world and opposite

World and Opposites
The International Youth Forum in Sham el Sheikh organized by Susan Mubarak’s Women’s International Peace Movement, brought together young people from over 100 countries around the world and certain things became obvious.
In Africa, root problems of leadership and poverty has eaten deep into our lives that l wonder if the hope of bridging the North and South divide is possible.
My reasons for feeling this way can easily be traced to the fact that in Zambia almost 85 percent of Zambians live below the World Bank poverty threshold of a dollar a day.
Darfur region of Sudan more than 3.5 million affected and 2 million people displaced by the war.

Yet in this same world in which we exist, two countries have spent 450 Billion Dollars on the war in Iraq but l ask. But l wonder what would have happened if this money was spent on development in Iraq, Sudan and Liberia.
Why we create new problems in the world when we have not solved the root problems that exist in South America, in Africa and Asia.
My focus: SOLVE ROOT PROBLEMS BEFORE FOCUSING ON ITS FRUITS.
I feel we are in a lost world and am sure that this is not about me but about that child in Darfur who has not eaten today and would have a better health if given half the subsidy that is allocated of American or European cows. The young lady in Iraq who is not sure that she would be alive by the end of today, the child solder turn civilian in Liberia who is lost and confused about what would happen to him next and millions of children who die of malaria and HIV/AIDS every year. The view should move from me to us(the whole world at large)
The world today has a lot of suffering as a result of conflict, lack of dialogue, terrorism, wisdom of weapon as compared to wisdom of peace.

It’s time to mobilize the youths, the celebrities, the politicians, the private sector and the public sector to realize that it is becoming ‘cool’ to promote peace and development.
The Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) has failed us all it’s time to adopt the Wisdom of Peace (WP).
There is a beauty and uniqueness about being a young person and it creates magic, even when the system does not work, even when the challenges are great.
Don’t be a penguin whose life depends solely on eating fish and being with other penguins only. Do something today. Be the magic of your country
Thank You
EwaJesu Asala

My Desert Experience

On the 31st of August l left lagos Nigeria for Sham el Sheik for the International Youth Conference and the first thing that struck me about egyptians is their jovial nature.

Right from the crew members of Egypt air in Nigeria to the ones in cairo it was a beautiful encounter all through which is quite contrary to what l use to believ about arab countries.


The passion and desert experience shows the beauty and the natural force associated with the desert and its people which shares a similar attribute with young people around the world.

l was extremly glad when it was announced that l was the prize winner for the Cyber Peace Contest Theme: Youth Dialogue. I owe the Susan Mubarak International Women's Peace Movement my beautiful wide screen Laptop which was the 1st prize.l felt like Alice in Wonderland yesterday...so many pictures and interviews by various media oganisation at the conference.

Today's experience at the youth and media session where we examined the topic 'Is the Media Youth Friendly' showed very clearly that young people have a lot of work to do to change and reverse the current distructive trend around the world

Young people can create majic and l hope that when I represent Africa at teh plenary closing ceremony I would be able to shed that enthusiastic light on the majic that young people have.

I love everything I have seen of Egypt