It is my honour to announce that I will be attending the Global Young Greens Conference and World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya mid January 2007.

This is the founding congress of the Global Young Greens and apparently the World Social Forum attracts over 100,000 people.

I have received $500 funding from Australian Greens to attend. I hope to present a workshop, so if anyone has any suggestions of Queensland issues you’d like to see hit the world stage, please let me know.

Although I don’t consider myself ‘young’ anymore, anyone under 35 is welcome to attend the Global Young Greens Conference and I am currently communicating nervously with fellow Greens from around Australia and New Zealand planning flights and accommodation and vaccinations and safety concerns.

While I’m over there, for personal reasons, I hope to visit an orphanage and for FUN reasons I plan to go on a quick wildlife safari.

We will also go on an excursion to one or more NGO projects in the Nairobi area.

We will be sleeping in tents for the duration of the trip and we bring our own mattresses, cushions and sheets. I’ve been told it will be very hot.

Visiting Baxter Detention Centre Convergence in 2005 was a life-changing experience for me. I expect this is going to be equally – if not more – amazing.

I look forward to sharing my stories with you upon my return. Maybe I’ll organise an information-sharing evening or something if enough people are interested.

Please support the Global Young Greens by attending the Bat Cruise Fundraiser this Wednesday evening and asking your organisation to contribute funds to help send young people in need from the Asia Pacific.