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NEWS RELEASE
Monday, July 14, 2010
Contact Harare: International Contact:
Miss Chipo Mataure Fungai Alexander Mapondera
Cell: +263 912 402 617
Cell: +41 797 400 345
Email: c.mataure@sadc-youthforum.org Email: f.mapondera@sadc-youthforum.org
SADC Youth Forum 2010 Announces Volunteering
Partnership with the Joshua Foundation
HARARE--- SADC Youth Forum today announce the volunteering partnership with the Joshua Foundation. The
first official forum of its kind will be held in Harare, Zimbabwe at the Meikles Hotel on the 16th December under
the theme, ‘Youth Empowerment: Striving for Responsibility and Sustainability’.
The partnership sees the Joshua Foundation, a youth organization dedicated to volunteering activities in Harare,
Zimbabwe committees to spearhead the engagement of youths to be at the center of the SADC Youth Forum
2010 as volunteers.
About SADC Youth Forum (www.sadc-youthforum.org)
The SADC Youth Forum is a Non-Profit Organization whose platform is to bring together youths from across the
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in advocating for and developing sustainable youth
development strategies and initiatives. The SADC Youth Forum is driven by youth organizations and individuals
from the member states. The SADC Youth Forum with its consensus based principles, embraces the diversity of
youths and youth development entities in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region but also
focuses on the common principles of unity and innovation in search of a common goal for youth development
across the region.
About the Joshua Foundation
The Joshua Foundation is a Zimbabwe registered Trust under the hospice of the Trinity Methodist Youths
working with orphans and children from impoverished backgrounds.
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