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World Youth Skills Day

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Post date July 11, 2015

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

On Wednesday 15^th July the world will celebrate the first World Youth Skills Day. “On 18th December 2014, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus, a resolution, spearheaded by Sri Lanka, declaring 15th July as the World Youth Skills Day. Sri Lanka initiated this resolution, with the assistance of the G77 & China, to highlight at a global level, the importance of youth skills development. The goal is to achieve better socio-economic conditions for today’s youth, including as a means of addressing the challenges of unemployment and under employment” (www.un.org).

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Towards a new Caribbean

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Post date May 17, 2015

Disruptive Thinking. Bold Action. Practical Outcomes! This was the tagline for the recent Forum on the future of the Caribbean (May 5–7). More than 400 persons attended the Forum which was co-hosted by UWI and T&T’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the UN, regional inter-governmental partners and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

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Empower youth by example

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Post date May 3, 2015

Today’s Gospel reminds me of the joy I saw on the faces of the many young persons – “branches” – who attended last week Saturday’s Catholic Youth Expo 2015 at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya. We should all take note of Archbishop Joseph Harris’ and Winston Garcia’s message that before we go out on mission, we must first have an encounter with Jesus and be ‘formed’ so that we can be true disciples of Christ.

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Engaging our youth to build our Democracy

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Post date September 13, 2014

“Democracy is fundamentally a ‘system’ and as such is a means and not an end. Its ‘moral’ value is not automatic, but depends on conformity to the moral law to which it, like every other form of human behaviour, must be subject: in other words, its morality depends on the morality of the ends which it pursues and of the means which it employs.”(Compendium on the Social Doctrine of the Church, No. 407)

Tomorrow, Monday September 15, the world will observe the UN International Day of Democracy (IDD). The theme this year is Engaging Young People on Democracy. Too often we adults underestimate and stifle the contribution that our young people can/wish to make to strengthen our democracies.

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Britain’s Youth 2000 – ‘A gateway back to God’

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Post date September 6, 2014

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI

Participants in this year’s Youth 2000 Walsingham Prayer Festival. Photo Youth 2000 Facebook page — Participants in this year’s Youth 2000 Walsingham Prayer Festival.
Photo Youth 2000 Facebook page

Dioceses around the world are developing strategies to support and encourage the faith journey of young people. I had the opportunity to speak to a group of young people in London who attended the annual Youth 2000 Walsingham Prayer Festival from August 21–25. The theme this year was The Journey.

About 1,000 young adults journeyed from various parts of the country to the outdoor Festival held near the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk. It included “international speakers, live music, workshops, discussions, prayer, sports, social times, evening entertainment and loads more”.

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