Our project Youth Ambassadors is slowly entering in its final phase. After several months of working and learning together ambassadors, with their mentors, gathered in Fojnica, from October 21st until October 23rd. They gathered in order to use their previous knowledge and experiences to design a series of activities to start and enrich their social engagament and to become more active in BiH society. Ambassadors’ team decided to direct their activities towards raising awareness of young people about dangers of stereotypes and prejudices and negative consequences that they bring. Activities will have cultural and educational character, and they will be realized in offline and online world. Mentorship of Youth for Peace members will be crucial in this phase, to ensure needed support to their ambassadors.

This time, the gathering of ambassadors and mentors was enriched by the presence of Matthew Youde, Associate Director of Global Programs for Youth Leadership Development within URI, who shared his experiences and talked about Youth Ambassadors Programs that are implemented in other countries of the world, and about URI ideas of promotion and encouragement of young leaders. These experiences and advices were useful both for mentors and ambassadors, so the project got additional dimension and its global position like one of the links in the chain of successful young people.