DUTO in the Youth and Celebrities as Changing agents Forum from the IDB

After have been choosen by MTV and the Interamerican Development Bank IDB as one of the 25 Changing Agents, a call for projects that received more than 5000 projects from all around the world back in 2007, DUTO Engineering with a social purpose, have been invited to join the Youth and Celebrities as Changing agents Forum from the IDB that will happen in the 49th Annual Meeting of IDB’s Board of Governors. The Annual meting will be hold in the South Beach’s Convention Center in Miami, Florida, between April 4 and 7 of 2008. In the forum will be shown different successful initiatives in youth development, with key partners as MTV-Latinamerica, Mircrosoft, SES Foundation, the Ibero-American Youth Organization, Ashoka, Generation Engage and the Knight Foundation. Also will be presented I love America, a new communication campaign from the IDB with celebrities of the region that will serve as spokesman of poverty reduction subjects.

On Thursday April 3th, will be open the Governors Meeting with a youth volunteers event, called Piedra, Papel y Tijera (Rock, Paper and Scissors), in a Miami’s hispanic community of low incomes. This event is been organized in cooperation with DIRECTV, Microsoft, and with the help of other partners from the public, private and no government sectors from Miami. In the afternoon, the IDB’s President, Luis A. Moreno, and representants from the different organizations will talk to the participants.

For more information

http://www.duto.org
http://www.iadb.org/bidjuventud
http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF00989D0400170098A3C7/
http://www.mtvagentesdecambio.com/comentarios.php?idea=316