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Un Crime Prevention Summit
Author: Sumeera Dawood
First-ever youth crime summit is held in South Africa, but is it all talk and no action?
We’re sitting in the ICC, Durban’s most prestigious, continental venue, sipping on freshly squeezed juice and sitting in an opulently decorated venue. A friend next to me whispers that she feels guilty talking about poverty and crime in the face of so much luxury. Youth from all over (Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Netherlands, Congo, etc) are here, and most of us are asking the same thing: “why spend so much making talking about crime when we can use that money to DO something about crime?”
The truth is: youth summits are necessary. Young people from different backgrounds and economic levels come together and actually talk about their situations and what they face on a daily basis. I have found that this does not necessarily happen during the talks and feedback sessions, but during lunch or tea breaks when people hang out and chill.
Yesterday someone asked for help about starting an awareness programme in Uganda. She wants to do something, anything, but doesn’t know how to get going. Around her were guys and chicks who knew how to start, who themselves have started informally.
Personally, I think the crime summit is a success because it makes great knowledge bases accessible to me, a 20-twenty something with no social development experience and hardly any contacts in the field. People running organisations meet up with others who can help with funding and general help.
During the Your City International Crime Prevention & Cities Summit, the Baobab team and the 20 winners of the competition are reporting live from the summit premises! Keep checking back for daily updates.
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