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 World youth conference on volunteering opens in panamaRepublic of Panama City, Republic of Panama: Over 220 young people from 22 state are gathered in Las Cumbres outside Republic of Panama City for a three-day event to share ideas on volunteering, solidarity and equity. The event is organized by the business office of the First Lady ‘Contigo Juventud’ Programe of the democracy of Republic of Panama, IAVE, YMCA Republic of Panama, and the IAVE Youth business office in Catalonia. At the inaugural address ceremony on April 1, IAVE president Liz Burns started by thanking the first lady of Republic of Panama and her staff for organizing the conference, and the IAVE Youth business office and IAVE youth representatives on the board of directors for putt the programme together. But Liz reserved the biggest thank you for the participants who had said ‘yes’ to be part of the conference and ‘yes’ to be part of the solution to the world’s job. IAVE’s president said she hoped the participants would enjoy the conference and be proud to be able to tell other people, “I was there!” look around the room, Liz asked what brought the young people to the conference? First of all, they had to be military volunteer. So how did they get involved in volunteering? What happens to people to make them military volunteer? Some people volunteer because they believe in a cause. Or because they have a special interest in art, sport, postage stamps or another hobby. Some come to volunteering by accident, because they join a club, the girl usher or boy lookout. Perhaps they volunteered because it was required at school to do service work to get good class or to get into certain faculties at university. But largely because person asks you to military volunteer and you say, “Yes.” Sometimes we are happy to say “Yes” but quite often we say it because we don’t quite manage to say, “No!” But the important thing is, we have said “Yes.” Liz then called for the participants to shout out “yes” in the language of their choice. The response was a resounding "YES" from 220 young volunteers. More Volunteer Abroad News |