SI MONTHLY NEWS November 2006 Youth Leadership
From SI Exco News
Hello everybody. As you know SERVAS YOUTH (SY) is taking actions at several levels. The last SY Report was sent through the key list to all the National Secretaries (NS) and Officers of Servas International (SI)
The Monthly News is circulating this report by parts, and now we need to talk about the next action
YOUTH & LEADERSHIP IN SERVAS CENTRAL AMERICA
• “Central America Regional Meeting, 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 other officers.
• This region, without an area coordinator and with 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 from the region who were present and with other members at the meeting. 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 is a personal bridge with these members. 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 groups.
• At the last US-Mexican conference they made a document. One of the points was work to promote the Central American region by doing a regional meeting there every two years. Servas Youth is in contact with Servas Mexico and Servas US and we agreed to join forces on this matter.
• The proposal is a meeting in Costa Rica for Servas leaders and young Servas members from Central America to celebrate specific workshops which focus on two topics:
o Develop the youth in the area
o Improve the Servas structure and outreach 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 discussed with the DFC.
o Presentation of the Servas Youth Programs. Looking for a strong presence of the national groups in the S.Y. Working Group; cities that will host a SYLE and the 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 the Servas Youth Working Group. Next January we will have results from each sub-group to present and to re-discuss and to share.
o Needs and options: Presentation of the clear needs of this area and discussion to solve them in a creative and effective way.
o Presentations from each national group: Each country will have the space and the time to let us know the needs, proposals, ideas and projects to work at every level.
• This article is not only information, it is a formal invitation to all the people interested in collaborating and working for Servas. We will need good wills and skills for this action. So if you have any of those, you are more than welcome.
• Join us in Costa Rica from the 08 to the 13 of January 2007, to be part of this.
• This meeting at San Jose will provide the region with the skills and resources to become stronger and to improve the SERVAS spirit. To lead the change and to develop the human resource. The most important resource that we have in SERVAS.
Pablo Chufeni, Servas Youth International, Coordinator
Regional conference for Servas Central America, Leadership & Youth for Servas
As you might remember the General Assembly (GA) of Latina, had decided that regional conferences are necessary and that each geographic region must decide if it will became an “Area” or not, if will have an Area Coordinator (AC) or not, and that each national group (NG) can take an option about to be or not to be part of this Area. Also the AC will be elected by the NGs or appointed by EXCO if is required.
Starting with a lunch of NS during the GA, and taking shape through this year on a very intense coordination with each NG, Servas Youth is pleased to announce that the regional conference for Servas Central America “Leadership and Youth for Servas” is ready to be a complete hit. As the out come of lots of work and the unconditional support of EXCO and DFC the project is now a reality. A chance for the region to improve Servas outreach, organisation and function. To know each other and then work in a better atmosphere. To remember and to renew our commitment in Servas.
From 08/01/07 to 12/01/07, at the “Earth University of San Jose de Costa Rica” all the NS of the area (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama), members from the region and abroad (US, Singapore, Germany, New Zealand, etc), interested persons from countries where Servas has no current NG but used to have (Nicaragua and Cuba), Servas International Officers (Vice president, DFC officer, Servas Youth), young Central American members ready to contribute with new blood and energy and the Servas Spirit itself will be together thinking and taking stands about Servas. Giving the best of each one to let our organisation do what it is meant to do, improve this world from the base, person by person.
This project, as we have said, follow two main topics, that can be written in a single one sentence:
(1) Improve the Servas structure and outreach in the area,
(2) propose the youth as a vital element for this improvement.
The election of the new AC was discussed and approved by all the parts involved. Also the agenda was put under revision of each NS. We can say that this project was made democratically and listening every voice.
So I will come back to you to let you know the outcome of this meeting. The results of the Servas Central America Regional Conference “Leadership and Youth’07”
Pablo Chufeni
Servas Youth International Coordinator
pablochufeni[at]yahoo.com.ar
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