AFRICAN YOUTHS(TANZANIAN INCLUSIVE) ARE TALKING

IBRAHIM FORUM 2012

On Sunday 11th November, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation will be hosting the 2012 Ibrahim Forum with the topic focusing on Youth in Africa. Restless Development is going to be taking a group of young people to actively participate in the Forum, ensuring that their realities feed into this high-level discussion forum.

MEET THE DELEGATION

YOUTH DELEGATES         

Very active student who is working on livelihoods issues in Tanzania. Adam has lots of great ideas about the role that entrepreneurship has to play in addressing youth unemployment in his country, and the need for more vocational training at an early age. AIESEC volunteer, and has set up a small tshirts company to fund his education.

Adam Abraham

21, Tanzania

Working with the livelihoods team in East Africa to develop an online platform which will connect unemployed youth with potential future employers and job openings aimed at young people. Lots of grassroots experience and plenty of stories to tell!

Angel Mwaipopo

24, Tanzania

Disability rights campaigner from Tunisia who has experienced strong discrimination in the workplace for being deaf. Fedi has since been building relationships between Ministry for Employment, unemployed youth with disabilities and potential future employers. He will be accompanied by his interpreter - Houssem Aloui.

Fedi Bahri

27, Tunisia  

Energetic Marketing student from Morocco engaged in multiple youth-development initiatives in Morocco. Focus areas include HIV/AIDS, climate change, sustainable agriculture and entrepreneurship for young people. Hopes to set up an organic farm to hire unemployed youth and re-strengthen agricultural sector in her country.

     Imane Benjelloun

20, Morocco

Strong disability rights campaigner from South Sudan who believes passionately in the role young people can play in governance, having been so inspired by the role of youth during the revolution in Sudan to create an independent state of South Sudan. Also discrimated for his mobility impairment. 

James Ochan Amos

29, South Sudan 

Very passionate about addressing poverty and injustice amongst the youth in Uganda. Has been hugely active in employment and livelihoods work at a local community level, having volunteered as a peer educator with Restless and started his own NGO called Implementers Uganda.

Joel Bamwise

21, Uganda 

Young development worker from The Gambia who is keen to learn new lessons from across the region to help address issues relating to Education and Employment for youth at home.

Kaddijatou Manneh

21, The Gambia

A very talented ghanian youth advocate and reporter with strong knowledge on the current situation at home for young people. Has struggled to make the voice of youth heard in the media in Ghana and is passionate about strengthening youth inclusion in society, particularly those with disabilities.

Lilly Mensah

23, Ghana

Passionate about uniting a strong, skilled and knowledgeable network of young people in Africa to address developmental issues that affect them the most. Has carried out lots of livelihoods training with youth in Zimbabwe and has lots of ideas to share.

Mthulisi Moyo

26, Zimbabwe 

   

Highly creative youth worker who has started his own ice cream company to find work for young people who are victims of conflict in the DRC. V passionate on issues of sustainable development and youth representation in decision-making.

Prince Wilondja

24, DRC

Experienced young advocate and youth worker from Ethiopia who is working hard to raise the under-represented voice of ethiopian youth. V knowledgeable on the socio-economic picture, and already has lots of advocacy work under her belt!

Yeabsira Bogale

23, Ethiopia 

Young senegalese youth 'Activista' who is passionately working on youth sexual health issues. Very excited to see that the Forum will be taking place in his country, as he feels strongly that Senegalese Youth have a lot to give.

Yves Ghislain

24, Senegal 

Very passionate advocate and youth campaigner working to raise the profile of youth-led development in Cameroon. A skilled communicator and very knowledgeable on the socio-economic picture in her country right now.

Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo

27, Cameroon 

They will also be accompanied by their communicators and facilitators of the whole forum.

These kind of youths interactions which combine youths from every part of Africa build good relationship among members of African states and prevent future clashes.

Youths are engines of development and peace and if are not well impacted with necessary knowledge to understand how valuable they are in their society, they will not play huge roles that requires out of them.

THANK YOU MO IBRAHIM and RESTLESS DEVELOPMENT for making this a reality.