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"For GYAN, my portfolio is Africa Regional Coordinator, coordinating the Regional Activities with a dedicated team of dynamic youth. The UNFF work includes compiling and ensuring youth and children input is integral to the UNFF (the place where governments of the world discuss all forests related issues-including sustainable forest managment and making sure that indigenous people maintain thier rights to land, cultural identity and heritage) I am proudly the member of the Board of Directors for an NGO working on HIV/AIDS issues, pioneered by a Doctor from Harvard, Dr. John Chittick. he travels the world (has trained over 80 000 youth about HIV/AIDS) and has dedicated his life (and his salary-when he draws one) to the cause of saving teenagers from AIDS. check them out at: www.teenaids.org " So they say: In 2000 Pierre Mark Andipatin was elected Youth Mayor of the City of Durban (South Africa). The tasks included: Coordinating the Durban Youth Council (100+ schools) Liaising with the City Administration and... Fulfilling other project tasks while... visiting schools and promoting the civic involvement of youth. After his term in office ended (mid 2001), Pierre began liaising with the United Nations Secretariat to discuss the possibility of creating a Youth Assembly at the United Nations. In 2001, he began mobilizing an informal network of youth accross Africa and created the Global Youth Network, aimed at consolidating youth efforts at the international level. He now works with the new york based Global Youth Action Network, from Durban. In addition Pierre volunteers as a member of the OXFAM International Youth Parliament International Steering Committee. Today, Pierre works with youth, has completed a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Law at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Howard College and works toward greater self awareness.
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