Vision
In an effort to bring a Clinton Global University Initiative meeting in Africa in 2015, we will be the catalyst mobilizing universities and high school students across Kenya and Africa to make differences in their communities by making and implementing commitments to action.
Mission
The mission is to inspire, motivate and help African students make commitments to make differences in their communities. This will help develop the next generation of Young African leaders who are, creative thinkers, socially engaged and impacting lives positively in their communities.
Vision 2015: Bringing Annual Clinton Global University Initiative Meeting to Africa
President Clinton with some of the CGIU Members.
This is an African-students led initiative to bring a Clinton Global University Initiative meeting in Africa in 2015. While attending a special luncheon with President Clinton at UC San Diego, we felt so inspired and promised to work towards hosting a CGIU meeting in Africa. We are committed to making this happen. As citizens of Africa and members of CGIU family we want to take the lead to inspire, motivate and help African students to make commitments to make differences in their communities.
"Today's generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world."- President Bill Clinton
Today's generation of young African people holds the potential to transform Africa; Rise up, and make a difference."-Esther Ngumbi & Scevar Swaro
About the Initiative
This is an African- students led initiative to bring a Clinton Global University Initiative meeting in Africa in 2015. While attending a special luncheon with President Clinton at UC San Diego, we felt so inspired and promised to work towards hosting a CGIU meeting in Africa. We are committed to making this happen. As citizens of Africa and members of CGIU family we want to take the lead to inspire, motivate and help African students make commitments to make differences in their communities. We want African students to participate in uplifting the livelihoods of the people in their communities. Therefore all commitments made by participants have to be community focused, or otherwise implemented and bring a measurable change in the community. We are building this effort based upon successful model of the Clinton Global University Initiative that brings together students from all the 50 States and around the world to take action on global challenges. Each year, we will encourage University and High School students to make Commitments to Action to make a difference in CGIU five Focus Areas: Education, Environment & Climate Change, Peace & Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Health. Throughout the year, students are encouraged to develop Commitments to Action. Commitments to Action are new, specific, and measurable initiatives that address social or environmental challenges on campuses, and in communities. Varying in scope and duration, many commitments are the result of new and diverse partnerships between students, universities, nonprofits, and national youth organizations, with members combining efforts to expand the impact of new ideas. We are targeting to have 1500 commitments made by 2015.
CGIU Guidelines
For guidelines on how to start and run your CGIU commitments, download the pdf file on the right. It has most of the important information to get you going!
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“We have come a long way from ignorance to deep insight, from fear to courage and from the streets to Parliament. We moved from self to others, from ‘my issue' to 'our issues', from home to communities, from national level to global. Now we embrace the concepts of our common home and future.” - Prof. Wangari Mathai
If you are interested in joining the initiative and making your commitments, visit the Clinton Global Initiative University website today and have a look at work thousands of young people are doing around the world. The link to the website is here below. Hit it now to be redirected to the site!
