Here’s an opportunity for YOU(th) to be part of a global campaign to explore young people’s role in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) crisis! In

Here’s an opportunity for YOU(th) to be part of a global campaign to explore young people’s role in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) crisis! Investigate. Reflect.Share & show your solidarity for young people at the centre of social change in MENA!
What can YOU(th) learn from young people who played a part in the MENA crisis? How can YOU(th) take these lessons and apply it in your situation? Now is the chance to find out! Be a ‘MENA Meet’ Facilitator and hold ‘MENA Meets’ with young people to answer up to 9 questions.

Graffiti in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. ©Maggie Osama
Amnesty International with APYN wants YOU to be a ‘MENA Meet’ Facilitator from May 28 to June 30!
What’s the issue?
The world has seen public uprisings sweep across the MENA region including in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, demanding political, social and economic and human rights change. Beginning with the death of one young Tunisian, the role of young people has been widely recognized as significant agents of change in these events, as they demand the right to shape the future of their countries for the better and spread the message of liberty and free speech across their communities, towns, districts and over the internet to the entire world.
What’s a MENA Meet?
A MENA Meet is a chance for you and your friends to discuss what you can learn from young people’s involvement in change in MENA.
It’s easy – we will give you a facilitation kit with instructions, tips, and a list of questions. Just grab a few friends for coffee or during lunch and answer up to 9 questions. Then you can easily share your reflections through a simple and quick reporting process.
Everyone who signs up will receive a facilitation kit. And everyone who facilitates a MENA Meet and reports back to APYN will receive a certificate!
What will we do with your answers?
We will collate the key points you report back to us from conversations all around the world and make an Action Guide that we will share. The action guide will have top recommendations, lessons, strategies and tactics for the role of young people in large-scale social change, inspired by lessons from the MENA region coming out of these global dialogs.
What do YOU(th) have to do?
1. Sign up and we will send you a facilitation kit
2. Hold your MENA Meet – make sure you have on record what everyone says. You need to hold your MENA Meet by June 30, 2011.
3. Submit your reflections and feedback through our simple and quick reporting process by July 15, 2011 – this is important so your views can be included!
4. You will receive a certificate for facilitating a MENA Meet! (But, even better – you can demonstrate your solidarity with YOU(th) in MENA region in their ongoing work to defend human rights. )