Ubuntu partners have released a joint statement following announcement of the Awards earlier today which states:
“Today we are celebrating the contribution of young volunteers and the contribution that they make to development, to their own education, to the fostering of relations between Africa and Europe, and something close to my heart, to the development of [...]
Ján Figel’, the European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, has congratulated winner of the Ubuntu International Youth Voluntaruy Service Award 2009, with the following statement:
“I congratulate the winners of the Ubuntu International Voluntary Service Award 2009. They exemplify all that is positive about volunteering: the individual benefits from the experience, the [...]
Download Cebo Communication’s Press Release on the winners of the awards, dated 30th September 2009.
We are pleased to announce that Kumi Naidoo will present the Ubuntu Awards 2009 to winners at the Ubuntu International Youth Voluntary Service Award Ceremony in Johannesburg.
Kumi has a long history of involvement in the non-governmental sector, having served previously as founding Executive Director of the South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), Executive Director of the [...]
Minutes of the conference “International Voluntary Service as a Tool for Development Education” are now available to download.
These minutes give an overview of the discussions which took place, in particular providing much needed perspective on the differing African and European dimensions to development education.
Download the minutes.
Arrangements are now in place for the final Ubuntu Award Ceremony!
Date: 30th September 2009
Time: 15:30 – 18:00
Venue: The Apartheid Museum, Northern Parkway and Gold Reef Road, Ormonde, Johannesburg
Keynote speaker: Kumi Naidoo (Kumi Naidoo is the newly appointed Executive Director of Greenpeace Internationa, and serves as Co-Chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and [...]
