More information about the African Women and Youth Conference in Dakar, Senegal March 10-11, 2007



We are delighted to hear that you and your organization are interested in the African Women and Youth conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 10-11, 2007. This will be our 12th conference and our first one in Africa. We have had an awesome response from organizations from all over Africa and we all seem to have the same problem of lack of resources to get to the conference. We are also a grassroots African organization and we do not have any money. The reason we have been able to do these conferences is because everyone that participates volunteers their labor and it is our labor that allows us to do the conferences. If we were depending on money we would not have been able to do any of the conferences that have been done. The theme of this conference is the importance of self-reliance and if Africa is going to be self-reliant then it is our hard work and determination that we must depend on to get everything done. We would love to have at least one representative from each African country to participate in the conference so if we do not have enough resources for everyone who wants to come, we ask that in each country you pick one person to represent you and everyone help that person to get to the conference. We believe this is the best way to proceed. Registration is at the door and the conference is free. We are calling for African Women and Youth conferences to be organized everywhere. We are not rich people so we must think in terms of how we can use our labor and determination to organize these conferences where we live and not let money be the reason that we do not organize these conferences and build African Women and Youth Movements. This is the only way that we are going to liberate and unify Africa.



With an undying love for mother Africa,



Rwanda Saleem

African Women's Charity Organization