The first Global Youth Meeting on a Sustainable Future, Bari-Italy, 19th-21st January 2010

The Italian Government, the Apulia Regional Government and the National Agency for Youth in Italy of the European Youth in Action Program organised the first NMC World Youth Meeting for a Sustainable Future in collaboration with Inter-American Development Bank, ILO, UNESCO and UN-HABITAT among others. On 19, 20 and 21 January 2010, over a thousand young people met in Bari, Italy, to discuss the challenges of sustainable environmental, social and economic development at both local and global level with thought leaders from a range of cultural backgrounds and experience. 

The TUCCAN leader is one of the 5 delegates from Nigeria to participate in this first World Young Leaders Meeting in Bari. The three days meeting was a urge success, participants had the opportunity to deliberate on various issues at the centre stage of global development such as climate change, women development, girl child empowerment, child labour, poverty in Africa etc. The TUCCAN leader led various group discussions on women empowerment and child labour.

She is also one of the 5 young leader representatives that summed up the three days meeting and made the Bari declaration on the last day of the meeting. The meeting was covered by both the National and International media.

The African delegates from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Cote d’ivoire, South Africa, and Cameroon had the opportunity to discuss various challenges facing the African Continent and what the youth leaders could do to address the problems especially as it relate to poverty and Africa development.