YOURS is officialy launched and would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and an outstanding and safe 2010! At the beginning of this year it is a perfect moment to look back and to have a sneak peak into the future. 2009 was a very succesful year for YOURS.
The fundament is laid and we had a great follow-up on the World Youth Assembly of 2007. Let me sum up the biggest successes: a Youth Taskforce was formed and a beginning of the global youth network has been made. Furthermore we had a major impact on the First Global Ministerial Conference for Road Safety with a Youth Meeting the day before, the adoption of a Youth Declaration and the presence of more than 35 young people, including a youth statement in the opening ceremony together with world leaders.
This lead to the official launch of YOURS as an independent youth-led NGO directly after the Ministerial Conference. At the present time we are building the organizational structure. In 2010 YOURS will have many activities. For example we would like to grow as soon as possble with our Global Youth Network and have partners/members in 100 countries, organize regional youth assemblies, advocate at an international level for our cause and develop/implement road safety workshops for young people. Also we will introduce online member profiles on our website, so we can show the world what young people are doing thermselves to change the current situation. This and many more will make 2010 a busy year, I am ready for it, I hope you too!
In conclusion I would like to thank all of our friends and partners for the succesfull collaboration in 2009, I count on your support for 2010 and you can count on ours!
Happy New Year!