Announcing 3rd Edition of International Youth Forum (IYF) June 8th –
10th, 2006.

Preamble:
For 3 exciting days, great young minds passionate about moving youth
development forward shall converge in Jos for the 3rd edition of IYF
2006. In 2004 during the maiden edition, about 70 youths from 13 states
attended, in 2005, about 60 youths from 18 states attended, in 2006, we
are expecting over 60 youths and youth leaders to attend this 2006
youth program of record! Impact Report: During IYF 2005, after a session on
how youths can participate in nation building, a participant confessed
that he has been involved in examination malpractices for years and has
over 100 clients annually, but after the session, he just quit and will
begin to engage in more patriotic and productive activities towards
nation building. Today he is pioneering a growing youth organization in
his state!

Youth Background: A glance through the World Youth Report (WYR) 2005
affirms that young people under the age of 30 constitute over a third
of the worlds population, in some countries, these age bracket
constitute over half of the population, the biggest new generation ever! Data
available from the report further states that 200 million youths are
living in poverty, 130 million illiterate, 88 million unemployed and 10
million living with HIV/AIDS. We affirm the global consensus that led to
the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) all of which are
directly or indirectly related to the well being of young people.

· While we must join to continue to call on leaders at all
level to continue to commit more to the development of the well being of
this next generation, which is today’s youths. We as young people must
decisively put pressure on ourselves to act and contribute to processes
that improves our states as young citizens.
· As governments initiate policies, we as youths must work to
be part of the process. As governments make policies that affect
education, health, employment etc, it is our duty to examine the policies
and push for either review or full implementation.
· As government announces budgets, it is our duty to monitor
and to ensure prudent use of funds geared towards the youth sub sector
and development in general.
· Where there are no structures that represent youths
democratically in a sustainable way or where there is no youth minister, it is
young people who need to lobby and advocate creatively to have
credible structures.
· Where society is yet to recognize our voice as young
people, it is our duty to keep adding volume to our voice on issues we feel
strongly about until change happens.
· As young people, we must begin to better demonstrate our
ability to add value to society as potential partners in development
progress.
· For these and much more, we shall be organizing IYF 2006!


Theme “Improving the state of the Youths” Over the next 5
years, beginning from 2006 to 2010, IYF shall focus on mobilizing and
educating young people on how to productively engage and compliment social
development processes that are practically improving the state of the
youths. IYF seeks to explore how youths can build their competences in
development programmes and how to build strategic partnership with
stakeholders in improving the youth sector.

Thematic Areas of Focus:
a) The state of the youths in contemporary Nigeria,
mitigating trends and the MDGs

b) Youth organizations and social development work
in developing societies.

c) Fostering active participation and effective
partnership with adults towards sustainable development.

d) Youths, entrepreneurship and ICT.

e) Reflections on leadership, followership and good
governance.

IYF 2006 Strategy:
A. IYF 2006 is expected to hold in Jos, Plateau state, the middle
belt region of Nigeria, known for its beauty, natural tourist sites,
cool weather and tranquility. For those visiting Jos for the first time,
get ready for an interesting time of your life.

B. Participants shall be drawn from different ethnic, national
and socio-religious backgrounds united on a common ground of improving
the state of young people. It promises to be a celebration of our
diversities, unity and youth!

C. There shall be paper presentation by powerful resource
persons, work groups and plenary sessions. After presentations, there shall be
panel discussions to allow participants further deliberate on topical
areas with facilitators.

D. The group works sessions provide small units to encourage
individual thinking and inputs, shared understanding on issues to be
harmonized as collective recommendations for action committees. Action
committees shall fine tune recommendations and present to the house at the
end of the event for ratification and for post conference activities.

E. Reflections on leadership will include film shows, reviews of
leadership impact and pledge to extol good leadership in daily life and
endeavors as young people.

Highlights:
· Tour of selected sites on the Plateau.
· Launching of Youngstars Foundation Monthly Magazine.
· Commemoration and cutting 10th Year Anniversary cake of
Youngstars Foundation.
· Social Night and Special Awards.


Participation & Registration:

Over 60 young people below the age of are expected to attend IYF 2006
in Jos city!

