Adja Fatou Gaye, Local Youth
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Youth
Leadership in iEARN
As part of iEARN's democractic structure, all international
decision-making across the network is carried out by an
Assembly, made up of representatives from 27 of the iEARN
Centers. While most Centers in iEARN are geographically
determined, there are also Centers based on other consituencies/themes,
including iEARN Orillas, which has a special interest
in multilingual and anti-racist education, critical pedagogy,
and issues of equity, and iEARN Youth, made up of the
young people of iEARN. Each year, a different iEARN youth
member is elected by the youth to serve as the Youth Representative
on the Assembly.
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In 2003, Ahmed Gamal was elected as the International Youth
Representative, and in his year in office, developed a Local
Youth Representative Structure to encourage greater representation
and participation in decision-making among iEARN youth worldwide.
Below is an example of how youth in Egypt organized to ensure
effective local representation.
iEARN-Egypt Local Youth Representation
Each country in iEARN determines its own structure for supporting
teacher and youth involvement. Below is just one example, from
Egypt, of what shape this structure has taken.
Taken
from http://www.iearnegypt.org/students.php
1- Local Youth Representative
(LYR)
Description:
- Monitoring the work of the committees, receiving their
reports and raising them to the country coordinator (CC).
- Representing students' ideas and points of view and discussing
their needs and problems with the country coordinator.
- Helping the CC with contacting the students and finding
new active students to give them new opportunities to be
more active and creative.
- Work with the iEARN Youth Representative in the Assembly
to represent the ideas of Egyptian students.
2- Vice Local Youth Representative
Description:
- Helping the LYR with his/her duties.
- Acting as the LYR in case that the LYR is not available.
- Collecting reports and info from different committees
and reporting them to the LYR.
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| Students from Suriname Egypt
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3- Alumni Committee
Description:
- Facilitating the work of the GATE and activating its
role.
- Working with the GATE on having and agenda and an action
plan.
- Facilitating cooperation with other iEARN Alumni groups
internationally.
- Reporting different Alumni events and training programs
to the LYR.
- Organizing Alumni participation with iEARN Egypt and the
CC.
4- Outreach Committee
Description:
- Helping with the preparation and organization of logistics
of iEARN Egypt conferences and events.
- Contacting press and inviting them to iEARN Egypt events
and public figures.
- Preparing PR materials.
- Collecting articles, news and information concerning
iEARN Egypt from press and media. (Future & past).
- Working with the CC and teachers on choosing efficient
students to participate in different events.
- Reporting different events and conferences to the LYR.
- Creating new ideas for different new events according
to the need. (Seminars, recognition events, elebrations,..)
5- Projects Committee
Description:
- Helping students to have new creative ideas for their
projects.
- Applying the guidelines of the projects and following
up how they are carried out.
- Facilitating school-to-school cooperation locally and
internationally.
- Monitoring the students' participation on the forum.
- Developing a resource book for the projects.
- Defining the points of weakness in the students' work
and working with the professional development committee
on developing training programs for the students.
6- IT Committee
Description:
- Helping students to use IT in the projects.
- Work with the professional development committee and the
projects committee on developing IT training programs for
the students.
- Working with the CC on finding any possible training chances/opportunities
for students with other organizations and companies.
- Working with the outreach committee on the technical part
of the preparation for any conference or event.
7- Professional development
committee
Description:
- Working with different committees on organizing training
workshops for students.
- Preparing a caliber of good trainers from different governorates
to help in training programs in their cities in the future.
- Using the workshops done by students for the youth summit
to train iEARN students in the schools.
iEARN Egypt Students' Board
Term: January 04 - 1 st Oct 2004
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