United Nations Youth Assembly Conference, New York - 2010

SHARE founder Shannon McNamara promoted youth involvement to 600 youth delegates from around the world at the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation's Seventh Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.  The 3-day conference, titled "Tomorrow's Leaders Today," was held August 4th-6th, 2010. 

Shannon spread awareness of SHARE's efforts in supporting the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with particular interest in Goal #3, "to promote gender equality and empower women". 

"Teen's efforts to help girls in Africa put her in the global spotlight: Basking Ridge girl receives award at U.N.", Sunday Star Ledger, August 8, 2010

The Youth Assembly at the United Nations gathers youth leaders (16-24 years old) from around the world and involves them in the achievement of the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG's).

The Youth Assembly provides youth leaders from around the world the opportunity to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and to discover Social Entrepreneurship as a vehicle for peace.

The Youth Assembly empowers nearly one thousand young people annually through lectures, workshops, and other special events. Attendees receive practical help on how to start NGOs, administer or manage campaigns, and identify existing work by governments, the UN, or civil society at home or abroad. There is a special focus on the implications for social entrepreneurship on MDG success.