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| "Many governments are far behind" - An Interview with Erik T. Wedershoven Part II |
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Do you know of other youth delegates doing the same kind of work, is that a kind of mission you all have?
As far as I know I was the only youth delegate who was working with the UN Youth Program on getting more youth delegates. But I know for example that the youth delegate of last year from LSU, the Swedish National Youth Council, worked on lobbying for more youth delegates from the South and they got their government to sponsor a youth delegate from Ghana.
But I had an advantage, I was elected last year 21st of October, so I had time, but other youth delegates were only elected in April, May or June. So I can see that it’s difficult to do things like that. And for me it was really hard, too, to keep up with things and I had to sacrifice a lot. You miss so many resources. I just wasn’t able to work 24/7 as a youth delegate, because I had to work in a grocery store to pay for my train tickets. It’s just that simple. And it’s a problem for youth from all over the place - try from Bangladesh to become a youth delegate and get your government pay your ticket to New York.
Another thing - I was trying to do this - is to look for funds in The Netherlands and in Western Europe to support youth delegates from the South, but unfortunately, they didn’t want to support me. Big organizations, Embassies, Ministries they can send their people, but try to send youth…
But you are doing it for free because its fun, because it’s good when you get your goals, if, if you succeed in getting a youth delegate from Jordan, or one from Bangladesh, if you succeed to get your government to sponsor two youth delegate from the south - that’s great, it feels good. That’s what you are doing it for. And you learn a lot and learning is fun.
Is there anything you want to add, anything you want to tell the young people that are reading this interview?
You don’t have to start from scratch. For example, on the TakingITGlobal website there is so much information on the MDGs, how you can advocate, how you can lobby for things, there are whole toolkits on the TakingITGlobal site and on the un.org/youth website. There is so much you can do. You can get in contact with youth delegates from the past, for example you can get in contact with me. I just realized it’s so important to be there when to influence policies and you just have to show that you can be part of that. And I don’t know, I’m just really looking forward to have you write the interview down.
Well, I want to thank you so much for taking the time for this interview. I know you are extremely busy this week with all the preparations for the General Assembly next week, so I really appreciate it and it has been a very interesting interview for me.
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holas max albert remon torres | Oct 6th, 2005
cool how can i do the same ???????????
advice/internship/volunteering elizabeth kibalama | Feb 14th, 2006
hallo Seel
I just read ur report. Its nice to hear a youth working so hard. Now i need your expert advice. I have a degree in development economics but lack experience. I wish to work in development/international cooperation to give me a chance to grow in the field i love dearly. I have sent many CV and open applications to no avail to Uk, Netherlands and even some in Africa. Could you help by advicing? elizabeth (netherlands)
MEDDAHI meddahi | Jun 6th, 2008
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05/06/2008 .. المتنبي الصغير
شعرت بوحـــدةٍ ثقلت جروح
لقـد تــركــت أنــيــستها تروح
قد امتلأت بكــربـــتها صُنوف
من الحـزن قـد اجتمعت تبــوح
إذا خلا الفــــــؤاد من الغرام
العفيف فهـلْ سيقتحم الطََّموح
وقلبه خـــاليٌّ من كل شوقٍ
كما الأزهــــــار عـــطـرها يفوح
وما؟ الدنـــيا بغـــير حبيبةٍ قد
تشــع بحــــــــبها الـذي يسيح
وما الحــــــياة؟ دون محبّةٍ قد
سمت بصــــفـائها فــلها جموح
ترى ذا العشـق مُضطربا فبعد
لكانـــتـه الــتي لـحـــنت يصيح
بفُصحــــــــته التي ملأت قلوبا
بوهــــــج محـــبّةٍ كــادت تنوح
إذا ما فـرّت الغــــــــــزلان منا
فحــبـنا الــــذي لـــمح كسيح
إذا انقشع الظلام سمعت ديك
المبـــادرة الــــذي نادى يصيح
إذا بضيائـه يـــبـــــــدو صباح
أشعــــــــــــته لقد فلتت تلوح
إذا بالكائـــنـات جمـــــيعها قد
بدا انشـــراحـها نزحت فسيح
لقد مكثت تُـــؤانسني زمانا
فبـــعد دُنـــــــــوّها بعُدتْ تريح
نأت بمحــــــبّةٍ قــد عذّبتني
أنا الآن بكــــــربــــــــــتها أبوح
نأتْ بأنيـــــــــنها تــلك الفتاة
وقلـــبها بــذكـــــــــرهم يصيح
لقد عشقت جوارحها التي لم
تكن قاصــــــدةً عـــشقا يُطيح
عناء محــــــــــبةٍ ثقُلتْ عليها
فصار غــــرامُها أبـــــــدا ينوح
تقول بحسرةٍ وفـــــــؤادها قد
تراكمتْ مواجــــــــــــعه جروح
ودمع عيـــونها يجــــري كنهر
الفرات لقد تدفــــقت السطوح
أيا زوجـــــــــــي قد أبدلتنا يا
فــتى أبـــــدا بـشــــعـرٍ مبروح
فقلتُ لها دعي أمــري فإني
فتى يمشي وفي قلبي جُروح
لأنثرَ عِبـْـق أزهــــارِ الشمال
التي أسعــــدت القلـبَ صحيح
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