I am a social entrepreneur, cultural activist and filmmaker. My work focuses on behaviour change, social cohesion, and developing green entrepreneurial activities in South Africa.

Together with the Ubuntu Institute we are proposing to collaborate with a small NGO, Siyakhana, which has developed a mature food garden over the past four years in Johannesburg. They have been feeding local AIDS orphanages with the produce.

In collaboration with small scale solar and wind turbine suppliers, as well as an innovative water pump, we propose to develop a robust, sustainable food garden model that includes entrepreneurial training for youth in local townships and villages.

Gina Romeo
Colombia

Shyam Adhikari
Nepal

Since, the summit is a common platform of gathering energetic and visionary youths around the world, I want to learn as well as share my ideas on environment, energy and development. Our country Nepal is in the restructuring stage and roaming with numerous challenges. Amongst those challenges, unemployment is one of the major challenges consisted in youth. Because of that, the skilled and energetic youths are migrating to different countries seeking employment. As a result, we are suffering from brain draining. Hopefully, this summit will assist me to generate some replicable ideas to contribute in my nation.
Youth have huge potentiality of changing but there is the lacking of proper guidelines and vision. In case of me, through my organization we are going to organize Youth to Youth Cooperation Program (YYCP) in Nepal. I have proposed these ideas on my organization and the members of my organization are agreed too. Under this YYCP program, all employed youth (mainly) and interested youth will contribute some amount from their income and a fund will be established. There will be local ownership upon the fund and that fund will be mobilized on capacity and entrepreneurship promotion of youths.

Nkunyingi Muwanda
Uganda

I am a lawyer by profession and youth leader in Uganda. I sit on various youth committees as a leader and/or attorney. I have been involved in various youth work in Uganda and in all the five countries of East Africa. 

I want to share various experiences with other participants and as well show how legal and constitutional mechanisms have been used to undermine youth employment demands like experience when it come employment have left many youths out of job competitiveness.

Robert Kasenene
Tanzania

I am an open, fun and people loving, motivated and compassionate person. I love doing almost anything; the fun for me is in the experience, the things you learn and people you meet in the process.

I believe young people can make a significant contribution in economic growth should they have the structural, policy and resource opportunities. At the YES summit, I will have an opportunity to share our experiences in trying to contribute to enabling these opportunities for young people and learn from other participant's experiences on the same front.

We have been working with small scale youth income generating groups in Tanzania to help them better understand and improve their activities to better livelihood. We are now working to set up an incubation facility where groups of this nature can be able to develop their businesses, secure resources and markets, formalize their businesses to be eligible for financial services and have the relevant policy backing. Our idea is to enhance the economic contributions of youth micro-enterprises to national development.