GFIC International Conference “Connecting Global Youth, Confronting Global Challenges” a Success!

GFIC’s international youth conference on development was held this year in Montreal, Canada at Concordia University, where the movement was originally founded in 2004.

The following is an excerpt from Concordia’s student newspaper, The Link:

“Africa needs more than lip service to rise into the 21st century. This view was put forward last Saturday and Sunday when over 300 delegates from around the world congregated in Concordia’s H-110 auditorium to show exactly how youth can stop talking–and start acting–during the second annual Global Forum on International Cooperation Conference.

‘We don’t want to be like every other forum that talks about these issues, we want to follow this up with action,’ said political science major Awel Uwihanganye, who is also director-general of the GFIC.

Conference delegates met with members of non-governmental organizations, learned about volunteer opportunities in Uganda and other parts of the African continent, and were given the opportunity to start local Forum on International Cooperation chapters at their universities–all in the name of bringing development to a continent that has been supporting the world’s largest colonial powers for centuries.

Panelists and speakers included Liberal MP Marlene Jennings, Uganda’s former deputy High Commissioner to India Nimisha J. Madhavani and Omar Aktouf, a management professor at HEC Montréal. Aktouf was also a candidate for the Union des Forces Progressives in the last provincial elections.

Concordia’s department of political science, the Concordia Student Union, and FIC Concordia were partners in the event.”

For the full article visit The Link’s website: http://thelink.concordia.ca/

For further coverage from the Daily Monitor, Uganda’s leading daily independent newspaper, visit their site: http://www.monitor.co.ug/