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Ailao Club targets Savai'i
potential
21
October 2006
By Jasmine Netzler
Ailao Club Samoa is holding
workshops in Savai'i this weekend to teach youth
there how to knife dance.
The two-day workshop is being
held Falealupo-tai and Salailua. The training
is targeting youths ages 13 to 23, Club President
Lene Leota said.
UNESCO funds the workshops
under the Youth Visioning programme.
The programme is for young
people living in small islands to envision how
they would like to see their islands develop and
change over the coming decade and then work together
to implement their proposals and plans in their
islands.
Ailao Club is the first organization
to be sponsored under this programme.
The programme is supported
by many organizations at the national, regional
and inter-regional level.
Youth Visioning seeks to
build capacity among island youths to give a voice
in sustainable development matters and to make
positive changes at the local and national level.
The visioning is centered
on three themes that came out from the Small Islands
Voice Internet discussions in 2002-2003.
The themes are Life and Love
in islands - island lifestyles and cultures, My
Island Home - safeguarding island environments
and Money in my Pocket - economic and employment
opportunities.
-- This article appeared in The
Saturday Observer, Samoa
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