Dear Colleague,

African Youth Leadership Network:

Become a Partner University

Together with our Partner Universities we have created the African Youth Leadership Network. Our Partner Universities are those who value the importance of unique educational opportunities for young people to travel, learn about foreign perceptions and cultures, and broaden their horizons by challenging themselves in activities and discussions with other international students.

The purpose of the IYLN is to promote international conferences and projects, such as International Youth Leadership Africa and the International Youth Leadership Conference, creating a forum in which students can come together to discuss and promote such projects and organize funding for them.

Universities and people like you are crucial to the success of the AYLN and to CCI. We would like to establish a working relationship in which your university would become a partner university.

Partner universities are intended to perform the following role:

- Help to promote the IYLA conference
- Establish a contact person to liaison with CCI to help facilitate student arrangements with CCI related projects
- Help to seek sponsorship for students to attend the IYLA conference.

In return partner universities will receive the following benefits:

- Become a member of the AYLN, an inter-connected net work of universities, students and sponsors
- Receive a 10% discount per student off the conference fees for groups of 5 or more.

Promote your university and your international student's program on the official AYLN website. Your university’s logo will be placed on the sponsors’ page of the IYLA website and marketing materials and your involvement will be included in press releases we send to your local media.

- Work together closely with CCI to establish local sponsors to support youth projects.
- Strengthen your universities involvement in important international youth initiatives.

We would also like to inform interested lecturers from universities all around the world about the IYLA Shadow Conference, for educators. This forum will work alongside the one that student delegates will experience with all of the same activities. Additionally, educators will have the opportunity to engage with each other and to get greater details into how to run the simulations and activities conducted at the conference to use back in their own classrooms. They too will get to follow along as the participants work on the eight threads that will be prominent during the conference, important issues facing the continent today. Please contact us if you would like any further information.

We hope that you will be interested in becoming involved in the AYLN and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

M. Ngcwabe Maso Ngcwabe African Regional Education Coordinator, Civic Concepts International 1st International Youth Leadership Africa, January 2007 Phone: +27 769 230 022 Email: ngcwabe@civicconcepts.org