Young People’s Commission for Africa

The students use Gemini Plus technology that enables chat forums, e-mailing, video conferencing, and the design of web pages using images, sounds and videos. The software is designed to operate on even the most basic Internet links and computers.

The project encourages students aged 12–15 to identify the challenges that young people in Africa face, and to interact with the other schools, both in the UK and Africa to suggest solutions to these problems. The results of the overall project will be published on the website on June 16 2005.

Youth, Children.

“The project was set up by Plan UK because of a perceived gap in the discussions taking place in the ‘Commission for Africa’.”

The project organisers want the Commission to “accelerate progress towards a strong and prosperous Africa”, bringing together representatives from Africa and the G8 countries. However, young people are not included in their consultation so this project aims to address that omission.

Marie Staunton, Chief Executive of Plan UK said: “The Commissioners talk about children, but need to be talking to them. Children are the experts on being children, their priorities, safety, the environment and education must be addressed if African children are to have a future.”