Town Hall Meetings
Canada
YGL: Honourable Scott Brison, M.P. Kings Hants
Date(s) of Event(s): November 9th (Central Kings) and November 10th (Hants North), November 21st (Acadia University) and December 2nd (University of Ottawa)
Venue and Local Partner: Nova Scotian high schools
Details to follow
China
YGL: Hafsat Abiola
Date(s) of Event: Mid Dec.
Venue & Local Partner to host event: Tsinghua Univ's School of Public Policy and Management & Association of Students for International Development
Total Expected Participants: 10
Average age: 25
Colombia
YGL: Juan Mario Laserna
Date(s) of Event(s): One completed to date, two more within the next week
Total Expected Participants: 60
Issue focus/angle: Economy, Institutions, and Security
Japan
YGL: Adrian Cheok
Date(s) of Event: December 6
Venue & Local Partner to host event: Collaboration Complex, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. cooperate with Prof. Ichiya Nakamura (Keio media Deisgn).
Total Expected Participants: 25 children (age 10-12) and their parents (25-30 people). 50-55 total.
Average age: 10-12 year-old children in 4th-6th grades of elementary school.
Any particular issue focus/angle you will take: Creativity, Digital Kids, Visual Expressions, Digital Natives
http://wefkids.kmd.keio.ac.jp/
Jordan
YGL: Johann Olav Koss
Date(s) of Event: November 7th - Another event to follow
Total Participants: 21 youth (7 female, 14 male)
Age range: 13-22
Liberia
YGL: Johann Olav Koss
Date(s) of Event: November 23rd and 24th (coinciding with regional celebrations for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child)
Venue & Local Partner: Liberia Youth Network (LYONET)
Mexico
YGL: Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
Date(s) of Event(s): October 27, 28th, and 29th
Venue & Local Partner to host event: Monterrey Tech, Monterrey Campus
Total Expected Participants: 21
Average age: 20
Any particular issue focus/angle you will take: Student Leaders representing the majority of interest groups and communities in campus, discussing the YGLs agenda and focusing on specific issues regarding this agenda.
YGL: Idalia Cruz
Date(s) of Event(s): November 26th
Venue & Local Partner: Universidad del Distrito Federal Campus Santa Maria
Total Expected Participants: 50 students
Average age: 17-22
Mongolia
YGL: Ganhuyag Ch. Hutagt
Date(s) of Event: December 5-6, 2009 - Town Hall meeting
Venue & Local Partner to host event: Training room, Tenger Financial Group
Local Partners: New Young Leaders Club, Rotary and Rotaract Clubs in Mongolia, Alumni Association of Young Leadership Program
Total Expected Participants: around 50
Average age: 21-24
Nepal
YGL: Aashmi Rajya Laxmi Rana
Date(s) of Event: December 5th
Total Expected Participants: 200+ Students
Issue focus/angle: 4 pillars as topic
Nigeria
YGL: Hafsat Abiola
Date(s) of Event: Dec. 6 - 13
Venue & Local Partner to host event: Univ of Awka, Nigeria & KIND's Young Women's Leadership Programme Workshop
Total Expected Participants: 100
Average age: 20
Rwanda
YGL: Johann Olav Koss
Date(s) of Event: November 17th
Venue & Local Partner: Right to Play & Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle
Report Pending
Singapore
YGL: Adrian Cheok
Date of Event: December 12th
Venue: Pending, probably Keio NUS CUTE Center Local Partners: KEIO-NUS CUTECenter
Total Expected Participants: 20-25
Average age: ~ 15
Any particular issue focus/angle you will take: Creativity, Sustainability of Society and Environment
United States
YGL: Wilmot Allen
Date(s) of Event: Nov 16, 2009
Venue & Local Partner to host event: Crenshaw High School Los Angeles
Total Expected Participants: 25
Average age: 17
Any particular issue focus/angle you will take: local impact of the recession as intro to GRI pillars
YGL: Matias
Miami
(FIU) University
YGL: Hafsat Abiola
Date: November 8th
Venue and Local Partner: Philips Academy, Andover MA - Youth Conference
Participants: 100
Focus/Angle: GRI Themes discussed at Youth Conference
Uganda
YGL: Johann Olav Koss
Date(s) of Event: November 11 and 16th
Total Participants: 271 youth (145 female, 126 male)
Venue & Local Partner: Community settings, community centres, Right to Play facilitating
Average age: 13-26
