The Youth Ambassador for Harmony Yannick Tona Trip to Huye

Yannick Tona visited Huye District from 24 to 26/11/2010

Yannick Tona Youth Ambassador for harmony last week made a 3days visit in Huye District-South Province of Rwanda from 24 to 26/11/2010 for preparing the International Day of Volunteerism which will be celebrated on 05/12/2010 in south province of Rwanda. He arrive on Wednesday where he meet the Coordinator in change of youth ,culture and Sport in Huye District and Discus about the mobilization for the event of 05/12/2010,after their meeting he meet also the coordinators in change of forest, environment ,mines and water to discus the availability of tree is which will be plated. On secondary day he visited the site where the trees will be planted after also He meet Miss 2007 of National University of Butare and Rwanda Youth Delegate to New York 2009 Carnie Urusalo disusing how she can help to organize the event. In the Evening he had an officially dine with Coordinator of Youth, Culture and Sport Claire in Huye, Coordinator in change of water and environment in Huye Martin , coordinator in change of forest and mine in Huye Jacqueline, Person in change of Students at National University of Rwanda and Yves one of the leader of the Youth Association in Huye. The trip ended on Friday Morning after speaking to more than 500 youth who are in Intorero Camp in Huye where he encourage them to work had for their future and the country

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been active in environmental and social justice work.She was twelve years old when she gave this speech, and she received a standing ovation. Now 27, Cullis-Suzuki spearheads The SkyFish Project and continues to speak to schools and corporations, and at many conferences and international meetings. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia


Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. - The Environmental Children's Organisation.


We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make a difference:
Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future.

Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come.

I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard.

I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. We cannot afford to be not heard.

I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it.

I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear about animals and plants going exinct every day -- vanishing forever.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterfilies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?

All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!


You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.
You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream.
You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert.
If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or poiticians - but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles - and all of you are somebody's child.

I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all share the same air, water and soil -- borders and governments will never change that.

I'm only a child yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel.

In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.

In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter -- we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.

Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. And this is what one child told us: "I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection."

If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who have everyting still so greedy?

I can't stop thinking that these children are my age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born, that I could be one of those children living in the Favellas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India.

I'm only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this earth would be!

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world. You teach us:

not to fight with others,
to work things out,
to respect others,
to clean up our mess,
not to hurt other creatures
to share - not be greedy.
Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?

Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're doing this for -- we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying "everyting's going to be alright" , "we're doing the best we can" and "it's not the end of the world".

But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My father always says "You are what you do, not what you say."

Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening.

A Powefull Message

Please Check this on youtube (The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes) and you life will not be the same.

Election en Cote d' Ivoire

Je félicite nos frères et sœurs Ivoires pour leur participation vers la démocrasi dans les élections faites hier le 31 octobre 2010 en paix après dix ans. Les élections en cote d’ivoire n’a pas seulement l’intérêt aux ivoires mais tout l Afrique et le monde. Nos souhaitons que le peuple ivoires vie en paix encore et J’ les encourage de ses réunir pour construire encore leur pays, un pays merveille. J’espère que la commission électorale va faire son travail en transparence et que tous les candidas respecterons les résulta. Je vous félicite encore
Que Dieu bénisse la cote Ivoire
Yannick Tona
Youth Ambassador For Harmony