7TH GLOBAL YOUTH SUMMIT STARTS IN LONDON TODAY!

Young people from across the world have converged in London to take part in this year’s Global Changemakers Global Youth Summit. The Summit has started today, 25^th November and ends on 1^st December, 2012. Global Youth Summit is a British Council’s Global Changemakers initiative which brings together young social entrepreneurs, social activists and volunteers to share ideas and best practices in their field of work. In addition, the summit offers the changemakers an opportunity to work on projects that directly impact the lives of those in their local communities.

This year’s changemakers (ages16-21) were selected from over 3400 applicants from across the world. This week, the new changemakers will be engaged in social entrepreneurship, learning Global issues, best practices in project management and later have a round table discussion with some officials of the British Parliament. Key global issues like human rights, climate change, poverty reduction, education, and HIV/AIDS will also be duly addressed.

Abdulie Badji from The Gambia considers himself as one of the luckiest young people to be attending this summit. He believes in networking and added that “Sharing best practices and information will help to see how best we can turn our ideas into activities to create the change we all hope to see”.

Armin, from Canada thinks this summit offers the best platform to bring about change on the international scale through inspiration and collaboration.

Global Changemakers, since its inception in 2007 has partnered with and participated in Global events like the World Economic Forum events, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Global Humanitarian Forum, various UN initiatives (including UNESCO Peace Ambassador programs, UNFCCC and COP, and the G20. Global Changemakers, as a global network, currently has over 800 social entrepreneurs, social activists and volunteers (ages 16-25) in 126 countries world-wide.