Registration:
Nigeria participants:
N5,000 per participant, covering only lunch, tea breaks and
conference materials.

Foreign delegates:
$200 per participant.

Registration payment:
All selected participants shall pay their registration fees on or
before June 4th, 2006. Registration on arrival shall attract extra N500.

Accommodation Support:
Courtesy of Friends of Youngstars Foundation, there is free hostel
accommodation for 40 IYF participants residing outside Jos city. To
qualify for this facility, please indicate your need in your application
form.


How to register for IYF 2006.
You can complete a downloadable application form and send to us on or
before May 27th, 2006. Successful applicants shall be duly informed on
June 1st, 2006. Completed applications should be sent with a CV, 1
passport photograph and an essay on the topic “Improving the state of the
youths, my area of interest and what I can do” Incomplete applications
shall not be considered.


For more inquiries:
Contact us through
info@youngstarsfoundation.org


To support, sponsor or donate to IYF, 2006,
Please call this line +(234) 0803 58 68 58 6
Or email info@youngstarsfoundation.org
www.youngstarsfoundation.org

register today for:
IYF 2006, ………..improving the state of the youths!

Try not to be a person of success. But rather a person of value.
- unknown
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
- Norman R. Augustine



Unless a man undertakes more
than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
- Henry Drummond

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel.
- Carol Buchner
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
- Norman R. Augustine Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
- unknown



Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher



A mind troubled by doubt
cannot focus on the course to victory.
- Arthur Golden



Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson



Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt



Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Francis Bacon



The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- Jacob Bronowski



It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge
and does something about it.
- Vince Lombardi

One never notices
what has been done;
one can only see
what remains to be done.
- Marie Currie



Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
- George Eliot



Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison



A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell



The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
- William James



Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford



After the game,
the king and the pawn
go into the same box.
- Italian Proverb


Character is like a tree
and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln



What would you attempt to do
if you knew you would not fail?
- Robert Schuller



We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.
- B.J. Palmer



The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- Confucius



What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you.
- Wayne Dyer



Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
- Kenneth Blanchard



Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm Forbes



Anger makes you smaller,
while forgiveness forces you
to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott



Not every successful man is a good father.
But every good father is a successful man.
- R. Duvall



I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
- Mario Cuomo



The tragedy in life doesn't lie
in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays


Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon
If you are to be,
you must begin
by assuming responsibility.
You alone are responsible
for every moment of your life,
for every one of your acts.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


To make our way,
we must have firm resolve,
persistence, tenacity.
We must gear ourselves
to work hard all the way.
We can never let up.
- Ralph Bunche
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Anonymous
The real contest is always
between what you've done
and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
- Geoffrey Gaberino
Success is never final.
Failure is never fatal.
Courage is what counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill

I did not want to post this before but I'm still obssessed with the future and at the same time thinking that my generation should learn from our fathers and forefathers and improve.
Read what our computer Giant Phillip Emeagwali has to say:

It is one of the interview I had like you guys to share with me. It is about how Africa can make a progress in this new millenium.BBC Network Africa interviewed the Nigeria Computer Giant, Philip Emeagwali.
Think through it.



TOPIC:TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR INTEGRATING AFRICA
BBC Network Africa: What can technology do for Africa in the new millennium?



EMEAGWALI: A few millennia ago, Africans were the first to enter the Agricultural Age. The first to build in stones. The first to pioneer in technology.
Today, Africa is behind every continent in technology and as a result is the poorest continent. Technological knowledge can be used to create wealth and alleviate poverty in Africa.

Kwame Nkrumah also said: "Socialism without science is void." Therefore, we cannot reduce poverty in Africa without scientists and engineers.

The lack of technological knowledge is the reason for the wide disparity between the rich and the poor nations. The 500 richest people on Earth has more money than the 3 billion poorest people on Earth. Because the rich nations are getting richer much faster than the poor nations, the gap between the rich and poor will continue to widen.

This gap can be closed African nations focusing on developing an economy that is knowledge and technology based, instead of one that is based on the export of natural resources.

MEDICINE
The present life expectancy in Africa is 50 years. By the end of this 21st century, medical science will make it possible for an African to live up to 150 years. Today, it is impossible for a person to live beyond the age of 125 years.

