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Since their inception in January 2006, Iris Women CC, a group of Jordanian women locally rooted in their
commitment to help the community, has been working to organize activities to bring people
together, from all walks of life and of all ages, to promote peace and intercultural understanding. This sometimes means
attending youth events, as many members did, last December and this June, at the National Youth Federation Initiative Meetings.
The two meetings, which drew youth from thirty-five countries in the Europe and Mediterranean, were the beginning of a coordinated approach by the *Euro-Med Youth Platform
to encourage youths to form "youth federations" in their respective countries, empowering them to become involved with youth in their own communities, as well as
bonding them closely to their Euro-Med neighbors.
According to Dima Zanouneh,
an Iris Women CC member, “we have stressed on the importance of youths’ role in
societies and on the importance of growing in a healthy and a dynamic
atmosphere in order to give them the right space of expressing themselves.”
Participants in the December meeting
were handed tools and concrete actions for pursuing the development of NTFs, and
also heard many stories from youth who had already paved the way. A follow-up
meeting six months later in Malta,
from June 4-8, 2008, helped youth who had started the process and provided a
place for brainstorming new ideas.
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