Youth delegation travels to Burundi
January 23, 2009
By pwrdf
As the justgeneration.ca facilitator for The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, I will be traveling with three members of the Youth Council to Bujumbura, Burundi from February 9-24, 2009.
The delegation will be attending the final day of the Africa Round Table, a gathering of PWRDF partners in the Africa region, and then traveling to Bujumbura to spend a week learning about the work of PWRDF partners and specifically that of young Anglicans in the Diocese. Together we will spend a few days working on a plan to build stronger relationships between youth in Bujumbura and Canada.
justgeneration.ca and the Diocese of Bujumbura justgeneration.ca have been talking for more than a year about the possibility of building this connection between youth groups. The Diocese of Bujumbura has been a PWRDF partner since 1992, and our work together involves health, primarily in HIV and AIDS, gender issues, and sustainable development.
You can read more about this trip as it unfolds on the PWRDF blog, which can be found at http://pwrdfblog.livejournal.com. Visit http://www.justgeneration.ca or the blog regularly to hear more about what’s going on with this delegation!
Simon Chambers,
PWRDF justgeneration.ca facilitator
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