A child born today could live long enough to see the middle of the twenty-second century. In a sense, African children of today will be time travellers that will live in and connect the twentieth (20th), twenty-first (21st) and twenty-second (22nd) centuries.

Unfortunately, we will find that long life will be a mixed blessing because many Africans will be working to support their grand parents, great grand parents and great-great grand parents.

Therefore, we need to have retirement taxes and will be used to fund social security payments for the elderly. And if life expectancy increases to one hundred years, we will be forced to raise the retirement age to 90 years.

In this century, we expect to make medical discoveries that will cure AIDS and save the lives of 22 millions of Africans that are threatened by HIV/ANDS.

We expect to eradicate malaria and tuberculosis. We expect to eradicate Guinea worm by providing safe drinking water to all Africans.

POPULATION
It is the technology of the 20th century that increased food production, reduced infant mortality rate and increased the population of Africa. A century ago, less than 100 million people lived in Africa. Today, 800 million people live in Africa. Africa cannot ignore to implement family planning.

In this 21st century, Nigeria could become the third most populous country in the world. Only China and India will be larger than Nigeria and the population of Nigeria will be three times larger than that of Russia.

I am the oldest of nine children. Because my parents could not afford to raise my siblings, I brought all my brothers and sisters to live in the United States. If my siblings and I were to have nine children for nine generations while non-relatives of mine have two children, the descendants of Emeagwali in America could form the third largest nation on Earth, behind only China and India.

Five hundred years ago, there were 500 million people on Earth and five million people in Nigeria. It took 10,000 generations for Nigeria's population to reach five million. Yet from my great-grand-father's generation to mine, Nigeria's population has increased from five million to 120 million.

The human species emerged 160,000 years ago. If our ancestors had an average of nine children, the Earth will be so overcrowded that they will have been no room for forests and animals to co-exist with the human race. This means that we would have run out of food a long time ago.

I believe that the main reason the quality of life has not improved in Nigeria, despite our great natural resources, is that our population is increasing faster than our natural wealth. Put differently, if we want the quality of life we see in American television, we must have fewer children than even the Americans.

On the other hand, if we insist that our wives must have six or seven children, then we should make fathers to prepay for their child's education. We should write it into our constitution that the percentage of our national budget devoted to education should be proportional to the percentage of our population that is of school age. One in two Nigerians is in school. Therefore, one in two petrodollars should be invested in education.

Having a large labor force will not be an advantage in the new global economy of the 21st century. The wealth of the future will be created largely by knowledge and technology and not by natural resources and a large population. Therefore, it does not make sense to have a large family of seven children who will grow up uneducated and unemployed.

Since the African economy does not have enough jobs, it will be difficult for the next-generation to afford education, health services, housing and food. Reducing the number of children per family is a requirement for reducing poverty in Africa.

Family planning must be part of the school curriculum in Africa. The best way to alleviate poverty is for each family to have one child and invest heavily in that child's education.

INFORMATION AGE
The rich nations use knowledge and information to create wealth. Africa tries to create wealth by exporting raw materials to the more affluent nations. The lesson we learned from Nigeria is that a massive inflow of petrodollars will not bring an economic prosperity. In exchange, Nigeria spent its petrodollars on aircrafts, cars and swiss bank accounts.

What Africa needs to do is to acquire technological knowledge so that it can export technological products to Europe and the United States.

Africa should reduce its investments in agriculture and industrialization and make long-range plans to leapfrog into the Information Age in which knowledge is the most valuable commodity.

It happened in Ireland. Malaysia plans to do so. Similarly, Africa can leapfrog into the Information Age by having fewer children, investing in education and eliminating military spending.

In the Information Age, millions of good paying jobs will require computer literacy and it Africa should start preparing by focusing on education and technology.

The Internet now makes it possible for an African to be employed by an American company. Many companies will rather pay $15,000-a-year salary to an African professional than pay an American $60,000 a year.

Africa can attract these high-technology companies by investing heavily in technical education, introducing lots of computer courses and producing one million scientists and engineers a year. There are still opportunities in computer programming.

In terms of future employment, the implication of the Internet is that an African contract programmer will not need an immigration work permit to work in the United States.




