In November last year STI held their annual conference. One of the major events was the launching of STI's international youth forum (IYF). South Africa was privileged to be invited as a founding member of this organisation, with Luke Gregor from Cape Windjammers Education Trust being the representative.
At the conference the IYF drafted their mission statement:
The International Youth Forum aims to help Sail Training International fulfill its mission and meet its goals by bringing young people from the international sail training community together; working for youth by youth to provide fresh ideas for the future of sail training
Several Aims were established at the meeting, which are listed below:
- Engagement in the development of and a profile within the STI web site
- Collecting and posting NSTO youth activities on the site
- Collecting and posting exchange activities
- Establishing a real youth forum (a virtual place to meet and chat) and set up social networking media, facilitating exchange of programme ideas and activities.
- To organize and deliver two workshops for the Stavanger Conference in November
- To participate in a programme exit interview process, administered by NSTO youth leaders, the purpose, to assist in building a broad data base (sail trainees) and to offer insight into what youth are truly looking for in a sail training experience
- Representation on the Steering Committee charged with building Self-Assessment Tool Kits
- Building an IYF logo and designing a promotional T-Shirt for IYF led events
As the South African representative of STI's International Youth Forum I along with my fellow representatives will aim to achieve these goals
Luke Gregor
