{"id":1759,"date":"2018-12-26T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2018-12-26T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:22:32","slug":"ayc-at-inaugural-african-youth-networks-summit-pretoria-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/2018\/12\/26\/ayc-at-inaugural-african-youth-networks-summit-pretoria-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AYC at inaugural African Youth Networks Summit, Pretoria, July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust and the Mandela Institute for Development Studies celebrated the Mandela centenary by hosting the inaugural African Youth Networks Summit between 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0July, 2018 at Freedom Park in Pretoria. The event brought together over\u00a0<strong>200<\/strong>\u00a0representatives of youth networks, youth leaders, government, corporate and development partners from across Africa to connect young people to each other, identify successful and scalable youth initiatives and develop a platform for the cross-pollination of ideas to drive the youth agenda forward.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a0key highlights included participation in the summit of some continental icons such as Jay Naidoo, Wole Soyinka and Fred Swaniker who exchanged\u00a0 some wisdom through out the conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Natalie Sonia Mukundane<\/strong>, AYC Ag. Executive Chairperson, represented the AYC at the Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Find more about the Summit including the report from the following web links:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gracamacheltrust.org\/2018\/10\/02\/hosting-the-inaugural-african-youth-networks-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/minds-africa.org\/african-youth-networks-summit-launched-as-part-of-mandela-centenary-celebrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mandela Institute for Development Studies<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youthleadership.africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Youth Networks Movement<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust and the Mandela Institute for Development Studies celebrated the Mandela centenary by hosting the inaugural African Youth Networks Summit between 20th\u00a0and 21st\u00a0July, 2018 at Freedom Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}