BBC Network Africa
What kind of technology is appropriate for Africa's development needs?


EMEAGWALI: The kind of technology that creates the most wealth. However, I will like to caution that understanding how to use technology is more difficult and of far greater importance than acquiring. It is dangerous to acquire hunting gun technology without an understanding of the restrict hunting. In Nigeria, all the big game animals have been hunted to extinction. The Nigerian rainforest has been completely destroyed by unrestricted logging for timber. Nigeria cannot have eco-tourism in the future. The only thing left is petroleum and a few minerals. With reckless abandon, we issued unrestricted license to oil companies and "foreign investors" exploit, extract and export our natural resources so that it will be used to further develop the more developed nations. Officially, we claim that we are developing our natural resources. It is a misnomer to claim that we are developing our petroleum resources that were formed millions of years ago. An oil field becomes dry after about 20 years. We can extract and exploit our oil fields but we cannot develop it. The harvest of tomorrow is purchased with the seed corn of today. By mining and exporting our natural resources, Africa is eating the seed corn of tomorrow.
Education and understanding of how to use technology is more important than acquiring the technology itself. Medical technology will give us information about how to reduce infant mortality. But it is education that gives us the understanding that reducing infant mortality without practicing family planning will result in overpopulation and an increase in the level of poverty.

Going back to your original question: What kind of technology is appropriate for Africa's development needs? Africa has been encouraged to focus on low technologies such as the development of solar, hydro and wind energy. Solar panels and wind mills have been and will always be inefficient technology. These low technologies didn't work in the America and will not work in Africa.

As a former civil engineer, I know that hydroelectric dams and reservoirs has negative impacts on the environment and in some instances resulted in the flooding and destruction of historical relics, as in Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Also, low level agricultural technology has not contributed much to food production in Africa. We need to shift from sustainable agricultural technology into computer information age technology.

Since high technology creates more wealth than low technology, Africa should focus on high technology. Sixty percent of the wealth in the developed nations is created from technological knowledge. Since the wealth of the future will be created from technological knowledge, Africa must invest in technological development or risk being left behind.

Computing, communications, Internet are the physical infrastructure of the Information Age. If Africa fails to invest on the latest technology it will be find itself isolated from the global community.

In the global village, nations have to specialize. What we have today is a situation in which Africa provides the raw materials while Europe and America provides the technology, manufactured goods, and capital. By the end of this century, the natural resources of most African countries will be exhausted and Africa will have nothing to trade in the global economy. Africa has to plan for the rainy day when all its natural resources are gone.

Africa must leapfrog from low agricultural technology to high information age technology. Because of high birth rates, Africa has 350 million school children. Like new languages, children can understand computer language faster than their parents, it makes sense to invest in computer education.





BBC Network Africa:
One of our listeners has predicted that an African will be the first person to land on the planet Mars - do you think that might happen?





EMEAGWALI: Yes, an African can be among the first crew of astronauts to land on the planet Mars. I have applied to become an astronaut and NASA sent me a note last week, informing me that my application will be reviewed in January. Even if I don't get selected as an astronaut, I expect an African to be selected in the future and to travel to the planet Mars by the middle of the 21st century.
Space of exploration is now a co-operative project which several countries contribute money and astronauts. The international space station is jointly owned and operated by the United States, Japan, Russia and other nations.

It will cost a trillion dollars to send a person to the planet Mars and the United States cannot afford to make that voyage alone. Therefore it is conceivable that the first astronaut crew to land on the planet Mars will include an African, Asian and a female. In the 21st century, Africa could contribute money and astronauts that will travel to the planet Mars.

We don't go to a planet because we want to be the first race to get there. Americans won the lunar space race by landing the first man on the Moon. The astronauts returned with lunar rocks. When we discovered that the Moon is the most expensive and most useless piece of real estate in our solar system, we cancelled all trips to the Moon.

The exploration and development of the planet Mars is not as important as improving the quality of life on Earth. Landing on Mars is not as important as finding a cure for AIDS or saving the rain forests.

We should be looking towards the Earth in the 21st century and not towards the planets. The Earth is the best place for the human race to live in. Compared to the Moon and Mars, the Earth is a paradise.

