly, the client was satisfied with the product and service offered”. That client is a part of a hotel network and now Berkis offers her product in almost all their hotels in the country. Thanks to this she and her fiancé were able to celebrate their marriage and acquire some furniture for their new home.
Her persistence and active participation allowed to her to be the woman and leader we all know. Just some months after starting her business she applied to an international contest of entrepreneurs organized by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) and MasterCard and won! Then she participated in 2004 in the IDB Annual meeting of Governors Assembly in Peru where she had the chance to met Dacil Acevedo, former YES Global Leader Coordinator and since then she is the YES Leader of Dominican Republic. Now her business called NEDEMP is in an expansion time and works making decorative and utilitarian pieces for the tourism sector.
Women should monitor the process of social transformation that occurs in each part of the world and to be motivated to participate by making contributions on an equal footing.Berkis Polanco
Berkis is very honest when she speaks about the reality of women in her country. For her, “we still live in a society where women many times are identified as synonymous of weakness, failure and slavery, and sadly many women are trapped in this situation which has been difficult to break”. As we see for Berkis, YES has been able to break this notion and brought back faith in her beliefs and convictions. Dominican Republic is not an exception to a society of limitations, exclusions and abuse to women. How does Berkis deal with this? “In my experience of taking on these roles I have learnt that we should put a spark of love and art in order to showcase all the different outfits that life allows us”, she said.
In Berkis´s words “ The Gender rights – Right to Equity is there, we have to make the effort to recognize and believe in it with conviction taking into account the cultural pattern of each country. For me, young women can contribute a lot to make this possible and to build a better future for women with fewer barriers and more equity”.
Interested to speak with Berkis?
Write to her mail berkis@yesweb.org
IMPORTANT WOMEN RELATED WITH THE YES CAMPAIGN
As we know many leaders around the world have supported YES Campaign... and many of them are women! They are inspirational people for the youth and dreamers... Here are their words, their messages we wanted to share with you...
HE Mrs. Marianna Vardinoyannis Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO
“I met many intelligent and active young people in Baku during the Conference of the YES Azerbaijan, and I felt very proud of the young generation of this country. So my message to them... keep going and always says YES to peace, solidarity and education! Say YES to your own visions and dreams and they will definitely come true.....”
HE Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt
“Since it was launched in Alexandria in 2002, YES has provided young people with choices to speak their minds enrich their perspectives and shape their own future”.
HE Queen Noor of Jordan
“Your deliberations will continue to build on the impetus already gathered in this decade long campaign. By sharing experiences, deliberating case studies and identifying best practices to be replicated country to country, we will, God willing, be giving our young people the tools to develop their full potential and take rightful ownership of a sustainable, positive future”. |
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| Contribution |
| Producer and Editor : Ursula Carrascal |
| Proofreading : Deepika Gupta |
Contributors : PK Joseph, Samuel Gonzalez, Pamela
Braide, Faiza Jama, Berkis Polanco, Ali Raza, Henry Clarke, Dhihkra Abdulrazzaq, Luz Maria Puente, Bhuwan, Rovshan Muradov |
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| Subject related information for the newsletter is based on the data reported by UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, Inter American Development Bank, Wikipedia, ILO, Amnesty International, YES, PAHEF, among others. The information shared by our YES Leaders is under their full responsibility. |
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Ismail Serageldin,
Director General, Library of Alexandria, Chairman of the Board of Directors, YES Inc |
Poonam Ahluwalia,
President, YES Inc. |
Akhtar Badshah,
Sr. Director Community Affairs, Microsoft Corp |
Cynthia Brandt,
Treasurer,President, Brandt Associates |
Van Jones,
Founder, Green for All and Special Advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. |
Scott Leland,
Executive Director Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, HKS |
Debra Deanne Olson,
CEO Green Century Solutions, LLC |
Gunter Pauli,
Founder and Director, Zero Emissions Research Initiative |
Gunter Pauli,
Founder and Director, Zero Emissions Research Initiative |
Mahesh Sharma,
President Cambridge College (2003-2007) |
Janet Whitla,
President Emeritus Education Development Center Inc. |
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