SI MONTHLY NEWS NOVEMBER 2005 Youth
From SI Exco News
Youth
SERVAS YOUTH
Kind regards to all of you. The Monthly News has
shown us that it is useful for the organisation with
a strong impact on our Servas community. For me
personally and for Servas Youth particularly this
was a powerful way of diffusion. PATAGONIA’06
was announced to the world through this Servas
publication.
PATAGONIA’06 is no more a weird word to us and we hope it is not to any of you. All the Servas family at an international level knows that in the third week of next January will take place the first international youth meeting in the southern hemisphere. It promises to be the biggest ever.
I have made contact personally with a lot of national secretaries, young Servas members, and those interested in the youth topic. The consequence of these contacts, one by one, is that today we can say we will have delegates from around 20 countries. You could see the list on our web site youth.Servas.org, and then you will have an excuse to visit it!
In Bariloche we will be Servas getting together from all around the globe. To me, Pablo Chufeni, it is not a minor pride to say that PATAGONIA’06 will have presence from every continent. Europe, Oceania, Asia, Africa and all the Americas. I insist it is not a minor pride.
People that will arrive with the goal of imparting their opinion, their wish of take a stand in Servas. People that, I do not have any doubt will help to convert Servas Youth into a more dynamic impulse and stronger inside Servas.
I can testify the importance that these kind of events are. It is not tourism, it is not social, it is not to get some fun, to take pictures or be on holidays. It is not just that. All these happen and It is great because they increase the real objective of these meetings. Move us, transform us, help us to remember the infinite pleasure of the task that we have in front in Servas, and how key is this task.
It is in these meetings when the projects take shape, when we can put a face to that e-mail address that we see so often in our mail box, and that improves a lot the ways of communication and more then nothing the perspective of action. The action, as a concept, is my axis in Servas, and the one that I want to give to Servas Youth. We have in front a huge human network ready to help and provide its amazing resources to do very concrete actions. People around the world have arranged to offer their time, energy, skills, and their force to this noble task. Develop the inter-cultural respect and build a new and peaceful culture.
Servas Youth want to offer the space of PATAGONIA’06 to link us with other organisations with perspectives and objectives compatible with ours. We will run workshops of some of the NGOs that work on social development and multiculturalism. FALE (Brazil), Development Youth Council (Bangladesh), Ecoclubes (Argentina), Panafrican Youth Congress (Senegal) and we are working with some others to invite them and build a bridge with them.
The agenda of the meeting is completely dedicated to the development of Servas issues: Group integration, to celebrate our cultural diversity, to design new programs and projects oriented to the youth area, focus on increasing the growth of the youth area of our organisation so that they can contribute in actuality to the major functions of our world.
Promote new active local groups, promote international actions, promote the interaction inside each region or country, and for that a young perspective and energy is vital. The distinction between that person young of age and of that one of spirit is clear for all of us, we look for this young energy, the energy that creates programs, projects, actions! Servas Youth and PATAGONIA’06 look for these people to move them, to use their support to grow in Servas.
I am personally working in another program for Servas Youth but at this stage our first issue and worry is the conference in Bariloche. Focus on this is necessary if we want to make a hit. And we want it. A jump into the Servas Youth´s future.
Please remember that you will be more than welcome and that your presence will be absolutely important to us. No other could give us your opinion.
Mi mas fuerte y sincero abrazo a todos ustedes
Pablo Chufeni
Coordinator International of Servas Youth
inserted by Amelia
