Press Release British Council Global Changemakers 2010

Two Indonesians selected to attend Global Youth Summit in London

September 2010 - Niesrina Nadhifah (16) and M. Iman Usman (18) will attend the Global Youth Summit in London from November 22-27. The two Indonesians have been selected from over a thousand young people from all over the world. The sixty selected participants will spend a week sharing best practices in the areas of human rights, climate change, poverty reduction, education, HIV/AIDS, and social entrepreneurship.

The new Changemakers will share best practices on activism, and work together with experts and other young social activists on how to best address the issues they are facing on the ground in their home country.

The Latin America Youth Summit is part of the British Council’s Global Changemakers initiative. Global Changemakers is a global network of a select group of young who have a significant track record as social entrepreneurs, social activists and volunteers (ages 16-25). They meet to share ideas and best practices, and work individually and together on projects that directly impact the lives of those in their local communities. In addition, each year, a select group of Global Changemakers is chosen to participate in high-level political and economic events, to act as advocates and to raise decision-makers’ awareness of key issues on the global agenda.

Founded at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2007, Global Changemakers has partnered with, and participated in, World Economic Forum events (in Davos, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Cartagena, Dar-es-Salaam and Cape Town), the Clinton Global Initiative, the Global Humanitarian Forum, UN W-CCIII and the G20.Individual supporters include HM Queen Rania, Al-Abdullah of Jordan, President Bill Clinton, and the actress Emma Thompson.

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- For more information or questions, please contact :

Katherine Hermans, Head of Communications, Global Changemakers.

M +41 78 693 87 75

E katherine.hermans@britishcouncil.org

The British Council is the UK’s international body for cultural relations. We build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people worldwide.

We are registered in the UK as a charity. For more information, please visit: www.britishcouncil.org or www.global-changemakers.net.