African Youth Conference

The HORN OF AFRICA YOUTH AGENCY OF AUSTRALIA (HAYAA) would like to invite you to come and have your voices heard by telling us about the issues that matter to you, such as family, employment, policing, discrimination etc. Help make a difference in changing your future.

The Conference will be held over two days, Saturday the 27th and Sunday 28th of November. Registration and morning tea is from 10:30am. The Conference will begin at 11am and will finish at 3:30pm on Sunday.

On Saturday there will be free accommodation, dinner and entertainment by The Kram Boys

IF YOU ARE AN AFRICAN BETWEEN 18-25, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

The Conference will be held at the Y-Hotel, 5 - 11 Wentworth Ave, Sydney NSW 2000 located opposite Hyde Park, 10 minutes walk from Darling Harbour.

Places are limited so If you would like to participate please contact our office as soon as possible on 87624200 or email the Project Coordinators Faduma Geddi at geddi.faduma@gmail.com or Georgina Clark at gprclark@gmail.com

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On the 3rd September 2010, we had the opportunity to share with the high school students from Mercy`s college. It was an interesting interactive session that included a presentation on social injustice in the developing country, Uganda. The students were drawn by the level of discrimination against women in most parts of Africa.

Welcome to This Life page!!

Around the world, people are living under different type of situations which compromises their freedom, space, and other horizons of their lives yet they have never had the chance to talk about it. This Life-The Untold Story, is a project designed to create an opportunity for people with unique traumatic experiences in their lives, which they want to share.Meanwhile, some people are forced to leave their homes, families, friends, and land; others do experience difficult circumstances even within their own homes, with friends, families and within their own countries. This Life-The Untold Story; is creating a platform to provide an opportunity for these kinds of experiences to be shared.

This Life, an initiative by Mercy Akongo, is inspired by her own experiences of serving in her community, the Karamoja region, one of the most marginalized region of Uganda. Mercy also had the opportunity to work in the war torn region of northern Uganda through an international humanitarian organization called Cooperazione Internationale (COOPI) where she worked with people who have suffered and experienced fear and terror for over 20 years. By working directly with victims and survivors of war within the internally Displaced Person’s Camp and the rural communities, she came face to face with traumatic experiences that created a burden in her heart to think beyond herself to play a role in helping the poor who are suffering in Africa and elsewhere in the World. This Life-The Untold Story, is her step in helping the world`s poorest by creating opportunities for the helpless, whose stories have never been told.

Feel free to participate and contribute in making a difference in the lives of people who need it.

Thank you.

Yours truly;

Margaret Mercy Akongo
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Founder
This Life Foundation.