They asked us to circulate this:

As one of the benefits of being a member of the A Ganar Alliance, I am happy to share with you this wonderful opportunity.   For several months we have been in talks with leaders of the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace regarding their YOUTH LEADERSHIP CAMP that will be held in Florida in June 2014.   Finally, the application process is open.

Please see the message below and the two attachments.   As noted in the participant criteria, youth applicants should be:

•             The participants should be from the age of 18-25.

•             Focus for the camps will be

Berlin, Germany: camp is on youth from English speaking Sub-Saharan and Northern African countries and the Middle East,

Florida, USA: the focus will be South America, Central America, Caribbean and the U.S.A.

Gwangju, Republic of Korea: will be focused on youth from Asia (from Iran, Indian Sub-continent, South East Asia, Central Asia, Far East, China and Oceana / Pacific).

•             They should be currently volunteering or working in the sport for development field and involved with community programmes.

•             The participant should have a leadership role within their sport for development organization.

•             Since one of the objectives of the camp is to share best practices and experiences from the field, we are looking for young people with great social skills who would be ready to present and share their work in public.

•             Most importantly we are looking for participants who are motivated and dedicated to work in the field of sport for development and peace, bringing innovative ideas into their programmes and to this field.

•             Since the official language of the camps is English, it is essential that the candidate has excellent conversational skills in English.

•             There is strength in diversity and therefore we encourage persons with disabilities, people from different cultural backgrounds, with different experiences to come together to teach each other and to learn from one another.

•             Gender equality is very important to us so we will be looking at having a minimum of 50% female participation.

Below they say that up to 4 applicants per organization.  I want us to consider each country’s A Ganar program as a separate organization so that we have many many more youth apply.

If you have youth who will apply, please let me know so that I can notify my contacts and try to advocate on their behalf.    They are really interested in getting youth from disadvantaged backgrounds and I believe that having A Ganar youth participate will greatly enhance the quality of the program.

Let me know if you have any questions and please do apply.  This is a wonderful opportunity.

And if we get some youth into the program, we can hopefully open some slots for A Ganar coordinators and facilitators to serve as trainers, co-trainers and interpreters.

Partners of the Americas

www.partners.net

www.aganar.org

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