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Graça Machel urges youth movement to restore dignity of Africans
12:50 CAT | 22 Jul 2018
Photo Courtesy: Graça Machel Trust Twitter , @G_MachelTrust
Graca Machel urged the group, dominated by young women to always display courage, self respect and humility.
The two-day African Youth Summit held in Pretoria has ended with delegates resolving to immediately form an African youth movement.
The idea of turning the summit into a movement was supported by the event organisers, Graca Machel and the Nelson Mandela Institute for Development.
In her closing remarks, Machel urged the African Youth movement to restore the dignity of Africans.
She says:” All the ideas which were discussed, some of them are already clear and you have adopted them. Even if you have adopted only 10% of the discussions, I would have been completely happy because history is built by one brick at a time. History is not built completed in two days.”
“You are privileged to have the space and this opportunity but please carry in your hearts that there are millions of your brothers and sisters who don’t live in dignity and that is your mission,” adds Machel.
“Standing on the shoulders of giants” session at #AYNSummit. The panel is made up of Prof. Wole Soyinka, Mrs. Machel, and Dr. Reuel Khoza #MadibaInYou #Madiba100 @G_MachelTrust @alueducation @judysikuza pic.twitter.com/Kx7UZRi39D
— MINDS (@MINDSAfrica) July 20, 2018
The inaugural African Youth Networks Summit took place at Freedom Park in Pretoria from Friday until Saturday.
Hosted by the Graca Machel Trust together with the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the event brought together youth leaders and networks from throughout the African continent, with a total of seventeen countries being represented.
Speaking on Friday to Clement Manyathela on The Midday Report, Graca Machel said the summit ws about bringing together more than 250 young people who represent networks, not individual organisations but networks.
“Networks of people who have been doing fantastic work in the continent, but were not connected, so the summit is to bring them together, get connected and we hope in these two days they are going to adopt their own vision, mission and the values around which they are going to work together to transform the continent of Africa.”
— Graca Machel, Graca Machel Trust
“To transform challenges into opportunities and to transform themselves in a way that they can lead and drive the processes of transformation.”
— Graca Machel, Graca Machel Trust
Excited to be attending #AYNSummit happening now at Freedom Park, Pretoria opening remarks by Mrs. https://t.co/gB1PnW1ZK5
— GracaMachelTrust (@G_MachelTrust) July 20, 2018
#AYNSummit Group sessions @alueducation #Mandela100 @MINDSAfrica pic.twitter.com/RNzF5sTfNz
— GracaMachelTrust (@G_MachelTrust) July 20, 2018
#AYNSummit “I want you to be courageous, interrogate the institutions, frameworks and cultures, do things that you believe are the best to build the Africa you want to live in,” Mrs. Machel @MINDSAfrica @alueducation pic.twitter.com/2PtLBvAven
— GracaMachelTrust (@G_MachelTrust) July 20, 2018
Source: SABC / 702 ZA
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