Over the last 18 months I have participated in and searched a lot of Dr Yunus' and Sam Daley-Harris' goals and mapped support networks to empower Yes We Can Africa. Can you help collate resources on this in one thread? It would particularly help now for 2 reasons I am aware of;
1) Dr Yunus is inviting the world to connect up a youth ambassador 5000 network starting next month- it would be useful to have resource spaces that get yes we can youth ambassadors off to a fast start with a common set of information and ideally connections to collaboration projects
2) Friends of Dr Yunus are using last week's Presidential medal to try and brief all G8 leaders on yes we can opportunities with Africa and microcreditsummit Kenya plans taking on one notable connecting focus
If you are interested in other views of africa, by all means start other threads and I will refenerce them here- but I would like to get as clear a map as we can of what dr yunus and Sam Daley-Harris are planning so that we can then verify with both of them details at an next level of connecting projects to be more than the sum of their parts
Yunus 10 Downing Street Video
Yunus when giving mandela speech in july made a video inviting Fifa to celebrate end poverty as well as South Africa's world cup
Yunus has mentioned the first social business fund in Europe will make Africa one of its 2 priorities - environment being other
Yunus, Sam D-H , and Ingrid Munro started 2009 with a review of the best news of the decade. This was presented at JP Morgan. The opportunity to reveal Jamii bora as benchmark for scaling youth mobile and urban slum microcredit was celebrated
Sam D-H and Ingrid Munro celebrated announcement of Kenya Microcreditsummit 2010 by flying over to Madrid and signing up 2 intents with Queen Sofia:
1) She wants to support exchanges of knowledge across southern hemispehere with a particular focus on connecting Spanish speaking (building also on columbia mcs 09) that she can cheer on and African that Ingrid Munro networks can cheer on
2) She has signed up mardid to be world microcreditsummit host in 2011
I imagine there is lots more yes we can good news linking in for africa- can you help us connect it into one integrated open plan? Micro up is community sustainability's other way round system than global trickle down aid and I believe Africans have a transparency right to explore the differences and make a choice as to how to sustain progrtess towards millennial goals and other ways of uniting the race to end poverty. Their example can also inspite Yes We Can Americans and Yes We Can youth worldwide to collaborative network with the urgency that sustainability and humanity now requires.