AFRICAN GLOBAL HIP-HOP SUMMIT AND CONCERT 1. MESSENGERS OF TRUTH ...
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Sort Desciption: The Hip-Hop Summit and Concert is a regional follow-up to the first Global Hip-Hop ... It forms part of UN-Habitat and Hip-Hop Artist’s ongoing efforts in ...
Content Inside: AFRICAN GLOBAL HIP-HOP SUMMIT AND CONCERT FOR YOUTH UNDER SIEGE A “MESSENGERS OF TRUTH” PROJECT OCTOBER 20 TH - 23 RD , 2005 - JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 1. MESSENGERS OF TRUTH PROJECT – BACKGROUND Using of Hip-Hop as a communication tool, the UN-HABITAT, through the “Messengers of Truth Project”, and in association with Native Rhythms Productions are planning the African Global Hip-Hop Summit and Concert for Youth under Siege, scheduled to take place on October 20 th – 23 rd , 2005 in South Africa. The Hip-Hop Summit and Concert is a regional follow-up to the first Global Hip-Hop Summit and Concert held during the 2 nd World Urban Forum in Barcelona in September 2004. It forms part of UN-Habitat and Hip-Hop Artist’s ongoing efforts in mobilizing and supporting the youth groups to help inform and empower disenfranchised urban youth on the Millennium Development Goals and to help raise funding for youth development initiatives around the world. The Messenger of Truth Project is the UN-Habitat initiative which specifically targets disenfranchised urban youth who constitute up to 60 percent of urban slum dwellers using Hip-Hop and other creative art forms as a communication tool. In many respects, these urban youth are the real victims of their poor living conditions; they have poor access to education, little or no prospects for meaningful jobs and are the most vulnerable in terms of crime, poor health and HIV/AIDS. Lessons learned from best practices around the world show, however, that they can be mobilised and their energies effectively channelled to improving their own living conditions and environment, through a variety of ways including skills training and entrepreneurship development and simple positive messages. UN-HABITAT is the lead UN agency for housing and urban development and is task manager of two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): access to water and sanitation and improving the living conditions of people living in slum ...
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