Fanny (miss 2004) has a strong desire to work with youth

By: fanny Tamegnon - Miss Africa Canada 2004

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With a strong desire to work with the Youth and help make our generation better, I think God heard my prayer and blessed me with that. I`ve become the Coordinator of `TeenZ `N Action``, a youth group in Calgary. It was a learning curve for me as well as the Youth. Some key highlights about what we’ve done last year: With the Youth we’ve fundraised and some of us over 18 were able to go to the World Youth Day in Germany in August. I’ve approached many local restaurants that made some donations. The importance of having a Youth Group and wanting the Youth to join was for me to help them grow spiritually as well as they get to share their experience and walk proud on the Streets to be who they are. So, I have 10 who are committed and are regularly there. When I have the opportunity to talk to some of them, whether at the Train Station, the bus Station: I try to do it. Because I often find that nowadays too many of the youth are walking in life with no purpose. Especially many immigrants youth try so badly too fit in that they would literally reject their own identity. So when we have events (more of them come) That warms up my heart because I’ll rather have them at basketball tournaments, talent shows that we do than them being on the streets smoking and things like that. We even had once a freestyle night which revealed to some of them things they could do. They also get to go and see what happen in other youth group. Few months ago, we came with an official name: `TeenZ `N Action``. The talent Show that we organized in February was called ``Worship Him N Action``. This was to help them acknowledge the gifts they have first and also allow them to share it with other youth. For mothers Day, They brought the idea of selling cards and God blessed us to find a cheap site on the internet we ordered it from: A lot friends participated and we sold it for (1 for $3.00 and 2 for $5.00). We raised $150.00. We’ve also gone to help the Poor in the Community to feed them at the Calgary Drop In Center so they get to see, live and experience some harsh realities of the society. Some of them even cried that day. We’ve started what is called `youth Talks` where one pick a topic and shared it with other and relate it to them in their personal life and experience.