Global Vision and Canada Youth Alliance

This week we had a very interesting presentation from Daichi Ishikawa and other members of Youth Alliance - Millie, Andrea and Anton.  These amazing young people are working on a trade mission that this year will go to Malaysia.  They act as Ambassadors and are looking for partners that need information or contacts in Malaysia.  Global Vision funds part of their trip and the partners they recruit pay the balance.  The partners give the youth a mandate that they must deliver on when back in Canada.  If the partner is a mining company they may want information on the current political situation in the country.  If the partner is education based then the youth may travel to remote areas of the country.  This is an excellent way for these youth to learn things they didn't learn in the classroom. As well they will start relationships that will last in the future as they have careers. They are also working with Joyce Murray to set up a youth advisory board to get youth involved with politics.  A new project is to establish ambassadors in the 308 political ridings in Canada.  Now that is networking!