Interview with the UNCTN SECRETARY GENERAL: ELIJAH MSAGATI

Elijah: A lifetime of Commitment  ..Was Posted HERE on 19th June 2012
on June 19, 2012

Elijah is one of those people animated by the desire to take over the course of his life and put his own stone to the building of the new world on the move. A spark that flickers in her eyes, it gives you a smile.

At 20, he is Secretary General of United Nations Youth Associations (YUNA), soon to graduate, and leads from the front of the campaign promoting the Millennium Development Goals. A young man with big ambitions who has decided to join because it is important to "devote his time to others." By committing to and taking responsibility YUNA, Elijah spends almost three hours a day to fulfill his numerous works in this non-governmental organization (NGO). He is responsible for informing young people of YUNA, of UNclubs, (groups that form and function of the model United Nations and affiliated to the association YUNA, meeting once a week to discuss on various topics) and Others, on the Millennium and brought to their attention the devices that the government is taking to meet them.

Through meetings of heads of YUNA to define their objectives for the new year, on-site meetings with UNclubs which he is secretary general of the preparation of simulated UN meetings called Model United Nations (MUN ), it is performed personally by helping others. End of mind and thought, he continued his work by raising the voice of youth, making handy different routes that can take the young to express themselves, get involved, be part of society and be understood by the adult world, and more, by the government.

Engage in this association allowed him to achieve, gain confidence in him, to open up to others, to find its place, a leader in a new environment, a place he could not find before.

Secretly, he has the ambition to become a filmmaker. But no surprise if in 10 years you hear of Elijah Msagati, general secretary of YUNA either, but the UN: it will be him.

And if he has the opportunity to realize this dream as a filmmaker and buried it does not change the world in 10 years, he helped change the world today. He has managed to score an indelible ink the lives of many young people who now see their present and future life otherwise.

Elijah has not only changed the lives of other young people by engaging, but it also changed the trajectory of his own life by realizing itself.

So you too: made up! Involved!