Unfortunately, Mother Earth is ill. Her lungs, the tropical rain forests are disappearing. The African rain forest is a paradise and the birthplace of humanity

When the rain forests are gone, many species will be extinct. Since the human race is connected to other species, whatever happens to the trees and animals of the rain forests will happen to the human race. We are merely custodians of the rain forests. We did not inherit the rain forest from our ancestors. We borrowed it from our children.



BBC Radio Producer: Can you see yourself, and other Africans who've been successful overseas, returning to live in Africa in the new Millennium?



EMEAGWALI: The brain drain is a historic as well as a recent phenomenon. Over four centuries, the slave ships brought the ancestors of 200 million Africans now living in the United States, Brazil, Jamaica and in the diaspora. These 200 million diasporan Africans have the highest standard of living and possess the education and skills that can be used to develop Africa but it will be impractical for them to return to Africa.
Today, one in three African university graduate now live and work outside Africa. There are more Sierra Leonean medical doctors in the city of Chicago than in the entire nation of Sierra Leone. Africa's most important export to Europe and the United States is trained professionals, not petroleum, gold and diamond.

It seems like there are more African intellectuals living abroad than within Africa. African officials come to the United States to seek technical assistance from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Africans are the most educated ethnic group in the United States. Therefore, our leaders can seek technical assistance from Africans living in the United States. Sixty-four percent of Nigerians in this country has one or more university degrees. There are one million Africans living in the United States.

We came to America to study. We planned to return home. But things got worse at home and we decided to remain in America.

It wasn't always like this. When Nnamdi Azikiwe and Kwame Nkrumah arrived in the United States in 1920s and 30s. Back then there were about 20 sub-Saharan Africans in the entire United States. A hundred percent of those that came to the United States returned home. In fact, up till about 1980, most African students returned home.

The widely held myth is that Africa is only exporting raw materials to the west. Africa is also exporting talented human resources to Europe and America. One million Africans are working outside Africa.

At the same time, Africa spends four billion dollars a year on the salary of 100,000 foreign experts. Yet, African nations are unwilling to spend a similar amount of money to recruit one million African professionals working outside Africa.

The problem is getting worse. One in three African university graduate live and work outside Africa. In effect, we are operating one third of African universities to satisfy the manpower needs of western nations.

One third of the African education budget is a supplement to the American education budget. In effect, Africa is giving developmental assistance to the United States.

There are more Sierra Leonean medical doctors in Chicago than in Sierra Leone. At the rate medical doctors are leaving Nigeria, we could eventually have more Nigerian doctors working outside Nigeria than within it.

We also need engineers to help provide constant electricity, clean water and safe roads.

We also need scientists. We use science and technology to discover and recover petroleum. We use medical science to reduce infant mortality rate.

We world has changed a lot in the last fifty years. In today's world knowledge creates wealth. Therefore, we need people with brains, not muscles. Unfortunately, it is the best and brightest that can obtain visas to the United States. What is left behind is the weak and less imaginative. It means that Africa will be getting poorer while the United States gets more affluent.

Put simply, Africa is exporting both natural and human resources. In the end, there will be no resources left within Africa. It means a slow death for Africa.

How can we reverse brain-drain?

We build a data bank of Africans abroad. Then we offer them meaningful employment and compensation that will entice them to return home.

Medical doctors cannot live on a salary of fifty (50) dollars a month. To make ends meet, some medical doctors raise poultry or manage beer parlor.

We need to change our national priorities.

We should stop spending one million dollars a day in fighting in Sierra Leone. One million dollars is greater than the daily salary of one million school teachers. While we are keeping peace in Sierra Leone, some teachers have not been paid their salaries for six months.

We must change our priorities be reducing our defense budget and increasing our education budget.

We must increase our investment in science, technology and education.

As we approach the end of this century, it is appropriate that we reflect on our legacy for our children. In the next century, it will be technological knowledge that will create wealth. Therefore, our legacy to our children will be the investments that we made on their education.

In partnership with Project Hope-Nigeria, Nigeria Interfaith Youth
Forum and the Youth Empowerment Foundation

Presents

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION, YOUTH, FAITH AND SERVICE

Conference Dates: December 14th -16th 2006
Venue: Jos, Plateau State-Nigeria.


