KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The summit is host to a number of international and local keynote speakers. The speakers include environmentalists, human right advocates and young people working with HIV/AIDS. There are many people out in the world making their little bit of difference and at the summit we share their experiences.

2009
An extract about Thom Henley at the 2009 summit in Uganda.
" He has spent years living with and learning about a tribe in Indonesia. In their soceity every person is completely equal. Newborn infants receive exactly the same amount of food as everyone else. Since they arent going to eat it, people would come up to the baby and ask if they could have some of the baby's food. When Henley asked why they didnt just give the baby less, they responded " How could you ever treat someone less because of their size?'" (http://www.thomhenley.com/)

Jane Goodall also shared her life long passion with us...... When asked to describe herself in one word, she responded "Hopeful". (www.janegoodall.org)


2010

The next year we listened to and the students were incredibly inspired by Kimmie Weeks (www.peaceforkids.org) When he was 9 years old he came face to face with civil war, human suffering and death. His story is about how he has worked to alleviate poverty and human suffering in Africa.

Austin Gutwein learned of the phlight of a HIV/AIDS orphans through his correspondence with his pen pal in Africa and after watching a video. He began raising money to assist when he was 9 years old by doing something as simple as shooting free throws. (www.hoopsofhope.org)

Hammerskjoeld Simwinga has changed the lives of more than 35,000 Sambian villagers by replacing illegal incomes (from poaching and bush meat), with legal alternatives such as, beekeeping, sunflower oil processing and fish farming. (www.goldmanprize.org)

DONT MISS SOME INSPIRING SPEAKERS IN 2011!