SI MONTHLY NEWS August 2006 Youth
From SI Exco News
CENTRAL AMERICA REGIONAL
MEETING "YOUTH AND LEADERSHIP IN SERVAS"
• Here I am again. Another month with more brief news for you to share. As you know Servas Youth is growing and taking action in several levels and regions, well, Central America and the Caribbean region is our next stop.
• “Central America Youth and Leadership in Servas, January ’07” is a project that the International Youth Coordinator is working on right now with the support of the vice president, the DFC and mostly all the national groups of the area including Mexico. This region, without area coordinator and plenty of needs could be supported by Servas Youth in several ways.
• During the GA Servas Youth organized a lunch with all the national secretaries present from the region and other members. Also the Vice President (now in charge) joined us, to find the way to provide some support to this area. The most important outcome from that lunch was a personal bridge with these members. Great people. After the Latina meeting Servas Youth has maintained a strong mail correspondence with this area looking for volunteers to the Servas Youth Working Group, to try to find a city to host a SYLE the next year, offering help in several matters and reinforcing the link with these Servas.
• The action will be a meeting in Costa Rica during the second week of January for Servas regional leaders and Servas youth members from Central America and the Caribbean to celebrate specific workshops and discussions based on two topics:
o Develop the youth in the area
o Improve the Servas outreach and structure in the area
• Workshops on:
o Design a development plan for the area including Youth actions. For this assistance in material, technical support, guide, and others will be requested from DFC.
o Presentation of the Servas Youth Programs. Looking for an strong presence of this are in the S.Y. Working Group, cities that will host a SYLE, designation of a Youth Contact for each country.
o Training for Servas Youth Leaders. Look for new ways to develop the youth in the area. How the Servas structure works. Conflict resolution. Construction of networks with other members.
o Link with other Youth NGOs. Invitation to other NGOs working in the area to make a brief presentation and look for the way to work together.
o Presentation of the results of Servas Youth Working Group. For next January we will have already results from each sub-group to present, re-discuss and share.
• A dynamic e-mail correspondence is happening with this national groups to put all the pieces together. Each country was invited to send proposal to include on the agenda and to let us know its reality. Will be a pleasure share with you the agenda when it is done. And obviously you are invited to join us. Central America receives a lot of travelers and has a huge potential in Servas.
• Thanks for your attention and soon you will hear more about this through this Servas Monthly News.
Pablo Chufeni, Youth Co-ordinator
THE BARRIERS OF THE LANGUAGE FOR TRAVELLING
YOUTH ANDTHE BENEFITS THAT SERVAS YOUTH OFFERS
Communication is of supreme importance and it is the base of a good human coexistence. Overall it is important for the youth that we have at the present of our countries. At world level it is necessary to know or at least to have the base of another language different to our own, since when facing the globalization the communication is fundamental among countries, cultures and people.
The language can be restrictive, it can also open many doors according to how people take advantage of it and have the necessary tools for it. Servas Youth, is a group that is newly formed, and is helping to conquer the barriers of the language. This offers big benefits and opportunities for exchanging languages and overall the option of learning traveling.
Being a young traveler means to enjoy more as an experimental education, not so much as formal lessons, although these they are important. Servas Youth allows you this and more, since when visiting, chatting and knowing people around the world enhances learning so that you know more and better.
As world youth builds, from our present to a different world, they should know how to take advantage of the opportunities that today SERVAS offers us. In this way they can achieve a world without barriers of languages.
Diana Tomás, Servas Guatemala
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