Things have been moving quickly in the IGE ever since arriving at the Great Rift Valley lodge! Us delegates have been thrown into workshops and youth rep elections galore! We have been running around, and have learnt alot! Workshops included governance, communication, policy, training, research and fundraising.
We were then thrown into youth rep elections and were successful in getting our fellow Canadian delegate, Al-Karim Khimji elected to the International Council as a youth representative! Yay a seat for Canada! Since the elections, the delegation has been furiously working on putting
together workshops for the Youth Forum. I was apart of the workshop entitled: "Award Holder Associations - It's EEEasy for Each One to Reach One". I believe the workshop was an success in that we had amazing audience participation, and everyone who took the workshop thoroughly enjoyed out
content and the enthousiasm in which we delivered it!
Other activities that we have participated in, include the service projects, and a game drive! For the service project, I went with a group of other delegates to Empash Primary school, and there, we helped to re-concrete two classroom floors and repainted another two! We also planted olive trees and
had them named after each delegate, and the country with which we belong.
For our game drive, we left at 5 to see the big 5! Traveling to Lake Nakuru, we unfortunately were stuck in our massive greyhound buses and all of the wildebeasts and monkeys were inside the bus! Some people didn't seem to think that other people wanted to see outside the buys windows as well. I
did end up seeing a rhino though, so I have now seen 3 of the Big 5. I guess this just means that I will have to come back to Africa for a real/better/longer safari!
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