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Delegates Smiling at the Opening of the UN Global Youth Summit

So I went around with my little point and shoot camera at the beginning of the session and took as many pictures as I could of the Delegates who had traveled to help work on how to implement the 8 UN Millenium Development Goals. You can find Bio's of the delegates at the Website. My color ful friend, Eugine Ngalim Nyuydine in the first picture is from Cameroon and his friends, Hauwa Ashley Umar is from Nigeria and Hama Ould Souvi is from Mauritiania.

View Eugine's Story of working against Violience in Cameroon	Hauwa Ashley Umar of Nigeria Hama Ould Souvi is from Mauritiania	Maguy Mfumu Lemba Christian Banzadio Luzayadio of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sally Maipelo Senai of Botswana and Nelis Kovacevic Naida Kucukalic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Antton Ronnholm and other attendees from Finland	Goldie Scott of Guyana	Luciana Ramsay and Andre Wedderburn of Jamaica	Nannoh T. Seekey of Liberia
Mauritius (I've been there!)	Phikolomzi Mbuqe of South Africa	Sudyumna Dahal of Nepal	Raifa Khneifer of Lebanon
Sheldon Scott of Grenada	Iraq	Malta	Senegal
Adje Kpatagnon Tetteh of Togo	Rotimi Olawale Hauwa Ashley Umar of Nigeria	????	Amel Abd Elfadil Eldihaib    Elradi Eldihaib Abu Sufian Taj Elassfia of Sudan
Omar Armbrister Angelique Sawyer of The Bahamas	Andre Luis Silva Sobrinho of Brazil	China	Abdullahi Abdirahman    Adan Adan of Somalia

Dr. Djibril Diallo Welcomes the Delegates to the Opening Session of the UN Global Youth Summit

Dr. Diallo Address the Assembly in the presence of the Secretary General, Kofi Annan	Ramsey Nukho, Ace Sales Rep from Sun Michelle Kovac, Who ran this project Myself Chris Walter, THE MAN at the UN

Posted at 10:28PM Oct 31, 2006 by anniem in Sun  |  Comments[1]

UN Global Youth Summit ... It's a Wrap !!!

WOW, what can I say, no blogging the last few days, no TIME. OK...so now I have LOTS of pictures and even more VIDEO...is there room on this Blog of all of this?

ACE Unix Guys, Victor Restrepo and Robert Lee and Victor's Sister Myself Ingrid Van Den Hoogen, Sun Sr. Vice President, Brand, Global Communications & Integrated Marketing	Dr. Djibril Diallo helps Serena Williams back to her seat

The Youth Summit was a total success from my vantage point. What a great time, meeting people from all over the world, literally and Dancing in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. Who knew such things happened? But apparently they DO! And it was all for a VERY good cause, Roll Back Malaria. What a Lineup!!! Khaled - BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN! Angelique Kidjo - What a Great Voice and Stage Presence, Yvonne Chaka Chaka - Dancing in the Aisles!! Jy Park - Man can he and his guys perform and dance, Karina Pasian - Did anyone say Mariah??? Beautiful Voice!!! Gordon Chambers - His songs gave me chill bumps and "almost" made me cry!

I invited an old friend, Phil Donaldson, a/k/a Poodyglitz who's into World Music to to join in the fun. What energy and creativity! And it just felt so special to be there, in that room, where all the important world leaders of the last 60 years have met and be a part of it. What a priviledge. Thank you Sun! Thank you Dr. Diallo!

Khalid Sings and the Serena Williams and Delegates Dance...Part 1

Khalid Sings and the Delegates Dance...Part 2

I do have to admit, however, after volunteering in a tent outside the UN bounds for 5 days, I sort of felt like I was living the the security line at the airport.

Posted at 09:41PM Oct 31, 2006 by anniem in Sun  |  Comments[1]