By Fredrick Ouko | Executive Director
Dear Friends, It gives me a great pleasure to share with you an achievement made in the last week during a week-long retreat in Washington D.C. This is in relation to an award bestowed on me by the International Youth Foundation by selecting me as one of this year`s YouthActionNet Global Fellow,joining a group of 20 other young social enterpreneurs working on community projects that advance the empowerment of young people all over the world. Launched in 2001 by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Nokia, YouthActionNet® seeks to develop a new generation of socially conscious global citizens who create positive change in their communities, their countries, and the world. “Each of the 2009 YouthActionNet® Fellows are passionate, committed young leaders who chose not to look the other way when they saw a problem, but to take a stand,” said IYF President and CEO William S. Reese. “Through their efforts, companies in Colombia are learning how to operate sustainably, low-income farmers in Zimbabwe are able to send their children to school, and youth in violence-prone neighborhoods in the U.S. are learning to be peace-builders.”
It is through your support and dedication to our work that this is made possible,we look forward to the possibilities provided by this recognition to our initiative.
As we share the success;we are reminded of the tasks a head and committments that will enable us make life habitable to persons with disabilities in our societies. In that view,it would be worth considering donating again to this project or informing a friend of the possibilities available for us to receive a matching grant based on the donations made on our page. We also wish to remind our supporters that,Globalgiving is able to provide tax receipts for donations made in the US and UK. We thank you for your continued support.
With regards,
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