Saturday, September 8, 2007


Dear YES family:

The dream has come true! Welcome to YES Alexandria 2007! Four years after that the YES Campaign was launched in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in 2002, we gather again in the same place for a mid-YES Campaign Forum with its leaders.

YES Alexandria Forum 2007 is possible thanks to the join efforts of the Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign, Inc., (USA) and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, (Egypt) and the Arab Reform Forum. We want particularly thank to Dr. Ismail Serageldin and his team at BA for his permanent support as a YES Campaign Committee member and host of this forum.

The YES 2007 as a mid-YES Campaign Forum has been planned to build and strengthen the capacity of the YES Country Networks, across the globe, to undertake in country youth employment projects and programs. The goal of the Forum will be to share good practices and foster synergies among the YES Country Networks.

The deliberations and activities at the Forum will centre around three identified sectors namely, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT); Integrated Rural Businesses; and Youth Employment and the Role of Social Entrepreneurship. We want to specially thank to YES Egypt for having prepared the toolkits in this three sectors which will help to build up the capacity of the YES networks on it.

We hope that you will enjoy these days with the YES family and that you will share with your peers as well as you will take advantage to exchange and learn from the experts, development practitioners, donors, government and business leaders that will also join us during the forum.

We celebrated worldwide the Youth International Day, last August 12th. As a contribution, we expect that this forum will renew the commitments of the YES family members and our partners, to build the core competence and the capacity of the young leaders to lead a youth employment movement across their countries.

In solidarity,


Poonam Ahluwalia