A new breed of African youth leaders is emerging through African YMCAs – youth willing to stand up as citizens in their countries and our continent. The recent Africa YMCA Youth Summit focused on building the civic competence of youth participants to enable personal leadership development which is rooted in community responsibility and action.

Using the ‘Subject to Citizen’ (S2C) model, 50 participants from 12 African YMCA movements underwent an intensive transformation at the Youth Summit, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 28 October – 5 November 2009. S2C Ambassadors are now active in their country YMCAs in gathering support for S2C and will be responsible for the roll out of this exciting youth-driven initiative. Read more about this on the Summit blog.