The webinar on July 16th 2021, will be held on Zoom with a general theme of ‘Deeds Not Words: Leading Social Change.’ Its objectives are to encourage the youth to host successful young men and women leading change across various sectors and communities in Africa, inspire the youths and highlight a simple process for identifying, developing, and harnessing their skills and financial resources towards driving social change through stories/insights shared by the facilitators on their individual journeys.
The Executive Director of The Youth Café, Willice Onyango is one of the speakers on the panel and he will speak during the break out session themed Changing Your World Through SDG Micro-Projects. This session will uncover the crucial role of young people in localizing and actualizing the SDGs by identifying certain social ills in alignment with one or more SDGs and addressing them as micro-projects on a local, national, or international scale.
From our perspective at The Youth Café as a unique youth-led organization, since our founding in the year 2012, we strive to enrich the lives of young people by modelling and advancing youth-led and right-based approaches for fostering community resilience, achieving sustainable development, attaining an equitable society, proposing innovative solutions, driving social progress, and inspiring transformative change by utilizing innovative research, policy, and advocacy actions. Digital spaces have allowed us to connect to people from all over the world and view things from a number of perspectives, becoming a global bridge builder in the process. The pandemic has forced humans to break from the past and reimagine the world anew. We have had the time to reflect on policies and have plenty of conversations and have identified what works and what doesn’t. It is now time to take the next step, and this we believe can be done by harnessing our networks and coming together to design and implement programs through volunteering and internships. We have learnt over time that sustainable solutions lie within the targeted beneficiaries as end users. This is why we are thrilled to explore what we can achieve through our collaboration on the Youth Day of Service.