(YOWS)

Youth Organization of Warrap State

 First Annual Convention

Salt Lake City, Utah

Friday – Monday, May 23-26, 2008

Dear Warrap State Youth (in North America):

With great excitements about the new move our group is about to embark upon, we would like to first send you our heartfelt greetings. We certainly hope that all has been well for each one of you, while enjoying the incredible year of 2008.  As a preliminary note, please bear with us as we attempt to syntactically and explicitly communicate to you what’s intrinsically harbored in this special document. 

Note: Our demographic target is Warrap State Youth in North America.

Twenty plus years of civil unrest in South Sudan have led to constrained human progress in many aspects. Overwhelmed by this famous civil strife in human history, Southern Sudan has been eminently distressed, which nearly brought human society living there to bare survival possibilities. Youths, among others, have been latently victimized to the point of even developing a culture of being regularly passive in discourses that tend to affect them the most. Yet, the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement a few years ago, has miraculously paved the way for potential rejuvenation of the system as well as granting Southern Sudanese youths a voice of collective thought and action.

Of course, the achievement of six-year political autonomy, followed by the formation of its today’s sickly operational civil and political organs is a compelling accomplishment for all southerners. However, the important and most impoverished organs of the government of Southern Sudan, as exhibits by prevailing social structure, are states whose destiny shouldn’t supposedly rest upon the central government but also the individual constituents.

With humanitarian agencies (herein a randomly selected example) creating much systematic and economic dependency upon southern system, many thoughts concerning how this dependency, among many others, is literally burdening the populace, have been formulated by foreign and southern Sudanese experts alike. Various studies and assessments of the existing southern system have indicated much needed investment and upgrade in human development, etc. Similar investigations have also been dedicated to individual states, treating others as reference entities. Related outcomes purport that some states are far better off than others, with those viewed as being typically better off simply epitomizing an anticipated sense of human progress. Some have, in contrast, shown a miserably failing system – with our own being a great example. Nevertheless conceivable and conventional recommendations as they are pertained to these problems regularly get furnished, sometimes in friends’ conversations or even in public forums, such as discussion boards but never really get applied.

As part of this investigational process, the Youths of Warrap State living in North America have decided to implement these comprehensively generated thoughts via an organized institutional Think Tank, or call it a conduit of useful ideas if you will. Warrap State, as its stature currently communicates, is struggling to the extreme, and of course tops the least developed state of all 10 southern states. For we can organizationally and collectively bring change to virtually deserving people of Warrap, formulating a unified voice through an organized social entity was thought to be a grand ideal. This is why a few Warrap State youths sought time to talk over this last December. Thus, this message serves as an important call to every Warrap State youth to in any way possible invest in this cause.

Those observed social disparities, so to speak, have warranted the Interim Board of YOWS to sincerely ask the Warrap state youth who live in North America to get ready for a foundational conference, which is scheduled to take place in May of this very year. We, as an entrusted team with this task, would like to make this event as productive and memorable as possible, hoping to offer the best we possibly can to you all as your civil servants.

Programmatically, the conference will address multiple outstanding issues, with chief emphasis being devoted to development, education, position of Abyei, and the roles of state and youth in establishing socially informed and encompassing structural trajectories. Provided below is the composite of related Agenda, along with the aims.

Aims of the Conference

o       Unite our youth under new state confederation (Warrap)

o       Create lifelong bonds among Warrap state youth

o       Enhance youth social and intellectual development 

o       Improve network among youth

o       Raise awareness about issues that affect our populace–both back home and in the peripheries

o       Act as skills transfer agency

o       Collaborate with local and state governments to ensure human progress back home

o       Act as a developmental think tank

Tentative Agenda

o       Unity among Warrap state youth

o       Educational Development

o       Cultural Development in the peripheries – as an identity

o       Our roles as youth of Warrap towards our state

§         Development (economic, education, and social (gender equity))

§         Roles of state (Warrap) in youth development – youth programs, etcetera

o       The CPA dividends & infrastructure, legal system, returnees, and security current situation – (to be related to by the state official)

o       The CPA and the position of Abyei (to be related to by an invited official from WS), or alternatively, an expert in the area

§         Security and political situation of Abyei

§         Role of Warrap state in Abyei issue

§         Role of youth in Abyei issue

MONEY

Apparently, we can’t do as much without financial support. Based on an estimated cost of this conference, all Warrap state constituents are being urged to contribute financially in any way doable. All citizens of Warrap State are encouraged to give a donation of at least $25 to help make the conference a success.

For more information regarding donations please feel free to contact Miss Awout Aleu Ayieny, the YOWS’ Secretary of Logistics & Finance. Donations may also be directed to the following particulars:

Awout Aleu Ayieny

Cell: (816)304-2299

4107 NE Davidson Rd Apt #398

Kansas City, Mo 64116

A HAPPY ENDING, OR CALL IT A PARTY

The conference will be concluded with terrific modern and cultural dances, all brought to you by Youth Organization of Warrap State (YOWS).  This will take place during the last day of the conference, and all, including non Warrap State citizens, are invited to attend.

For questions or concerns, please contact us.

Sincerely,

Augustino Ting M. Mayai

YOWS Interim Secretary General

(801)792-8242

mayai@wisc.edu