Raise youth voice with NEW leadership council

Last month, three of our youth council members got together to discuss how the council can begin to influence governance and leadership at Global Fund for Children, whilst we continue to fundraise for the council.

Sasha, Nasra and Mete met up in Central London to discuss how they felt the council should be shaped, how they can add value to the organisation and what they may need to do to ensure our Global Giving campaign is successful.

Sasha sent this update: 

When Mete, Nasra, and I met we had a very productive discussion regarding the “infrastructural” basics of the Youth Council. As alike thinking individuals, we have managed to agree on several important points. First, about the role of the Youth Council. Ideally, we would prefer to be able to shape (within limits, of course) the politics of the board of trustees. We do believe, that we may be able to find something which has been missed, as young people ourselves. We also do believe that ground work is essential — that we need to speak with some of our grassroots partners to be able to indentify missing spots and opportunities. Logistically, we established that a quarterly meeting should be sufficient in order to proceed with work; and use online methods to keep in touch regularly.

We are looking forward to making the most of upcoming Giving Tuesday and raising further funds for this essential work - 2019 looks set to be an awesome year, bringing youth into the governance of GFC! Keep an eye out for further updates via our page. Thank you, once again, for being a donor to this work.