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West Africa Sub Regional Training Session 2016

Within the framework of taking care of the set of thematic focus of Protection our Common Home, and its strategic plan. IYCS Africa organized a sub-regional training session of national leaders of West Africa YCS National movements with the theme: “Protecting our Common Home: Students in Africa taking Action” in Conakry, Guinea from the 4th – 10th December 2016. The training session aimed also at bringing an effective response as well as the commitment of the youth in the environment protection because searching for solutions must be accompanied by concrete actions to change mindsets and behaviors. Having the youth at the center of such response is one way of obtaining satisfactory results and ensuring actions undertaken will be continuous.

A total of 46 YCS national leaders from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo participated in the session.

The general objective of the session aimed at raising the awareness of the society on the necessity of having an Echo-citizen behavior through the implementation of the Encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ as a moral and ethical guide to human action in order to contribute to environment protection.

The objectives aimed at the following results:

  • Train 50 national leaders to lead a sub-regional and National campaigns on environment protection
  • Planting 50 trees to contribute to the restoration of the natural landscape of Guinea
  • Advocate through environmental march for decision makers to vote for and respect laws on environment protection

Tree Planting and Environment March

After diagnosing the situation that answered to stages SEE, JUDGE and ACT of our methodology; the action stage was marked by the reforestation done at the COYAH orphanage followed by the march and the submission of the memorandum to the ministry in charge of environment of the Republic of Guinea where we were received by the Environment Minister herself.

However, to ensure continuity of the action, all the National Movements (12 Countries) represented drafted plan of actions that they are going to implement in their respective Countries.

West Africa Sub Regional Training Session 2016

West Africa Sub Regional Training Session 2016

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The 2018 Southern Africa Training of Trainers Session was organized by the IYCS Africa Coordination in collaboration with Zimbabwe YCS held in Harare, from 3rd – 8th April 2018. The Training Session was conducted on the theme: ‘Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development: Students in Africa Taking Action ’. A total of30YCS Leaders, Chaplains and Animators from Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe participated in this training session. The Objectives of the session were: - To empower YCS Leaders, Chaplains and Animators from various National Movements in the region to take leadership action towards promoting peaceful and inclusive societies. - To better understand leadership and specific roles of youth in promoting sustainable development in their communities, - To promote better understanding of Democratic Citizenship from global perspective, - To strengthen and improve YCS Leadership and Structure in the region. The training session was a great opportunity to IYCS Africa Coordination Team to share with the national leaders the involvement of the movement in promoting Sustainable Development in the society through advocating for peace, justice, and inclusion among others. The training focused on building capacity of the national leaders on several topics relating to their society such as; students’ reality in the world today and the challenges to leadership; Relevance of the Catholic Social Doctrine for Leadership today; YCS Leadership, YCS Structure & Team Work; Roles of young people in promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Community Action (Work of Charity); Exposure Visits/ dialogue with various stakeholders and selected local authorities at Zimbabwe National Parliament. As outcome of the session, participants were able to better understand the meaning of Democracy and its derivatives like peace, justice, effective, accountable, inclusive institutions, and sustainable development.
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