Welcome to the last edition of the AYLF-Uganda newsletter for 2021, it has been an exhilarating year. Our theme for this edition is “Leveraging Youthfulness”. As AYLF we believe that for any meaningful change to happen in our world, young people need to be engaged not as beneficiaries but key participants and contributors across all goals and targets. All effort must be made to bring young people to the fore in the development of society especially the young leaders because youth is synonymous with creativity, hope, passion, resilience, energy and a desire to learn. These ideas permeated our 2021 AYLF-Gathering and we share some highlights and key addresses in this newsletter. As 2021 comes to an end, we know that our challenges as a country, a region and young people are not behind us yet. We hope that the words shared here from both our mentors and fellow young leaders will anchor us as we continue into next year. Hope to see you in 2022 still dreaming and leading.
Don’t wait to be anything else or anybody else. The struggle for whatever you want to see change begins right where you are.” – RT.HON JACOB.L.OULANYAH

