OCTOBER 20TH - 23RD, 2005 - JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

The Summit and Concert forms part of the UN-Habitat and Hip-Hop Artist’s ongoing efforts in mobilizing and supporting youth groups to help inform and empower disenfranchised urban youth on the Millennium Development Goals. The summit will help raise awareness and funding needed in support of local youth development initiatives which include:

• reducing abject poverty and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS by half by 2015,
• promoting universal access and awareness to health and education,
• empowering the youth and creating young entrepreneurs
• improving the living conditions of at least 300 million slum dwellers by 2020

The Summit and Concert will feature committed artists from Africa, North and South America, Europe and Asia, and it is envisaged that more than 40, 000 people will attend the concert. The artists have been chosen based on their commercial success as well as their dedication to community/social upliftment and youth development projects and have been selected from the following regions:

- USA and Canada = 3 artists
- East Africa = 2 artists
- West Africa = 2 artists
- Southern Africa = 3 artists
- Rest of the World = 3 artists

Click here to download the Summit Brief (PDF Format)

UPDATE: Download the Summit and Concert Programme [FINAL VERSION]

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