On October 12, 2022 UNYS member Leroy Victorine attended the Youth Connekt African Summit held in Kegali, Rwanda. The Summit was held from the 12th to the 15th of October 2022 and featured numerous countries across Africa to present several topics of discussion.
Various conversations on the topics of financial freedom and youth entrepreneurial investments were made, but Leroy's primary topic of discussion focused on Young People's Health, namely mental health and the individual and situational factors that creates it. An unanimous vote was held for the betterment of mental health by the encouragement of setting up associations, holistic medical treatment. The discussion further circled the socioeconomic regression of countries requiring reconciliation and forgiveness and pardon to help ease genocide effects. |
A forum was organised on April 29, 2022 by the Ministry of Youth and Sports on the occasion of productivity awareness week whereby representatives from; the Ministry of Social Affairs, Education and Employment as well as the Deputy CEO of STA were present. Their presentation touched upon the mission, vision and strategies being implemented by each ministry to increase productivity within the workplace for youth. Ms Angelique Juliette who represented UN Youth Seychelles at the event explained that six representatives were invited to engage in a debate about pertinent topics affecting youth productivity. They were able to put forward their views as well as solutions they felt may contribute towards increasing youth productivity.
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UN Youth Seychelles (UNYS) participated in the NGO Forum organised by Ceps Seychelles represented by Miss Leah Malbrook a Policy Officer of UNYS who attended the event. The event took place on February 26, 2022 at the STC Conference room. Miss Malbrook explained that the event started with a presentation delivered by a representative from the a Ministry responsible for Finance informing NGO members who attended on the importance of statistics when recording activities and projects and particularly when applying for Government grants. It was also stated multiple times that civil society/ NGOs can have the potential to become a pillar in the government.
The next presentation was about the conducive environment for NGOs to thrive in terms of legal aspects, resources such as finance and good leadership/governance. On the topic of resources a list of possible grant opportunities was shown to the participants, both national and international. |
On Saturday the 18th September 2021, HWPL’s 7th anniversary of the World Peace summit took place online with about 1000 people on a zoom meeting in attendance. Members of UN Youth Seychelles Ms Steffie-Ann Monthy and Ms Annarose Clarisse were able to participate in this annual event marking a very historic day.
The online summit began by marking why HWPL was initiated with the motive of global peace and cessation of war. Since the founding of the organisation, they have indulged in numerous global efforts with this motive including creating international laws of peace, alliance of religions, women and youth empowerment, legislate peace campaigns, several peace walks and most importantly peace education to the youth. The statistics are astonishing in the amount of global leaders, office bearers and lecturers that have been appointed in communicating these ideas around in several countries globally. |
From the 22nd to the 24th June, some members of UNYS were given the opportunity to partake in the budget symposium workshop hosted by the Transparency Initiative Seychelles (TIS). Members who took part include, Mr. Raymus Laurence (The President), Ms. Amy Jean (Vice-President) and Ms. Annarose Clarisse (Country Representative and Founder).
The first day of the workshop involved an interactive introduction to the budgeting process and what it entails which was carried to the second day as participants were able to put into practice what was learnt the previous day. By the end of the second day, participants were already able to comprehend budget documents and understand their importance. |
IPYG Southern Africa, in collaboration with UN Youth (Seychelles) and JCI Beau Bassin Rose Hill (Mauritius), invites you to a Youth Empowerment Workshop on Saturday 07 November 2020.The workshop titled, Solidaire: Island Youth Against Substance Abuse, will be centered around substance abuse, a social illness that has infected the youth on the South Eastern Coast of Africa. This workshop aims to educate and create awareness among the youth on the current situation of drug abuse; as well as propose practical ways to help stop their prevalence in order to pave way for an everlasting culture of peace. Young people, teachers, parents and other members of society are welcome to participate and spread this message of peace.
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