The National Youth Project

 

Vision:

Enabling youth to participate in the advancement of Kuwait’s future vision and its strategic and developmental goals.

Strategic Goals:

The project seeks to achieve the following goals:

  1. Creating communication channels between the political leadership and youth groups.
  2. Developing positive participation methods for youth in society issues.
  3. Upgrading youth capabilities and skills and reinforcing their contribution to national unity.
  4. Identifying youth ambitions and aspirations and developing ways to enhance these ambitions.
  5. Identifying concerns and challenges facing youth in order to find appropriate solutions for them.
  6. Engaging youth and seeking their views in government programs and development plans.
  7. Preparing and qualifying promising future youth leadership to proceed with the development process.
  8. Encouraging youth initiatives and inciting them to innovation and work in a democratic society.
  9. Strengthening the national Kuwaiti identity, developing national cohesion, combating radicalism and fanaticism, and abandoning group sectarian, and tribal divisions among youth.
  10. Bolstering the democratic and constitutional culture, reinforcing tolerance and diversity of views and opinions among youth.
  11. Encouraging freedom of expression, laying the foundations of communication ethics and respecting individual opinions

 Priorities that were set by Preparatory Youth Council.

Connect with the National Youth Project below:

Click [here] for their  website.

ExpatVoices: Good vision set here by the Government of Kuwait – Empowering the Youth of Kuwait in the country’s future goals. With the youth today, we have charisma, ambitions, vitality, passions, energy and spirits. They are more flexible towards change and are open-minded. The government can definitely harness and channel their unique qualities and skills towards a growth-oriented, educated, modern and advanced society. Best wishes to the National Youth Project in their vision and we hope by these initiatives, our future generations bring us more prosperity and goodness to this country.

Catch the conversation by Youth on TED [link] (Ideas worth spreading)

“Much of the Middle East revolutions were spearheaded by youths. Their reason for doing so is for their future, which at that point of time was not particularly bright. So they were forced to take charge and act, or live yet another generation of poverty.” - Shiyong Pow

American makeup professional talks about life in Kuwait!

Life in Kuwait!

[YouTube]

Tons of people that are new to my channel have been asking me, what the heck are you doing in Kuwait?! I thought it would be great to re-introduce the newbies to why I am here and what I do!

So many of you know when I started doing YouTube videos I had just began to explore makeup professionally, I had been living in Hawaii and was working for MAC Cosmetics. Shortly after I moved back to Los Angeles, I began freelancing as a makeup artist on my own and continued my duty as a US Army Reservist. And then a friend of mine got a job here in Kuwait and I sent in my resume and got the job! The company I work for is an American aviation company and we work WITH the US military. That’s all that needs to be said about what I do, no disclosing the company name or my salary, so please do not ask!

Click [here] to read the whole article.

ExpatVoicesWanna connect with other Americans in Kuwait?

Check them out on Facebook [here

& here Americans in Kuwait Facebook Group - A Networking Hub for all Americans in Kuwait

Cuban band “Sonoridad Cubana” in Kuwait

SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION OF THE SEPTET “SONORIDAD CUBANA” AT CUBA’S GALA

The Gala dedicated to Cuba at National Auditorium Theatre Museum of Kuwait, under the International Music Festival, has underlined the unforgettable performance of the Septet “Sonoridad Cubana“. In the presence of Secretary General of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, Mr. Ali Hussain Al Youha, accompanied by Cuban Ambassador, Mr. Manuel Pardinas Ajeno, Cuban culture was worthily represented by the actions of this group from Las Tunas region.

To the delight of the audience were performed the best known songs from the traditional repertoire, like “Chan Chan”, “Arrullo de Palmas”, “Tus cositas mami” and “El cuarto de Tula” among others. For the first time a Cuban musical group of such acts in Kuwait.

The audience that packed the theater was surprised when a group of Kuwaiti musicians, who with their strings and percussion instruments joined the Cubans and performed two songs among which could not miss the famous Guantanamera which was also echoed by all present. This initiative of the National Council gave the Cuban Gala a hallmark of how music can unite different cultures. The rhythms intermingled, producing a “hand in hand” among percussionists that encouraged by the reception and applause from the audience, gave their best to enrich the show.

Kuwaiti cultural personalities, senior leaders of the National Council, a broad representation of the diplomatic corps in the country, Kuwaiti and Latino residents in the emirate, vibrated to the rhythm of Cuban music over more than an hour-long activity.

Click [here] to contact Embassy of Cuba in Kuwait

 

Click [here] The Organization of Latinas Residents in Kuwait (OLEK)