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A big thank you and congratulations to everyone who has been involved in creating this new partnership and we look forward to seeing the continued improvement of the lives of those in Uganda! To read more about the work of our Ugandan volunteers please click here.
'You Are Amazing!' WYI Book Launch
 "You Are Amazing!" celebrates the amazing work of World Youth International and the difference our organization has made in the lives of children all over the world. It is an acknowledgement and dedication to everyone who has been involved with WYI over the past 20 years and a celebration of all that we have achieved.
A group of dedicated volunteers have been working tirelessly over the past 12 months to compile the book which is filled with inspiring stories from past volunteers, staff members, team leaders, fundraisers, and many more remarkable people! The book will make a fantastic gift to anyone in your life you want to recognize as 'amazing' and will be a truly inspiring read. Every purchase you make of "You Are Amazing" will go directly towards assisting young people have a better life.
"You Are Amazing" - 132 pages
RRP: $40.00
All proceeds go directly to World Youth International
For more information on how to purchase a copy please contact the office on (08) 8340 1266 or email us. We thank you in advance for your generosity!
World Youth International and Facebook Unite
One click of a button can now connect you with an entire network of enthusiastic WYI members! Facebook is the new craze taking over the cyber world and has fantastic benefits for people wanting to keep in touch with their extended networks. The creation of the WYI Facebook page has now extended to include groups for both the Sydney and Melbourne Alumni who are taking our amazing organization to the next level! Both groups are aimed at working closely with WYI members in their respective states in order to allow a forum for discussion on anything WYI related. For more inforamtion on the WYI facebook groups and how to get involved please click here.
WYI Past Volunteer turns Team Leader
Danielle Robst was a participant on a Nepal Overseas Action Program in 2005. Since this time, Danielle has been a committed and passionate supporter of World Youth International and has raised many thousands of dollars for children in Nepal. We are pleased to welcome Danielle as the Team Leader for the 2008 November 10 week Overseas Action Program to Nepal and wish her the best of luck.
Danielle was featured in her local paper the Port Lincoln Times on August the 7th, 2008. WYI is very proud of her commitment to changing the lives of those less fortunate and would like to share her story with you.
 Click here to read the article
Library to Provide Much Needed Resources
 There is great excitement in Adelaide and Kisumu at the moment as the long awaited library for Nyamasaria primary school (1200 students) is now underway and is expected to be completed within the next month or two. Much work has gone into achieving this and a group of skilled leadlighters have for some years been making small items (angels, stars, hearts) for lovely friends of World Youth International to sell in schools, shops and other outlets. After two classrooms, a few thousand secondhand story books (kindly donated, collected and delivered from around Adelaide and interstate) and a good number of bookshelves, the group finally got together enough money for the library and are all very excited about it. All items are made with donated coloured glass and it will continue to be an ongoing project as thousands more books are needed to stock the library as well as the money to post them.
The photograph is of regular Tuesday afternoon volunteer leadlighters (Chris, Paula and Sallie) working in Sallie's Studio. Examples of their leadlight hearts and stars are on the wall as well as angels in the making on the bench. Congratulations and thanks goes to everyone who has made this project possible!
Upcoming Events... Get your Diary Ready!
20 Years of WYI Celebration!
We have great pleasure in inviting you to help us celebrate WYI's 20th Birthday with a cocktail evening to be held on the 22nd October at Wheaton House, Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide. 
The evening will include live African and Latin-American music, great wines from St. Antoinne and Pirramimma plus delicious finger food.
Tickets are $25 per person with the evening commencing at 6:00pm and concluding at 8:30pm. This will be a great opportunity to celebrate WYI's work over the past 20 years, reunite with program participants and various WYI personnel - past and present, and for those less familiar with the organization to gain a greater insight into the operations of WYI ... so come along and join the party!
Be sure to purchase your tickets quickly as numbers are limited! Click here to purchase online, or ring the office on (08) 8340 1266.
Jazz in the Park 2009!
Advance notice....our 10th annual "Jazz in the Park" will be held in Adelaide on Friday 6th February, 2009. This event promises to be bigger and better than ever, so put the date in your diary now!
Volunteers Insight
Would you like an insight into the reactions, feelings and emotions of a volunteer on a WYI program? Blake Nuto, previous WYI participant, tells of his first experiences in Peru in this very moving recount.
A thought to leave you with...
Lifetime value in volunteering...
Brian Loffler, one of our friends at the New Internationalist Co-op has provided us with this wonderful thought:
"I was riding home in the bus the other night with tears brimming in my eyes. But it wasn't that I'd had a rotten day. These were actually tears of joy, and what prompted them made me think of you and your teams of volunteers at World Youth International. Let me explain. I was reading a wonderful new book by Grameen Foundation founding member and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus. Yunus is famous for his development of micro-credit schemes, but in the book he describes his next big idea, the implementation of social business. One of his first social business ventures is to produce yogurt for millions of impoverished people in Bangladesh through a partnership between Grameen and Danone. The success of the scheme depended heavily on the commitment of the Danone management team to making it work. My tears of joy came when Yunus described that the Danone's executive vice-president for Asia Pacific who would lead the project, had been a volunteer in Chile and India some twenty years prior. With that background he was totally committed to making the Grameen Danone social business a success. To me that was such a powerful reminder of the huge contribution global volunteering can make, not just currently, but in the future, when returned volunteers take up positions of power and responsibility and determine that directions taken by corporations and non-profits alike. So keep up the great work at World Youth International."
You can buy Yunus' inspiring book from the New Internationalist online shop - www.newint.com.au/shop | 
A word from our Head Office...
Inspiring, overwhelming, motivational and emotional...these are just a few words used to describe participation in this year's annual WYI Leadership Development Program (LDP). The LDP event is designed to bring together past participants from WYI overseas volunteer programs as well as other passionate youth and equip them with the skills and knowledge in taking the "Next Step" into life and their individual ventures. Every year the event exceeds participants' expectations and this year was no different. To read a personal account of the event, please 
It's that time again... World Youth International is proud to announce the release date of the 2008/09 WYI Gift Catalogue! After the AMAZING success of the Gift Catalogue in its inaugural year, the WYI Fundraising Committee has been working hard in order to create a catalogue that will have an even BIGGER impact on the lives of children and families living in Kenya and Nepal.
