African Youth Petition

We the representatives of the youth in Central, Western, Eastern and Southern African Union/Organisations/Associations of the blind having gone through an intensive three-day training and appreciating work of AFUB towards promoting the youth agenda are:

1. Concerned that the AFUB constitution has not established a youth wing or a youth department in the AFUB constitution;
2. Worried of the fact that some member organisations of blind and partially sighted do not allow new leadership and democratic process;
3. Further concerned that some member organizations do not constitutionally recognize a youth wing;

We therefore, petition AFUB board and AFUB 9^th General Assembly:

1. That AFUB Board discusses and considers the need to establish a Youth Wing of AFUB and tables a memorandum for constitutional amendment at the AFUB General Assembly to that effect;
2. That the assembly considers to constitutionally established youth wing of AFUB;
3. That the national organizations that do not have youth wings should as a matter of urgency, be encouraged to establish one;
4. That democratic practices in leadership transition should be encouraged;
5. That emergence of new leaders should be encouraged;
6. That the unions should be encouraged to strengthen the youth activities in the unions;
7. That the national members should be encouraged to introduce initiatives of interest to the young people to encourage them to be members.

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