The first Anglophone African Heritage Regional Youth Forum will be held on Robben Island World Heritage site in South Africa during 29th April – 4 May 2016. The forum is intended to provide a sustainable platform to increase the involvement of youth in the promotion and protection of World Heritage in Africa, and also deliver useful feedback to UNESCO, the World Heritage Committee and AWHF on youth challenges, accomplishments and actions related to the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the region. In her video message screened at the opening ceremony on 29 April, Dr Mechtild Rössler, Director of the UNESCO Division for Heritage and the World Heritage Centre, congratulated and encouraged the young participants for active involvement of youth in the promotion and protection of African World Heritage.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1487/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/youth-forum