Introduction:
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy.
Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young
people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from
its youths severs its lifetime”.
UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in his address to the World
Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth, Lisbon, 8 August 1998.

Young people are a major force in the contemporary world. They are at
the forefront of global, social, economic, political and religious
developments. In addition to their intellectual contribution and their
ability to mobilize support, young people have a unique perspective. How
our societies progress is determined, among other things, on how much the
youths are involved in building and designing the future. Young people
are very powerful instruments in promoting global peace, social
harmony, friendship and sustainable partnerships. When properly educated, well
informed, mobilized and positively engaged, young people can initiate
actions that would bring about unprecedented societal growth and
development. Religion on other hand, has the capacity of facilitating the
attainment of appropriate standards of excellence, motivating and equipping
a compassionate response and influencing decision-makers at various
strata of society to become effective and powerful voices and
agents for the promotion and sustenance of peace and social justice.

The International Conference on Information, Youth, Faith and Service
is committed to informing, educating, uniting, equipping and mobilizing
tomorrow’s leaders to become responsible and active agents for social
change, transformation and renewal, by the provision of clear service
opportunities that honor and appreciate their gifts and abilities.

Conference Theme:
The Conference theme of “Building Bridges Through Interreligious
Dialogue and Youth Service” will promote collaboration and build bridges of
love, trust and sustainable friendship among religious diverse young
people, emphasizing the vital roles information and religious dialogue
and active youth participation can play in reducing global conflicts and
bringing about the establishment of a just, loving and more habitable
world. The Conference will provide a forum for discussion on local,
national and international issues of common concern. Highlights include
dynamic presentations covering issues of universal responsibility, peace
and disarmament, social ethics, youth participation and the quest for
human happiness. The Conference will highlight the vital role of
information, religion and young people in bridging differences between peoples
and helping us to resolve some of the common problems that threaten the
very foundations of our collective human existence and our
inevitable future. The Conference will promote and encourage
individuals and organizations around the world to share the values common to
their faith traditions in service, dialogue, music and the arts.
Participants will visit historical sites, important religious centers and other
tourist sites within Plateau State of Nigeria. The Conference will
facilitate our efforts at establishing an International Interfaith Youth
Forum that will provide a platform for religious young people to
constantly meet and discuss in depth ways to eliminate the rhetoric of hate and
to end violence perpetrated in the name of religion as well as
eliminating the predictable back biting, gossip and mistrust and hatred that
flourish when interfaith is absent.


Participation Cost:
International Participants: $200 (Two hundred US Dollars)
Local Participants: N2000 (Two thousand Naira) only

Africa Christian Youths Development Foundation shall be responsible
for feeding, accommodation and Conference Materials for all Conference
Participants, covering 80% of the Conference cost for each participant.

Eligibility: Young people between the ages of 18 – 35 years involved
or interested in interfaith work and peace from any part of the world
can apply. However, preference will be given to youths who are already
deeply involved with interfaith work in their respective communities.

Participation Process:
To participate, kindly send an application letter, your CV or Resume’
and request for participation forms, giving brief details of your work
and why you want to participate in the Conference. Please, include all
your contacts details.
All Applications and Completed Participation Forms can be received
through email or by post on or before Saturday, 25th November 2006.
Successful applicants shall be contacted in writing by Thursday, 30th
November 2006.

Technical Sponsors/Advisers:

Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago-USA
The Dalai Lama Foundation, Palo Alto-USA
Teachers Without Borders-Nigeria
Rehab Plus UK

Please, direct all applications or inquiries to the following
addresses:
1. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba
The Executive Director,
Africa Christian Youths Development Foundation,
Opposite Dadin Kowa Last Gate,
Mass Comm
P.O.B0X 6545,
Jos
Plateau State-Nigeria
Email: secretariat@acydfoundation.org
Phone: +234-08052627310, 08027456608
Website: www.acydfoundation.org

2. Idot H. Robert
Project Hope-Nigeria
Email: youthfocusnigeria@yahoo.com

3. Philip Kings Abimiku
Youth Empowerment Foundation
Email: ayefoundation@yahoo.com