ANNOUNCEMENT
TANZANIA YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMIT 2006
HOSTED BY CARETAKERS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
TANZANIA
Government Officials,,
Teachers,
Interested Individuals,
Students,
NGOs, CBOs, FBOs, CSOs, and Clubs / Groups
Business Companies
Universities, Colleges and Secondary Schools,
Young people from all corners of our planets,
Colleagues.
I front of me I se the future; Youth from schools, organizations, projects, clubs, groups and networks from many different parties with diverse cultures and different perspectives
I see humanity’s future and hope, with a huge responsibility for ensuring sustainability of our planet.
Dear friends, you are a generation facing ecological injustices, drastic climate change patterns and environmental racism and all forms of societies ills, yet you are determined to overcome.
Whether you come from a country shattered by poverty and disease or from a privileged wealthy country, you all have an obligation.
A moral obligation to ensure sustainable development without further threatening the existence of our planet, an obligation to root out actions that are slowly strangling Mother Earth by these actions are carried governments and industry, some with impunity.
TO YOUTH AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THERE CAN BE NO BETTER TIME ACT THAN NOW.
Tour presence to the coming conference will shows that you are a real caretakers of the environment, and will the beginning for you to act as called upon.
So what are we all about?
·Youth comprise about nearly 30% of the country population and therefore your participation in environmental decision-making is vital to the long-term success of the agenda 21 for change and development.
·Your involvement at all levels of decision-making is critical as it affects your lives today and has implications for your future.
·Youth possess the intellectual capability, enthusiasm, zeal and ability to mobilize support, which needs to be harnessed.
It is because of Real situation now and in the future that, who hold offices of responsibility and power, must in consultation with Youth do the following
1.Establish a process that allows you to speak to Government/s and to give input into our decisions.
2.Establish mechanisms that permit and ease your access to information.
3.And provide you with opportunities to present your views on the decisions you take.
4.Caretakers of the Environment International Tanzania (CEITA) have been established to address these things that I say we must do. Caretakers of the Environmental Tanzania has established a network of secondary schools and teachers who will think globally about environmental issues and then act locally on community projects.
5.To host annually conference for the purpose to exchange concerns, ideas, strategies and to work on joint environmental projects, thereby encouraging youth to view the earth as one interdependent environment and to work together to provide solutions to the identified problems.
Mwanza is honoured to be the first Region in Tanzania to host this annual meeting of great minds, the caretakers of tomorrow's world.
To realize this me let name the few things that youth have to move upon;
1.To enhance environmental awareness amongst young people
2.To build capacity amongst the youth around issues of environment and sustainable development by engaging in debates.
3.To provide a platform for youth to showcase to their peers their environmental attitudes and initiatives of best practices.
4.To provide a platform for cultural diversity, exchange of ideas, strategies across cultural borders.
5.To promote tourism
6.To provide inputs to the status report for the United Nations on Agenda 21.
7.To Strengthen the existing fora for networking on a global scale amongst youth.
I am particularly fascinated by the theme of this conference: “YES 2006: Youth for Sustainable Development"
Very topical, and relevant to the environmental conditions and times we live in and even more interesting, this theme has been divided into various sub-themes, which are:
1. * Poverty and agenda 21
2. * Sustainable cities
3. * Sustainable Industries
4. * Sustainable tourism
5. * Sustainable Nature Resource and energy
management
6. * Sustainable agriculture
7. * Equal opportunities of access to nature,
social, cultural.
Economic resources for all people on the
planet
8. * Sustainable transport
9. * Sustainable management of nature and cultural
heritage.
10. * Sustainable Education
11. * Sustainable Environment
This summit, one of the most important human get-togethers, will also be held in Tanzania, in Tanzania next Year 2006 .
And it is conferences like this that ensures that we are taught well..
This brings to mind a famous African proverb, which I am sure many of you know quite well:
" Treat our earth well for it was not given to us by our parents, It is lent to us by our children."
Thank You.
I hope to all of you in the Summit
Best Regards
Mutani D. Yangwe
President / Founder
Caretakers of the Environment International Tanzania
www.caretakers4all.tz.8m.com
www.orgsites.com/wa/caretakers-tanzania
30/10/2005
